Direct Effect in EU Law

Daniele Gallo University (Rome), where he is the Deputy-Provost for the Alliance ENGAGE.EU and Co-Director of the LLM in European Law and Policies. Professor Gallo has been a Jean Monnet Chair and a Recurring Visiting Professor in several universities in Europe and the US, such as Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris) and American University Washington College of Law (Washington DC). He has been EU Fulbright Schuman Scholar at Fordham Law School (NY), DAAD Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Rech (Heidelberg), and Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI (Florence). He is the author of four monographs and editor or co-editor of several volumes and journals special issues, including The Italian Influence on European Law (Hart, 2024). As an attorney-at-Law, he regularly pleads before national jurisdictions, the General Court, the Court of Justice, and the European Commission.

Professor Gallo's book takes on the monumental task of analysing direct effect across its different manifestations, ranging from EU external relations to fundamental rights and from vertical to horizontal and incidental forms of direct effect. In so doing, it succeeds admirably in providing the most comprehensive and systematic analysis to date of this paradigmatic EU law classic

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Origins of Direct Effect: Van Gend & Loos In Context Chapter 2: Evolutive Direct Effect and the Preliminary Reference Procedure Chapter 3: Transformative Direct Effect: The Van Gend & Loos Doctrine, Today Chapter 4: Broad Direct Effect Chapter 5: Direct Effect's Core Conditions and the Extent of Disapplication Chapter 6: Controversial Horizontal Direct Effect Chapter 7: Unsteady 'External' Direct Effect Conclusion: Rethinking Direct Effect in Times of Judicial Argumentative Minimalism: A Proposal