The Foundations of European Union Law provides an impressively clear and easily understood account of the constitutional and administrative law of the EU. Tridimas examines the institutions, of the EU (including the workings of the European Courts), the Union legal system and the major constitutional issues before moving on to the area of administrative law and remedies.
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New to this Edition
- Greater emphasis on aspects of constitutional law.
- More extensive treatment of the relationship between EU and international law.
- More discussion of the competence of the Union.
- Treatment of the legal aspects of Brexit and its aftermath.
Part I: History and Objectives of the European Union
1:A Brief History:From Coal and Steel to the European Union
2:Objectives, Scheme, and Nature of the European Union
Part II: The Institutions
3:The Political Institutions
4:The Court of Justice
Part III: The EU Legal System
5:The Constitutive Treaties
6:EU values and the General Principles of Law
7:Fundamental Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
8:International agreements concluded by the Union
9:Agreements concluded by the Member States
10:Hierarchy and Conflict of Primary Sources
11:The Competence of the European Union
12:The Principle of Primacy
13:Direct Effect
14:The National Reaction
15:Union Acts
Part IV: Judicial Review of EU Acts
16:Reviewable acts
17:Locus standi
18:Review, time limit, and annulment
19:Failure to Act
20:Indirect Challenge
21:Union obligations
22:Enforcement Actions
23:Preliminary References
24:The Protection of EU Rights in National Courts
Part V: Brexit
25:The Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU-UK Relations Post-Brexit
