The Lisbon Treaty: A Legal and Political Analysis (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy) - Softcover

Piris, Jean-Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521142342 ISBN 13: 9780521142342

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Given the controversies and difficulties which preceded the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it is easy to forget that the Treaty is a complex legal document in need of detailed analysis for its impact to be fully understood. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union, provides such an analysis, looking at the historical and political contexts of the Treaty, its impact on the democratic framework of the EU and its provisions in relation to substantive law. Impartial legal analysis of the EU's functions, its powers and the treaties which govern it make this the seminal text on the most significant recent development in EU law.

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Book Description:

This impartial legal analysis of the Lisbon Treaty's historical and political context explores the EU's purpose, its powers and the treaties which govern it. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union, provides an authoritative assessment of primary law in the EU.

About the Author:

Since 1988, Jean-Claude Piris has served as the Legal Counsel of the Council of the EU and Director General of its Legal Service. He is an Honorary Counsellor of State of France, a former diplomat to the UN and the former Director of Legal Affairs of the OECD. He was the Legal Advisor of the successive Inter-Governmental Conferences which negotiated and adopted the treaties of Maastricht in 1992, Amsterdam in 1997, Nice in 2001, the Constitutional Treaty signed in Rome in 2004 and, finally, the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521142342
• ISBN 13: 9780521142342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450