Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

Paul Beaumont is Professor of European Union and Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. Neil Walker is Professor of European Law at the EUI Florence.

...does a valuable service to British public debatestimulating dialoguethe book certainly situates one in the legal context and issues of the EMU in preparation for that debate.Legal Framework of the Single European Currency becomes an invaluable resource in the European public debate on the single currency. Melih Karakullukcu Columbia Journal of European Law June 2002 Both descriptive and analytical, this book is concerned with the fine detail of the law but it also places that law in historical, political and economic context. European Sources Online September 2002

• Part 1 The birth of the euro - legal, economic and political perspectives: legal background of the euro, John Usher; the macro-economic context of the euro, Andrew Scott; the euro - preparing for the future, Alistair Darling. Part 2 Constitutional framework of the euro: the fiscal constitution of EMU, Ian Harden; EMU, the European Central Bank and judicial review, Paul Craig. Part 3 European governance: the constitutional law of the euro? disciplining European governance, Michelle Everson; economic and social cohesion and the Euro, Joanne Scott and Stephen Vousden. Part 4 Prospects: the euro and European legal order, Paul Beaumont and Neil Walker.