Probation measures and alternative sanctions in the European Union

The free movement of citizens within the European Union has been increasingly simplified, which means that, nowadays, more and more sentences are imposed on non-residents and, as a consequence, have to be enforced on the territory of other Member States. An effective application of the ...

The limits of legal reasoning and the European Court of Justice

The European Court of Justice is widely acknowledged to have played a fundamental role in developing the constitutional law of the EU, having been the first to establish such key doctrines as direct effect, supremacy and parallelism in external relations. Traditionally, EU scholarship has praised ...

Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU after Lisbon

The changes made by the Lisbon Treaty suggest that its entry into force in December 2009 marks a new stage in the shaping of the EU's commitment to the protection of fundamental rights. This book's concern is to provide an examination of the ...

Court of Justice of the European Union

commentary on statue and rules of procedure

This Commentary provides for a comprehensive overview of the procedural rules of the EU Courts in Luxembourg. The substantive aspects of the legal remedies at the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal are laid down in the primary legislation, as ...

Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law

A landmark reference work in the field of European private law, offering expert historical and comparative analysis on all major topics in the field Sets current debates about legal harmonization in their historical context, providing an invaluable context in which to understand the modern politics ...

European civil procedure

This volume provides a complete analysis of all EU-Regulations and Directives on civil procedure. The first part of the book tackles international jurisdiction within the EU, as well as recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the member States: the general system established in Regulation ...

The European Court's political power

selected essays

Karen Alter's work on the European Court of Justice heralded a new level of sophistication in the political analysis of the controversial institution, through its combination of legal understanding and active engagement with theoretical questions. The European Court's Political Power assembles the most ...

Public liability in EU Law

Brasserie, Bergaderm and beyond

Over the last two decades public law liability for breach of European Union law has been subject to remarkable developments. This book examines the convergence between its two constituent systems: the damages liability of the EU and that of its Member States for failing to ...

Manual de procedimiento de la Unión Europea

INDICE: El ordenamiento jurídico de la Unión Europea. Instituciones: El consejo de la Unión Europea. Instituciones: La comisión. Instituciones: el Parlamento Europeo. Instituciones: Tribunal de Justicia y Tribunal de Cuentas. Órganos comunitarios. La función pública europea.

La Administración de Justicia en la Unión Europea y el Mercosur

un análisis para su fortalecimiento

A través de los trabajos de este libro se puede alcanzar un panorama actual sobre la situación de la administración de justicia en la Unión Europea y el Mercosur. Ambos procesos de integración cuentan con instancias competentes para entender en los conflictos suscitados, pero, indudablemente ...

La justicia de la Unión Europea

La presente obra aborda el proceso de formación de un poder judicial europeo, un sofisticado entramado en el que destacan el Tribunal de Justicia y las jurisdicciones nacionales supremas de los Estados miembros. A lo largo del análisis de los distintos rasgos característicos del modelo ...

Wyatt and Dashwood's European Union Law

First published 30 years ago, "Wyatt and Dashwood's European Union Law" was a landmark publication, designed and written for students taking degree level courses in EU law. In the intervening years new editions have appeared at regular intervals, firmly establishing the book as a ...

Primacía y subsidiariedad en la Unión Europea

European legal method

paradoxes and revitalisation

This book examines the extent to which it is possible to identify a coherent legal method (doctrine of the sources of law and their interpretation) that may be applied when analysing EU law and the law of EU Member States within the scope of application ...

Prohibition of abuse of Law

a new general principle of EU Law?

The Court of Justice has been alluding to 'abuse and abusive practices' for more than thirty years, but for a long time the significance of these references has been unclear. Few lawyers examined the case law, and those who did doubted whether it had led ...

European Union Law

The new edition of this acclaimed text provides a rigorous, high-level analysis of the constitutional law of the European Union. Its broad scope includes the institutional structure of the EU, its legal instruments, the main substantive principles underlying EU Law and the role of EU ...

Introduzione alla cultura giuridica europea

per gli studenti del primo anno

Parte Prima: Concetti giuridici di base (Patrick Nerhot). – Premessa. – I. (Analogia-Antinomia-Lacuna). – II. (Applicazione del diritto-Creazione del diritto-Interpretazione giuridica). – III. (Fonti del diritto-Diritti soggettivi-Norma). – IV (Validità-Effettività-Anomia). – V. (Diritto-Positivismo-Codificazione-Ragionamento giuridico). – VI. (Pensiero giuridico-Principi del diritto-Normalità). – Parte seconda ...

The Law of succession

testamentary freedom

The law of succession, which has been traditionally confined to domestic limits, is becoming a frequent topic of discussion in international forums, due to the increasing mobility of people and assets. Freedom of testation is in the center of all initiatives tending to harmonize or ...

Costituzionalismo e Diritto europeo delle religioni

Il testo prende in esame il passaggio del costituzionalismo dalla fase del cd moderno costituzionalismo a quella del contemporaneo costituzionalismo, fase che ha determinato il distacco del modello politico giuridico successivo alla seconda guerra mondiale che portò al 'Credo dei diritto dell'uomo' .Tale credo ...

Cooperación judicial civil y penal en el nuevo escenario de Lisboa

Con la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Lisboa el 1 de diciembre del 2009 3 y la adopción por el Consejo Europeo del 10 y 11 de diciembre del mismo año del denominado «Programa de Estocolmo – Una Europa abierta y segura que sirva ...