Overview

The supranational law of the European Union represents a uniquely powerful, far-reaching, and controversial instance of the growth of international legal governance, one that has forever altered the political and legal landscape of its Member States. The EU has attracted significant attention from political scientists, economists, and lawyers who have analysed its polity and constructed theoretical models of the integration process. Yet it has been almost entirely neglected by analytic philosophers, and the philosophical tools that have been developed to analyse and evaluate the Union are still in their infancy.This book brings together legal philosophers, political philosophers, and EU legal academics in the service of developing the philosophical analysis of EU law. In a series of original and complementary essays they bring their varied disciplinary expertise and theoretical perspectives to bear on central issues facing the Union and its law. Combining both abstract thought in legal and political philosophy and more tangible theoretical work on specific legal issues, the essays in this volume make a significant contribution to developing work on the philosophical foundations of EU law, and will engender further debate between philosophers, political philosophers, and EU legal academics. They will be of interest to all those engaged in understanding the nature and purpose of this unique legal entity.

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Author:   Julie Dickson (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Somerville College, Oxford) ,  Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Mansfield College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.978kg
ISBN:  

9780199588770

ISBN 10:   0199588775
Pages:   668
Publication Date:   11 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Julie Dickson and Pavlos Eleftheriadis: Introduction: The Puzzles of European Union Law Part I: The Legal System 2: Julie Dickson: Towards a Theory of European Union Legal Systems 3: Keith Culver and Michael Giudice: Not a System but an Order: An Inter-Institutional View of European Union Law 4: George Letsas: Harmonic Law: The Case Against Pluralism 5: Anthony Arnull: Judicial Dialogue in the European Union Part II: Political Foundations 6: Joseph Weiler: Deciphering the Political and Legal DNA of European Integration: An Exploratory Essay 7: Pavlos Eleftheriadis: Citizenship and Obligation 8: Wil Waluchow: Constitutionalism in the European Union: Pipedream or Possibility? 9: Mattias Kumm: Constitutionalism and the Moral Point of Constitutional Pluralism: Institutional Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection 10: Kalypso Nicolaidis: European Demoicracy and its Crisis 11: Ari Afilalo and Dennis Patterson: Statecraft and the Foundations of European Union Law Part III: Constitutional Virtues 12: Takis Tridimas: Precedent and the Court of Justice: A Jurisprudence of Doubt? 13: Lorenzo Zucca: Monism and Fundamental Rights 14: Geert De Baere: European Integration and the Rule of Law in Foreign Policy 15: Andrea Sangiovanni: Solidarity in the European Union: Problems and Prospects 16: Sionaidh Douglas-Scott: The Problem of Justice in the European Union: Values, Pluralism, and Critical Legal Justice

Reviews

The book I am presenting fills a gap by investigating the long neglected philosophical foundations of European Union Law...I am convinced that it will gain its place in the ongoing debate on European Union Law quite easily. * Hans-W Michlitz, Yearbook of European Law *

The book I am presenting fills a gap by investigating the long neglected philosophical foundations of European Union Law...I am convinced that it will gain its place in the ongoing debate on European Union Law quite easily. Hans-W Michlitz, Yearbook of European Law

Author Information

Dr Julie Dickson studied law and legal philosophy at the University of Glasgow, and at Balliol College, Oxford. She was an academic at the University of Leicester and at University College London before taking up her current post as Fellow and Senior Law Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford, in 2002. She is the review articles editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and is on the editorial board of legal theory journals Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, Transnational Legal Theory, and Problema. Pavlos Eleftheriadis studied in Athens and Cambridge. He is a Fellow in Law at Mansfield College Oxford and a Barrister at Francis Taylor Building. He specializes in public law, EU law, and legal philosophy. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. His book Legal Rights was published in 2008 by OUP.

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