The Judiciary, the Legislature and the EU Internal Market

By tracing the way in which the CJEU and national courts react to legislation and Treaty reform, and the way in which the Member States, Commission and other actors in the legislative process react to judicial interventions, this collection of essays explores the nature of the dynamic relationship between courts and legislatures within the EU. It is clear that the boundaries between the legal and political realms are contested and that the judiciary and the legislature are engaged in a struggle, not so much about the substantive contours of the internal market project, but rather about their relative institutional positions. The contributors consider all aspects of the internal market project, from goods to capital and citizenship, examining areas where there has been significant Treaty change as well as those in which the Treaty framework has remained substantially unaltered.

Part I: 1. Theorising the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature in the EU internal market Phil Syrpis; 2. A competence to protect: the pursuit of non-market aims through internal market legislation Bruno de Witte; Part II: 3. Free movement of goods and EU legislation in the Court of Justice Laurence Gormley; 4. Minimum harmonisation, free movement and proportionality Nina Boeger; 5. Legislatures, courts and the Unfair Terms Directive Gert Straetmans and Caroline Cauffman; 6. The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive: a successful example of legislative harmonisation? Amandine Garde; 7. The EU media market and the interplay between the legislature and the judiciary Dimitrios Doukas; 8. The EU social security coordination system: a close interplay between the EU legislature and judiciary Herwig Verschueren; 9. Internal market architecture and the accommodation of labour rights: as good as it gets? Claire Kilpatrick; Part III: 10. The interactions between the legislature and the judiciary in EU external relations Geert de Baere and Panos Koutrakos; 11. Changing Treaty and changing economic context: the dynamic relationship of the legislature and the judiciary in the pursuit of capital liberalisation Ryan Murphy; 12. The judiciary, the legislature and the evolution of Union citizenship Ferdinand Wollenschläger; 13. The third age of EU citizenship: Directive 2004/38 in the case law of the Court of Justice Niamh Nic Shuibhne.

This collection of essays examines the way in which the dynamic relationship between courts and legislatures - the legal and political realms - contributes to the governance of the EU internal market. With contributions by academic legal experts from across the EU, it will appeal to lawyers, and social and political scientists.

Phil Syrpis is a reader in law at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively in EU law, including articles on the relationship between economic and social rights in Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon, subsidiarity, the open method of coordination and regulatory competition.