1st Edition
The EU Social Market Economy and the Law Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Challenges for the EU
CONTENTS
Foreword
BRUNO DE WITTE
List of Contributors
Table of Legislation
Table of cases
Introduction
DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE
PART I
- The EU Between Market State Ideals and Social Market Economy Objectives: Placing the Social Market Economy within the Union’s Constitutional History
- The EU Transformation of the Social State
- Social rights, Social Market Economy, and the European Social Model: Tracing Conceptual Boundaries
- EU Citizenship and the Social Market Economy: Shifting Balances
- W(h)ither Social Europe? Labour Rights in a Social Market Economy
- The Social Dimension of EU Public Procurement and The Social Market Economy
- Social Considerations in EU Competition Law: The Protection of Competition as a Cornerstone of the Social Market Economy
- State Aid Law in a Social Market Economy
- Services of General Economic Interest and Social Considerations
- Social Services, Service Providers and Non-Economic Activities in the Realm of the EU ‘Social Market Economy’
- Cross-Border Healthcare and the Social Market Economy
- Social Considerations in EU Consumer Law: The Legislator, the Court and a Rhapsody in Blue
- Towards a More Socially Orientated EU Copyright Law: A Soft Paradigm Shift after Lisbon?
- The Social Dimension of EU Energy Law
- The Social Dimension of the Common Commercial Policy
- The Social Dimension of EU Investment Law and Policy
CHARLES EDWARD O’SULLIVAN
MARCO DANI
STEFANO CIVITARESE MATTEUCCI
GIACOMO DELLEDONNE
PART II
MICHAEL DOHERTY
CHRISTOPHER BOVIS
ANDREAS HEINEMANN
DELIA FERRI and JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ
JUAN JORGE PIERNAS LÓPEZ
SILVIA PELLIZZARI
LUCIA BUSATTA and TAMARA HERVEY
VANESSA MAK
CATERINA SGANGA
GOKCE METE and RAPHAEL HEFFRON
VIVIAN KUBE and LUIGI PEDRESCHI
SONDRA FACCIO
Conclusion
DELIA FERRI and FULVIO CORTESE
INDEX
Biography
Dr. Delia Ferri is a Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University Department of Law
Prof. Dr. Fulvio Cortese is Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento






