Research Handbook on EU Institutional Law

Edited by Adam Łazowski, Professor of EU Law, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, UK and Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Natolin, Poland and Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine and Steven Blockmans, Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Head of EU Foreign Policy, CEPS, Belgium

• IntroductionAdam Łazowski and Steven BlockmansPART I FOUNDATIONS, COMPETENCES AND ACTORS1. Constitutional Foundations and EU Institutional Framework: Six Years of Working with Lisbon ReformAdam Łazowski and Steven Blockmans2. Competences: Codification and ContestationMonica Claes and Bruno De Witte 3. New Dynamics in EMU Decision-making in the Wake of the European Financial and Sovereign Debt CrisisKees van Duin and Fabian Amtenbrink4. National Parliaments as Guardians of the Principle of SubsidiarityAdam Cygan 5. European Agencies: What about the Institutional BalanceMichelle Everson and Ellen VosPART II DEMOCRACY AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS6. The Democratic Foundations of the Union: Representative Democracy, Complementarity and the Legal Challenge of Article 11 TEUJoana Mendes 7. Transparency in the EU: Constitutional Overtones, Institutional Dynamics and the Escape Hatch of SecrecyDeirdre Curtin and Maarten Hillebrandt8. Fundamental Rights Protection in the Legal order of the European UnionMartin Kuijer PART III: JUDICIAL ARCHITECTURE9. EU Judiciary in Need of Reform?Tamara Ćapeta10. Judicial Review in EU law: A Post-Lisbon PerspectiveSaulius Lukas Kalėda 11. Financial Penalties for Non-execution of Judgments of the Court of JusticeAlicja Sikora12. The Court of Justice, the National Courts, and the Spirit of Cooperation: between Dichtung and WarheitMichal Bobek PART IV ENFORCEMENT OF EU LAW13. Five Decades Since Van Gend and Costa Came to Town: Primacy and Indirect Effect RevisitedAgata B. Capik14. National Procedural Autonomy: Concept, Practice and Theoretical QueriesMatej Avbelj 15. Liability for Breach of EU Law by the Union, Member States and Individuals: Damages, Enforcement and effective Judicial ProtectionKathleen GutmanConclusionsAdam Łazowski and Steven BlockmansIndex

'Steven Blockmans and Adam Lazowski edit the Handbook and author the first chapter. Other authors address (for example) EU competence issues (Claes and de Witte), national parliaments and subsidiarity (Cygan), the need for reform of the EU judiciary (Capeta), and preliminary rulings (Bobek). Overall the approach is analytical and critical, pulls no punches, and does not hesitate to address key contemporary debate around the legitimacy of the EU project, and its institutions. This is the right book at the right time, and a ''must-have'' for those engaged in advanced study, research or the teaching of EU law.'