The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy as a Legal Actor

Frank Hoffmeister

ISBN 10: 9004700625 / ISBN 13: 9789004700628

Published by Brill, NL, 2025

About this Item

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy conducts the EU's foreign policy and coordinates external relations within the European Commission. The present volume informs about his/her new role before the European Court of Justice and related case law. It also analyses the EU's role in various classical fields of international law, such as litigating in the International Court of Justice, negotiating new rules on crimes against humanity, business and human rights or establishing a special tribunal on aggression against Ukraine. The rich contributions may help EU external relations and public international lawyers to construct their own analytical frameworks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy as a Legal Actor
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004700625
• ISBN 13: 9789004700628
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 16.18W x 2.57H x 24.1D centimeters 16.18 centimeters width by 2.57 centimeters height by 24.1 centimeters depth
• Weight: 758 grams

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Synopsis

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy conducts the EU’s foreign policy and coordinates external relations within the European Commission. The present volume informs about his/her new role before the European Court of Justice and related case law. It also analyses the EU’s role in various classical fields of international law, such as litigating in the International Court of Justice, negotiating new rules on crimes against humanity, business and human rights or establishing a special tribunal on aggression against Ukraine. The rich contributions may help EU external relations and public international lawyers to construct their own analytical frameworks.

About the Author

Frank Hoffmeister is the Head of the Legal Department of the European External Action Service and Professor at the Brussels School of Governance. Together with others, he also published The Law of EU External Relations (OUP, 2021, 3rd ed.).

Lóránt Havas is the Deputy Head of the Division for International Law and EU External Relations Law at the Legal Department of the EEAS. He also teaches EU constitutional law and the law of international organisations at the Brussels School of Governance.