The Evolution of EU Law

Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law, St John's College, Oxford. His research and writing focusses on Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, EU Law and Comparative Public Law. He has given evidence before select committees on a number of occasions and was the UK Alternate Member of the Venice Commission from 2011-2019.Gráinne de Búrca is Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, New York University. Her research and teaching focusses primarily on European Union law, international organizations, and international human rights law. She is a co-editor of The International Journal of Constitutional Law and co-director of the Jean Monnet Center at NYU Law school, as well as Director of NYU's Hauser Global Law Program.

This book has been a must and a classic in EU law scholarship since the first edition 1999. This third edition is not only updated to the latest developments in written law and jurisprudence, it includes new chapters on the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and the Evolution of Data Law – including Artificial Intelligence. With 27 contributors from different European countries the book gives not only constant food for thought, it offers a very comprehensive knowledge base on institutional and substantive law as well as legal theory issues. A tour de force of breadth, depth and expertise.

• 1: Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca: Introduction 2: Paul Craig: Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy 3: Paul Craig: Institutions, Power and Institutional Balance 4: Neil Walker: Legal and Constitutional Theory of the European Union 5: Edoardo Chiti: The Agencification Process and the Evolution of the EU Administrative System 6: Kieran Bradley: Judicial Reform and the European Court: Not a Numbers Game 7: Bruno de Witte: Direct Effect, Primacy and the Nature of the Legal Order 8: Catherine Donnelly: Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Continuity 9: Francesca Episcopo: The Vicissitudes of Life at the Coalface: Remedies and Procedures for Enforcing Union Law before the National Courts 10: Laurent Pech: The Rule of Law 11: Joana Mendes and Edoardo Chiti: The Evolution of EU Administrative Law 12: Deirdre Curtin: From a Europe of Bits and Pieces to a Union of Variegated Differentiation 13: Kenneth Armstrong: (Br)Exit from the EU-Control, Autonomy and the Evolution of EU Law 14: Marise Cremona: External Relations of the European Union: The Constitutional Framework for International Action 15: Gráinne de Búrca: The Evolution of EU Human Rights Law 16: Siofra O'Leary and Sara Iglesias Sánchez: Free Movement of Persons, Establishment and Services 17: Stefan Enchelmaier: Free Movement of Goods: Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Foundations of the European Union 18: Jukka Snell: Free Movement of Capital: Evolution as a Non-Linear Process 19: Jo Shaw: Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism 20: Mark Bell: EU Anti-Discrimination Law: Navigating Sameness and Difference 21: Catherine Barnard: EU 'Social' Policy: From Employment Law to Labour Market Reform 22: Alicia Hinarejos: Economic and Monetary Union: Evolution and Conflict 23: Steve Peers: EU Criminal Law and Police Cooperation 24: Eva Storskrubb: Civil Justice Extending its Tentacles 25: Lilian Tsourdi and Cathryn Costello: The Evolution of EU Law on Refugees and Asylum 26: Imelda Maher: Competition Law: Convergence through Law and Networks 27: Liz Fisher: EU Environmental Law and Legal Imagination 28: Stephen Weatherill: Consumer Policy 29: Thomas Streinz: The Evolution of European Data Law