Direct Effect in EU Law

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Professor Gallo's book takes on the monumental task of analysing direct effect across its different manifestations, ranging from EU external relations to fundamental rights and from vertical to horizontal and incidental forms of direct effect. In so doing, it succeeds admirably in providing the most comprehensive and systematic analysis to date of this paradigmatic EU law classic * Eleni Frantziou, Associate Professor in Public Law & Human Rights, Durham Law School * This book takes up in a brilliant manner the huge challenge of dissecting the doctrine of direct effect, one of the more difficult and yet more crucial and fascinating issues in EU Law. Systematic, thorough, and thought provoking, Gallo's book is bound to become not only a reference book, but an unmissable classic for the EU Law discipline. * Sara Iglesias Sanchez, Professor of EU Law, Complutense University of Madrid * This book provides the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of one of the key tools of EU law. Unparalleled in its scope, the book is the must-go reference for anyone interested in the use of EU law in the practice of national courts. * Daniel Sarmiento, Professor of EU law, Complutense University of Madrid, and Editor-in-Chief of EU Law Live * Daniele Gallo drives readers of this book through a magnificent journey, aimed at discovering direct effect in its multifaceted, ever changing and ever challenging functions and meanings. EU law is as lively as ever for those who take this journey. * Silvana Sciarra, Professor Emerita, University of Florence, and Former President of the Italian Constitutional Court * This is an excellent and original monograph, casting new light on a classic concept. The author unpacks direct effect through a theoretically sound and convincing analysis of the case law. * Takis Tridimas, Professor of EU Law and Director of the Centre of European Law, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London *