The Governance of EU Fundamental Rights

Mark Dawson has been Professor of European Law and Governance at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin since 2012. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence in 2009 and has been a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Harvard Kennedy School. His recent publications include New Governance and the Transformation of European Law (Cambridge, 2011) and Beyond the Crisis (with Henrik Enderlein and Christian Joerges, 2015). He has written peer-reviewed articles for both law and political science journals, including the European Law Journal, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review and the Journal of Common Market Studies.

• Introduction; 1. Critiquing and theorising the governance of EU fundamental rights; 2. The Court of Justice in the governance of EU fundamental rights; 3. Fundamental rights and the political institutions; 4. Governing justice and the rule of law; 5. Governing fundamental social rights; 6. Epilogue - accession, asylum and the politics of human rights.