Dictionary of Statuses within EU Law: The Individual Statuses as Pillar of European Union Integration

The Dictionary’s core is composed of 79 chapters, published in alphabetical order. Each brief chapter analyses how the individual status was conditioned or created by contemporary EU law, or how the process of European integration modified the traditional juridical definition of the respective status. 

The Dictionary provides answers to the following questions: Has the process of European integration modified the traditional juridical definition of individual status? Has the concept oflegal status now acquired a new function? What role has EU law played in developing a new modern function for the concept of individual status? Are the selection of a specific individual status by EU law and the proliferation of such statuses, which is synonymous with the creation of new privileges, collectively undermining the goal of achieving substantive equality between EU citizens? Does this constitute a return to the past? Under EU law, is it possible to create a uniform definition of the legal status of the person, over and above the definition that is provided by a given Member State’s legal system?

Valentina Colcelli, Ph.D., is Researcher of National Research Council (Italy) - Ifac-Sesto Fiorentino (FI) -;  Module Leader of Jean Monnet European Modules “Europeanization Through Private Law Instruments” (EuPlaw), University of Perugia and Member of Managing Board Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Research and Science” (R&S), University of Perugia. She is also Expert for European Commission Directorate-General for Research And Innovation/Infrastructures _ ERIC. 

Roberto Cippitani is Professor of Biolaw and of Research and Innovation Law, at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Department of Medicine. He is Jean Monnet Chairholder and Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Rights and Science”. R. C. is visiting professor in several Universities in Europe and Latin America.