Bücher der Reihe Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law

The picture of Brussels-based bureaucrats exercising arbitrary executive powers is one of the favourite images conjured by Eurosceptics across the political spectrum. What truth is there in the image? This book offers a richer understanding of the nature of the EU's powers, how they relate to national governments, and how they are controlled.

This book examines the rights of accused persons in criminal proceedings. The case-law of the international bodies dealing with this issue is presented and critically examined by an author who has contributed to its creation for almost a quarter of a century. The law of the European Convention is emphasized because of its advanced procedures, and the quality and quantity of its case-law.

This collection presents an analysis of the imperatives of sovereignty, human rights and national security in the post 9/11 era, and examines their relationship to procedural and substantive legitimacy in liberal democratic states

This collection of essays examines the problem of securing access to justice in the enforcement of international human rights law. The perspectives included here include access to environmental justice, access to justice for torture victims, and access to justice before international judicial bodies.

Opening with a discussion of the shifting conceptions of European democracy, this volume proceeds to look at key areas of substantive law against the backdrop of the Constitutional Treaty, from Foreign Relations to Fundamental Rights, Social Policy to Justice and Home Affairs. It also examines potential solutions to the constitutional crisis.

Are efforts to protect workers' rights compatible with the forces of globalization? The contributors to this volume argue that international agreements and institutions are of central importance if labour rights are to be protected in a globalized economy, exploring some of the options that are open to governments and the labour movement.

The starting point of this work is the co-existence of the overlapping regimes of the WTO, the EU and the NAFTA. On this basis it explores the emergence of a nascent Common Law of International Trade and the phenomena in which this is rooted.

Exploring the main areas of legal development under the so-called "Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice" (AFSJ), this title examines the main subject matter of the new AFSJ: migration, family reunion, asylum, police co-operation, and cooperation in matters of criminal law and procedure.

Contains a set of essays that examine different aspects of the impact of European Union law on national welfare state systems. This book looks at a different dimension of the subject: the effect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and its provisions on solidarity, equality and citizenship, and the elements of the Lisbon Agenda.

Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Under traditional approaches to human rights, non-state actors cannot be parties to the relevant treaties and so they are only bound to the extent that obligations accepted by States can be applied to them by governments. This situation threatens to make a mockery of much of the international system of accountability for human rights violations. The contributors to this volume examine the different approaches that might be taken in order to ensure some degree of accountability. Making space in the legal regime to take account of the role of non-State actors is one of the biggest and most critical challenges facing international law today.

This collection of essays brings together feminist scholars in a number of areas including international law, rights, citizenship, queer theory, constitutional law and migration studies to reflect on gender and human rights.

This collection of essays reflects on the fifth enlargement of the European Union, projected to take place in 2004. It examines the process of enlargement, its impact on both the candidate States and on the institutions and policies of the European Union.

The right to self-determination has been a driving force in international law and politics and in the 1970s it was joined by a number of other human rights including rights to development, peace, a clean environment, and humanitarian assistance. In this volume, the significance of these so-called 'third generation solidarity rights' are examined.