From Van Gend en Loos and Costa v ENEL to Cassis de Dijon and Consten and Grundig, Landmark Cases in EU Law explores the most important and well-known EU law cases in two volumes.
These volumes show how the European Court of Justice has played a fundamental role in the construction of the European Union in the past 70 years. Many EU ‘landmark’ cases have been controversial, yet no-one can deny that they have been essential in defining the Union legal order as we find it today.
Volume 1 explores the ‘constitutional’ cases that have come to define the legal nature and competences of the Union, its judicial architecture as well as its fundamental rights system. Each of the twenty cases within this volume is placed in its historical and doctrinal context, and each chapter also presents the history of its reception by the Court and academia.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Paul Craig (University of Oxford, UK) and Robert Schütze (Durham University, UK)
Part A: The Nature of European Union Law
1. Van Gend en Loos: A Star is Born, Koen Lenaerts and José Gutierrez-Fons (Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg)
2. Costa and the Supremacy of Union Law, Bruno de Witte (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)
3. Internationale Handelsgesellschaft and the General Principles of EU Law, Takis Tridimas (University of Luxembourg)
4. Van Duyn and the Nature of Directives, Sacha Prechal (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
5. Von Colson and the Principle of 'Indirect Effect', Sara Drake (Cardiff University, UK)
Part B: EU Competences: Vertical and Horizontal
6. The ERTA Case: Establishing the EU as an International Actor, Marise Cremona (European University Institute, Italy)
7. Tobacco Advertising and the Powers of Harmonisation, Kai Purnhagen (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
8. Opinion 1/75 and Exclusive European Union Competences, Panos Koutrakos (City, University of London, UK)
9. The Working Time Case and the Death of Subsidiarity, Gareth Davies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
10. Chernobyl and the Inter-institutional Balance, Joana Mendes (University of Luxembourg)
Part C: Judicial Architecture within the Union
11. Plaumann: The Narrow Gateway to Direct Judicial Review, Albertina Albors-Llorens (University of Cambridge, UK)
12. CILFIT and the Doctrine of Acte Clair, Alexander Kornezov (General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg)
13. Factortame and Interim Measures before National Courts, Jasper Krommendijk (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
14. Francovich and the Liability of States, Roberto Caranta (University of Turin, Italy)
15. Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses and Judicial Independence, Michal Ovádek (University College London, UK) and Laurent Pech (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Part D: Fundamental Rights and the Union Legal Order
16. Nold and the Sources of EU Fundamental Rights, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
17. Åkerberg Fransson and the Question of Incorporation, Daniel Sarmiento (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
18. Bauer and Broßonn: Affirming the Horizontal Effect of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Eleni Frantziou (Durham University, UK)
19. Kadi I and Kadi II: Fundamental Rights and Judicial Protection, Christina Eckes (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
20. Opinion 2/13 and Accession to the ECHR, Tobias Lock (Maynooth University, Ireland)
About the Author :
Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law at St John’s College, Oxford, UK.
Robert Schütze is Professor of European Union and Comparative Public Law at Durham University, UK, and LUISS (Rome), Italy.
