Europeanisation of Law

Francis Snyder is Visiting Professor, (formerly Centennial Professor) in the Law Department at the LSE, Professeur des Universites and Professor of Public Law at the Universite Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III and Guest Professor at Peking University Law School.

The quality of the essays is indubitable and they have the provenance of coming from some of Europe's foremost legal scholars. The book wil be an important source of reference for anyone with an interest in European law. Mike Varney, University of Hull European Public Law June 2003

• The EUI Law Department and the Europeanisation of law - an introduction, Francis Snyder. Part 1 Juridification of politics: integration through law revisted - some thoughts on the juridification of the European political process, renaud Dehousse; should public prosection be independent?, Luis Maria Diez-Picazo. Part II Changes in the structure of governance: the science of private law and the nation-state, Christian Joerges; the role of institutional principles in the judicial development of the European Union legal order, Bruno de Witte; European media law - a perspective on the challenge of multimedia, karl-Heinz Ladeur; legal pluralism as an evolutionary achievement of community law, Massimo La Torre. Part III Partial convergence of national legal systems: the protection of public interests and regulation of economic activities, Giuliano Amato; the convergence of the administrative laws of the EU member states, Jurgen Schwarze; some basic elements of legal phenomenology, Patrick Nerhot; trade union rights in EU law, Brian Bercusson. Part IV Unintended consequences: why should Europe be a democracy? - the corruption of politial culture and the principle of toleration, J.H.H. Weiler; simplification of European law, Roland Bieber and Celsa Amarelle; legal irritants - good faith in British law or how unifying law ends up in new divergences, Gunther Teubner; global or re-nationalised? past and future of European labour law, Silvana Sciarra; globalisation and Europeanisation as friends and rivals - European Union law in global economic networks, Francis Snyder.