Introduction

Introduction

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This is the second edition of a work that first appeared just over a decade ago in 1999. It seemed fitting for a book entitled the Evolution of EU Law, to see what had transpired in the decade between the first and second edition of this work. The inspiration and approach of the second edition remains the same as the first. We asked the contributors to stand back and to consider how their particular subject had evolved over time, to analyse the principal themes, and to assess the legal and political forces that shaped its development. The contributors have performed this task admirably, and we are grateful to them. This book is not, therefore, a text, and the contributors have not been asked to give exhaustive treatment to every nuance or point of detail that pertains to their object of inquiry. They have free rein to tell the story of the evolution of their chosen area as they think fit. There are in any event many ‘stories’ that could be told about the evolution of the topics considered in this book. Several significant changes have been made in this second edition as compared with the first. A number of new topics which seemed particularly prominent in EU law over the last decade—enlargement, the area of freedom, security and justice (including migration as well as civil and criminal law aspects), citizenship, human rights, regulation of financial services, free movement of capital, and cultural policy—have been added. A separate chapter on Agencies, which were previously treated within the chapter on Institutions, and a chapter on the institutional question of the ‘legal basis’ for EU action, have been included. For a variety of reasons, we have not been able to include updated versions of the chapters on the Regulation of the Single Market, the Free Movement of Goods, Regional Policy, or Education and Vocational Training. Several new contributors—Mark Bell, Kieran St Clair Bradley, Christophe Hillion, Pierre Larouche, Steve Peers, Jukka Snell, Alec Stone Sweet, Eva Storskrubb, and Takis Tridimas—have joined the team which wrote the first edition.

Source Publication

The Evolution of EU Law

Source Editors/Authors

Paul Craig, Gráinne de Búrca

Publication Date

2011

Edition

2

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