Karen Davies – författare

Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished.This eighth edition has been fully revised and updated with the latest legislative changes and includes an in-depth discussion of ‘Brexit’ and its implications for EU–UK relations. The book provides readers with a clear understanding of the structures and rationale behind EU law, explaining how and why the law has developed as it has. In addition to discussing the core areas of EU law such as its sources, the role and powers of the EU’s Institutions, the enforcement of EU law and the law of the internal market, this edition also includes a new chapter on three ‘non-economic’ areas of EU law: fundamental human rights, equality (non-discrimination) and the environment.This student-friendly text is both broad in scope and highly accessible. It will inspire students towards further study and show that understanding EU law can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. As well as being essential reading for Law students, Understanding European Union Law is also suitable for students on other courses where basic knowledge of EU law is required or useful, such as business studies, political science, international relations or European studies programmes.

Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished.This eighth edition has been fully revised and updated with the latest legislative changes and includes an in-depth discussion of ‘Brexit’ and its implications for EU–UK relations. The book provides readers with a clear understanding of the structures and rationale behind EU law, explaining how and why the law has developed as it has. In addition to discussing the core areas of EU law such as its sources, the role and powers of the EU’s Institutions, the enforcement of EU law and the law of the internal market, this edition also includes a new chapter on three ‘non-economic’ areas of EU law: fundamental human rights, equality (non-discrimination) and the environment.This student-friendly text is both broad in scope and highly accessible. It will inspire students towards further study and show that understanding EU law can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. As well as being essential reading for Law students, Understanding European Union Law is also suitable for students on other courses where basic knowledge of EU law is required or useful, such as business studies, political science, international relations or European studies programmes.

Does gender make any difference in the working relations between doctors and nurses? Is the relationship between women doctors and nursing staff poorer or perhaps better than is the case with male doctors? Disturbing Gender examines exactly these questions and attempts to show how and why gender relations need to be taken into account if we are to understand why certain tensions arise in hospital work. Nursing and medicine are at the present time renegotiating and redefining their position in relation to each other. By arguing that the health care organisation itself is gendered and that the professions of medicine and nursing are closely built upon constructions of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies), Karen Davies attempts to also explore what a resetting of the boundaries means. Dialogic communication and respect for each others’ skills and alterity emerge as central components. Theoretically, ‘the body’ is used as an analytic tool in the book: the body is inscribed with gender – influencing intraprofessional relations; there is the question of situatedness – where the bodies of medical and nursing staff find themselves in the daily run of things; and there is the meeting, or mis-meeting, of the two collective bodies – medicine and nursing. An underlying theme running throughout the whole book is the question of change. The analysis attempts to pinpoint where problems lie and argues for an ungendering of gender relations. Karen Davies is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Lund University.

Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished. It is also indispensable reading for students on business studies courses. Fully revised and updated, this sixth edition continues to look at the main themes of EU law in a straightforward and logical manner. Updated to discuss the UK’s increasingly difficult relationship with the EU and recent developments in EU citizenship rights such as the Zambrano decision, this book provides the reader with a clear understanding of EU law, concentrating on how and why the law has developed as it has. A chapter on assessment guidance has been expanded to provide advice on revision, coursework and examinations on the subject of EU law. This student-friendly text is broad in scope and highly accessible, inspiring students toward further study and showing that understanding EU law can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience.