European Union Law of state aid

This is a comprehensive work for practitioners on the law of State aids in the European Union, and is accessible to practitioners who do not specialise in competition law, as well as being a reference book for competition lawyers. The book discusses all of the ...

Joint ventures and shareholders' agreements

Joint Ventures and Shareholders' Agreements concentrates on private joint venture companies established by two or more corporates. It offers a one-stop general guide to the issues relevant in structuring and negotiating agreements between two or more shareholders in any type of private company, be they ...

Revisión de actos administrativos nacionales en Derecho administrativo europeo

La finalidad de este libro es analizar la influencia del Derecho de la Unión Europea sobre un aspecto del régimen jurídico de los actos administrativos internos: la revisión de oficio. El libro examina en particular el grado de adecuación del Derecho interno a las exigencias ...

Estabilidad presupuestaria y consagración del freno constitucional al endeudamiento

La complejidad y lentitud de los mecanismos de reacción de la Unión Europea frente a la imponente crisis económica y financiera hacen que no sea extraño preguntarse sobre su eficacia. Además, en un Estado compuesto como el nuestro, algunos postulan volver al viejo centralismo con ...

Normas comunitarias básicas

Construcción europea y teledemocracia

ÍNDICE. LOS VALORES JURÍDICOS DE EUROPA 1. La integración europea y sus aporías actuales 2. Las paradojas de la identidad europea 3. El debate sobre Europa en la cultura española 4. La identidad cultural europea 5. Los valores jurídicos de Europa 6. Los valores europeos ...

The Euro

the beginning, the middle and the end ...?

At the outset of the euro, there was strong opposition to Britain's participation from most free-market economists. However, economists took more nuanced positions with regards to participation by the majority of current euro zone member states. Indeed, continental free-market economists were generally supportive of ...

European Human Rights Law. A manual

an introduction to the Strasbourg Court and its jurisprudence

European human rights law is a body of law which has emerged from the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. Besides the Convention, its sources also encompass the soft-law of the Council of Europe and recently the ever-growing practice of the Committee of ...

EU energy Law and policy

a critical account

A critical overview of European Union energy law and policy, this book takes a law-in-context approach as it examines the development of EU energy law from the 1950s to the present day. It discusses the development of EU energy law; the application of general EU ...

Competition of legal systems and harmonization of european private Law

new paths in comparative perspective

This volume provides essays on fundamental rights, on European and Italian contract law, and on the lawyer’s role in contemporary society being the result of research carried out from a lawyer’s perspectiv* in recent years. As fundamental rights are the same principles upon ...

Administrative Law in Europe

between common principles and national traditions

n the various European countries, debates on the ransformation of administrative law are held from a national perspective and with different intensity. Given the considerable effects such discussion may have on the methods of administrative legal scholarship, an analysis of these developments in a European ...

National courts and EU environmental Law

Direct effect, consistent interpretation and state liability are instruments developed by the CJEU for national courts to remedy conflicts between national and EU law (and may also be used in some jurisdictions to resolve national law and international law). This book will look at the ...

The success of sanctions

lessons learned from the EU experience

The effectiveness of sanctions cannot purely be measured by the way they change the behaviour of their intended target. The degree to which sanctions constrain a rogue state's behaviour and the signals they send to future targets should also be prime considerations. In this ...

EU and investment agreements

open questions and remaining challenges

The transfer of Foreign Direct Investment competence to the EU within the Treaty of Lisbon opened the way for a more coherent EU international investment policy. Two and a half years on, an EU and Investment Agreements conference was convened to assess crucial issues that ...

Governance challenges and innovations

financial and fiscal governance

Few would doubt that the conditions of governance have changed-and continue to change-as the early 21st century seems to enter a period of profound uncertainty. Yet, at the same time, the world seems alive with a cacophony of approaches-old and new-on how to improve governance ...

Imagining Europe

myth, memory, and identity

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of ...

Comparative reasoning in European Supreme Courts

The last two decades have witnessed an exponential growth in debates on the use of foreign law by courts. Different labels have been attached to the same phenomenon: judges drawing inspiration from outside of their national legal systems for solving purely domestic disputes. By doing ...

Derecho y salud en la Unión Europea

El Derecho de la Unión no restringe la competencia de los Estados miembros para organizar sus sistemas de seguridad social y, a falta de una armonización a escala de la Unión Europea, corresponde a la legislación de cada Estado miembro determinar los requisitos que confieren ...

Negociación y conflicto colectivo en la unión Europea

La sistematización de las grandes cuestiones que plantean los sistemas de negociación colectiva, de conflictos colectivos, de huelga o de cierre patronal de los países de la Europa comunitaria, además de suponer metodológicamente una innovación que facilita el perfeccionamiento del propio sistema, ofrece la posibilidad ...

The Burqa affair across Europe

In recent years, the wearing of the full-face veil or burqa/niqab has proved a controversial issue in many multi-cultural European societies. Focussing on the socio-legal and human rights angle, this volume provides a useful comparative perspective on how the issue has been dealt with ...