SOCIAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY

Stefano Civitarese Matteucci is Professor of Public Law at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.Simon Halliday is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of York, UK, and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsTable of casesPART I Introduction1 Social rights, the Welfare State and European austerityStefano Civitarese Matteucci and Simon Halliday PART II European case studies2 FranceDiane Roman3 GermanyUlrike Lembke4 ItalyAlessandra Albanese5 SpainDolores Utrilla6 UKJed Meers7 Austerity, conditionality and litigation in six European nationsMichael Adler and Lars Inge TerumPART III Theoretical discussions8 Should a minimum income be unconditional?Stuart White9 The social dimension of fundamental rights in times of crisisFrancesco Ferraro10 Social rights and welfare reform in times of economic crisisJeff King11 The political economy of European social rightsEmilios Christodoulidis and Marco Goldoni12 Economic crisis and territorial assymetrical effects on the guarantee of social rights within the European Economic and Monteary Union (EMU)Francesco Bilancia13 Free movement of persons and transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU): a melancholic eulogyStefano GiubboniIndex