The Evolution of EU Law

This last decade has been particularly turbulent for the EU. Beset by crises - the financial crisis, the rule of law crisis, the migration crisis, Brexit, and the pandemic - European Law has had to adapt and change in a way not previously seen. First published in 1999, the goal then was to reflect on the important developments that had been made since the creation of the EEC. That goal has not changed. From EU Administrative Law through to the Regulation of Network Industries, each chapter in this seminal work assess the legal and political forces that have shaped the evolution of EU law. With new chapters covering the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and Data Governance, this third edition of The Evolution of EU Law is a must read for any student or academic of EU law.

1 - Introduction
2 - Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy
3 - Institutions, Power and Institutional Balance
4 - Legal and Constitutional Theory of the European Union
5 - The Agencification Process and the Evolution of the EU Administrative System
6 - Judicial Reform and the European Court: Not a Numbers Game
7 - Direct Effect, Primacy and the Nature of the Legal Order
8 - Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Continuity
9 - The Vicissitudes of Life at the Coalface: Remedies and Procedures for Enforcing Union Law before the National Courts
10 - The Rule of Law
11 - The Evolution of EU Administrative Law
12 - From a Europe of Bits and Pieces to a Union of Variegated Differentiation
13 - (Br)Exit from the EU-Control, Autonomy and the Evolution of EU Law
14 - External Relations of the European Union: The Constitutional Framework for International Action
15 - The Evolution of EU Human Rights Law
16 - Free Movement of Persons, Establishment and Services
17 - Free Movement of Goods: Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Foundations of the European Union
18 - Free Movement of Capital: Evolution as a Non-Linear Process
19 - Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism
20 - EU Anti-Discrimination Law: Navigating Sameness and Difference
21 - EU 'Social' Policy: From Employment Law to Labour Market Reform
22 - Economic and Monetary Union: Evolution and Conflict
23 - EU Criminal Law and Police Cooperation
24 - Civil Justice Extending its Tentacles
25 - The Evolution of EU Law on Refugees and Asylum
26 - Competition Law: Convergence through Law and Networks
27 - EU Environmental Law and Legal Imagination
28 - Consumer Policy
29 - The Evolution of European Data 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.