The Law of the European Union: A New Constitutional Order: Materials and Cases (Volume 1) (Law Casebook Series) - Hardcover

Levasseur, Alain; Scott, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890898340 ISBN 13: 9780890898345

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, 2001

Synopsis

This work invites readers in law, as well as those in political science, international relations, and similar disciplines to witness the fast growing emergence of a "new legal order": the law of the European Union (EU) and European Communities. Ever since its early founding through daring steps in the 1950s, Community law has gone through formidable and complex developments resulting from several enlargements and the expansion of the powers of the Communities. For reasons laid out in this book, the EU as a whole is now a field of major interest and study. This volume deals mostly with issues pertaining to the sovereignty of the member states engaged in the construction of Europe. After presenting a history of the Communities and EU, Levasseur and Scott address topics such as the EU's constitutional principles, its institutions, the sources of law, the legal remedies available, and the relationship between Community law and national legal orders. Comparative law references have been added where appropriate. In addition, this work examines the EU's defense policies and the special relations between the EU and the USA.

About this title

About the Author:

Alain Levasseur is the Hermann Moyse, Sr. Professor of Law and Associate Director for International Studies, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Richard F. Scott is Distinguished Professor of International Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Arnaud Raynouard is a professor at Universite Toulouse.

Melchior Wathelet is a professor at the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve and Liege.

Review:

"This much more understandable work uses a European approach to a European subject, while still including an appropriate number of cases as part of the overall presentation." --On Studying European Law --A Comparative Review of the Two Leading Books, The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 2003

"We . . . find in [the book] all the qualities of an excellent casebook, where the goal of providing a mass of information does not give way to the goal of stimulating classroom discussion...." --Xavier Blanc-Jouvan, American Journal of Comparative Law, 2002

"This much more understandable work uses a European approach to a European subject, while still including an appropriate number of cases as part of the overall presentation." --On Studying European Law --A Comparative Review of the Two Leading Books, The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 2003

"This much more understandable work uses a European approach to a European subject, while still including an appropriate number of cases as part of the overall presentation." --On Studying European Law --A Comparative Review of the Two Leading Books, The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0890898340
• ISBN 13: 9780890898345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1136