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1. Criminal Law and Policy in the European Union

   By Samuli Miettinen

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty. The work considers criminal offences established at EU level, the effects of EU law on national criminalization, the...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Tangled Complexity of the EU Constitutional Process

   The Frustrating Knot of Europe

   By Giuseppe Martinico

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Despite the rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty eventually leading to the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, the debates concerning the European Union’s constitutional framework continue. This book builds on the discourse in European Union constitutionalism in order to offer a novel analysis of...

   Published November 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. European Perspectives on Environmental Law and Governance

   Edited by Suzanne Kingston

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today’s leading European environmental academics and practitioners. The book maintains a focus on three key cross-cutting issues, each of which is...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. New Governance and the European Employment Strategy

   By Samantha Velluti

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Turkey’s Accession to the European Union

   The Politics of Exclusion?

   By Edel Hughes

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Turkey’s accession to the European Union is undoubtedly one of the Union’s most contested potential enlargements. The narrative that dominates the debate surrounding this issue primarily relates to problems such as a lack of respect for fundamental human rights in Turkey, the Kurdish question and...

   Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union

   By Kirsten Shoraka

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights. This book examines the development and the role of human rights in the...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU

   By Melanie Smith

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Article 226 EC is the central mechanism of enforcement in the EC Treaty, and has remained unchanged since the original Treaty of Rome. It provides the European Commission, as guardian of the Treaty, with a broad power of policing Member States’ conduct. Article 226 has been traditionally...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity

   Constitutional Theory and Empirical Reality

   By Philipp Kiiver

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of the European Union’s Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity, which was introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book includes both a detailed theoretical analysis of the EWS as well as an assessment of how national parliaments have...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Evolving EU Counter-terrorism Legal Framework

   By Maria O'Neill

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, and the contemporaneous publication of the Stockholm Programme, the area of freedom, security and justice has obtained a more secure legal basis within the EU treaty framework and now has a coherent policy programme set out for its...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy

    A Paradigm for Coherence

    By Bart Van Vooren

    Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

    The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a recent example of an external EU policy drawn up explicitly with the objective of achieving coherence in the external policies of the EU and its Member States. Positioning the ENP in the legal-historical context of political union, this book explains why...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge