The Evolution of EU Law

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This book has been a must and a classic in EU law scholarship since the first edition 1999. This third edition is not only updated to the latest developments in written law and jurisprudence, it includes new chapters on the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and the Evolution of Data Law - including Artificial Intelligence. With 27 contributors from different European countries the book gives not only constant food for thought, it offers a very comprehensive knowledge base on institutional and substantive law as well as legal theory issues. A tour de force of breadth, depth and expertise. * Jacques Ziller, Professor of EU law, Universities of Pavia, Italy, and Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France * This book is a logical - and almost necessary - "further reading" for anybody educated in EU law by Paul Craig and Grainne De Burca's widely-used textbook. Seasoned practitioners and academics should read it as well, however, as it provides an authoritative guide to the discipline, which has evolved dramatically since the previous edition was published. All crises and challenges to the EU and its legal order are covered, together with more traditional topics concerning the key areas of EU law. Written by a balanced mix of theory- and practice-oriented scholars, of both the younger and older generation, this book will continue to be a standard reference point for anybody who wants to understand EU law. * Jan Komarek, Professor of EU law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * This important collection of essays on the continuing 'evolution' of EU law reaches us at a time of intensive reflection on the European Union. The ambition of the book reflects both the extraordinary span of EU legal development over the past decade and the challenging wider context within which it has happened, imprinted with the urgency produced by recurring instances of crisis. Each contribution provides, on its own, rich coverage of and insights into specific sectors or themes. Cohering all of these perspectives within one resource is the editors' impressive achievement. * Niamh Nic Shuibhne, Professor of European Union Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK * This long-awaited third edition comes at a critical time for the European Union and EU law scholarship: never has a historical and evolutionary perspective been more important in explaining the origins and purposes of the Union as well as where the Union is and ought to be going. The "Evolution of EU Law" here offers an invaluable compass that masterfully guides its readers through the deep and often tumultuous waters of the Union's constitutional and substantive law. * Robert Schuetze, Professor of European and Comparative Law, Durham University, UK and Luiss, Rome, Italy * Review from previous edition This is a serious, comprehensive exploration of the understanding of EU law as it has developed. * Edward Kirke, Liverpool John Moores University * This volume, like many books of its kind, poses more questions than it has answers for, but the answers it suggests are crucial, seminal and riveting to anyone interested in why a nation or a corporate body has a constitution. ... the editors have done a masterly job in weaving together crucial research and opinion on such issues as comitology, delegated agencies, tertiary structures in general and the enumeration and control of them. The heavy intellectualism of this book should not obscure the luminosity of its arguments, which, after all, remain easy to understand. * Michael L Nash, Contemporary Review, December 1999 Page 322 * ...an excellent collection of strong and thought-provoking contributions...an extremely accessible account of the story of EU law. * T.K. Hervey, University of Nottingham, European Public Law *