Gian Antonio Benacchio, Barbara Pasa

A Common Law for Europe

Übersetzer: Orme, Lesley

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An essential guide for lawmakers, scholars, and students of law, this work takes on the formidable task of providing a detailed overview of the harmonization of law in the European Union. Skillfully researched, the authors seek to approach this topic with an eye to the recent enlargement process. In highlighting the most recent actions of the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, the book seeks to analyze the future strengths and pitfalls of EU Common Law. Court rulings are quoted at length, and work in conjunction with text inserts in providing a format that breaks down complex information. This open style of the book gives researchers the ability to quickly locate useful information and cite statements from EU institutions. In outlining the sources and institutions of Community Law, and the challenges in harmonizing national and supra-national law-books, 'A Common Law for Europe' has done a tremendous service for academics and future leaders of the European Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9789637326332
• ISBN-10: 9637326332
• Artikelnr.: 22034041

Autorenporträt

Gian Antonio Benacchio is Professor of Private Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Trento. Barbara Pasa is Lecturer and Research Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the University of Turin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Chapter I: Private law of the European Community: the process
of harmonisation, uniformisation and unification. 1. Foreword 2. European
Union and European Community 3. The Treaty establishing a Constitution for
Europe 4. 'European' federalism 5. The last enlargement 6. Economic and
monetary integration 7. The acquis communautaire 8. The dynamics of legal
transplants 9. Defining 'European Community Private Law' 10. Unification
and uniformisation of the law 11. Harmonisation of the law 11. Effects on
national laws 12. 'Communitarisation' of national laws 13. Areas of law
which are affected by European Community Private law 14. Comparative law
and European Community Private law Bibliography Chapter I Chapter II: The
diffusion of legal rules and models and the transposition of concepts 1.
Foreword 2. The diffusion of intra-Community models 3. The incorporation of
extra-Community models 4. Compromise models 5. The Court of Justice,
national courts and the circulation of legal models 6. Competition between
legal models, political forces and economic policies 7. Language problems
8. Old terms for new concepts: some examples 9. The new concepts
Bibliography Chapter II Chapter III: Harmonisation as an instrument for the
'Reinforced Pre-Accession Strategy' 1. Foreword 2. The enlargement of the
European Union to include the CEECs 3. The legal frame of reference 3a)
Europe Agreements 3b) White Paper on 'Preparation of the Associated
Countries of Central and Eastern Europe for integration into the internal
market of the Union' 3c) Agenda 2000. 'For a stronger and wider Union-The
challenge of enlargement' 3d) PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD programmes 3e)
'Reinforced pre-accession strategy': the Accession Partnerships 3f) APs and
Regular Reports of the Commission 3g) APs and National Programmes for the
Adoption of the Acquis (NPAAs) 4. The Accession Treaty 5. The central role
played by the European Council in the enlargement process 6. The activity
of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bibliography
Chapter III Chapter IV Institutions and sources of Community law 1.
Foreword 2. European integration 2a) Community and national competences 2b)
The principle of subsidiarity 2c) The Constitution for Europe and the new
rules 3. The institutional actors of European integration 4. The sources of
Community law and their effect 5. Direct effect of Treaty provisions 6.
Supremacy of Treaty provisions over domestic law 7. Direct effect of
Regulations 8. Supremacy of Regulations over domestic laws 9. The
Directives 10. The Decisions of the Commission Bibliography Chapter IV
Chapter V: The adaptation of national laws to Community law 1. Foreword 2.
The transposition of directives: the Italian 'Community Act' as an
illustration 3. Remedies for failure to implement or incorrect
implementation of the directives 3a) Directives which implement Treaty
provisions which are already binding 3b) Directives of a prohibitory nature
3c) Directives which are sufficiently precise and unconditional 4. National
entities bound to apply non-implemented directives 5. Vertical and
horizontal direct effect of non-implemented directives 6. The position of
national courts 7. The interpretation of national law 'in conformity' with
Community law 8. Member States' liability in damages for breach of
Community law Bibliography Chapter V Chapter VI: A Common Law for Europe?
1. Foreword 2. Community law, Comparative law and European law 3. A return
to jus commune? 4. The lex mercatoria and other unifying commercial
practices 5. The initiatives for unification: Code, Restatement, and
Collection of principles 5a) The Pavia group 5b) The McGregor Contract Code
5c) The Principles of European Contract Law 5d) The European Civil Code
Project 5e) The Trento Common Core Project 5f) The Acquis Group 5g) Other
initiatives 6. A view of European common law: uniformisation and diversity
Bibliography Chapter VI List of abbreviations, List of Tables, Index