The Legal Effects of EU Agreements
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Comprehensively examining the legal effects of EU concluded treaties, this book provides a thorough analysis of this increasingly important and rapidly growing area of EU law. The EU has concluded more than 1000 treaties including recently its first human rights treaty (the UN Rights of Persons with Disability Convention). These agreements are regularly invoked in litigation in the Courts of the member states and before the EU courts in Luxembourg but their ramifications for the EU legal order and that of the member states remains underexplored.

Through analysis of over 300 cases, the author finds evidence of a twin-track approach whereby the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) adopts a maximalist approach to Treaty enforcement where EU agreements are invoked in challenges to member state level action whilst largely insulating EU action from meaningful review vis-a-vis agreements. The book also reveals novel findings regarding the use of EU agreements in EU level litigation including: the types and which specific EU agreements (including the types of provisions) have arisen in litigation; the nature of the proceedings (preliminary rulings or direct actions) and the number of occasions in which they have been addressed in challenges to member state or EU action and the outcomes; who has been litigating (individuals, institutions, or member states) and which domestic courts have been referring questions to the CJEU.

The significance of the judicial developments in this area are situated within the context of the domestic constitutional ramifications for member state legal orders thus revealing a neglected dimension in the constitutionalization debates which traditionally emphasized the ramifications of internal EU law for the domestic constitutional order without expressly accommodating the constitutional significance of this external category of EU law nor the different challenges that this poses domestically.

This volume will serve as a reference point for future work in this area and will also be of assistance to EU law practitioners dealing with EU agreements.
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The Legal Effects of EU Agreements
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Comprehensively examining the legal effects of EU concluded treaties, this book provides a thorough analysis of this increasingly important and rapidly growing area of EU law. The EU has concluded more than 1000 treaties including recently its first human rights treaty (the UN Rights of Persons with Disability Convention). These agreements are regularly invoked in litigation in the Courts of the member states and before the EU courts in Luxembourg but their ramifications for the EU legal order and that of the member states remains underexplored.

Through analysis of over 300 cases, the author finds evidence of a twin-track approach whereby the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) adopts a maximalist approach to Treaty enforcement where EU agreements are invoked in challenges to member state level action whilst largely insulating EU action from meaningful review vis-a-vis agreements. The book also reveals novel findings regarding the use of EU agreements in EU level litigation including: the types and which specific EU agreements (including the types of provisions) have arisen in litigation; the nature of the proceedings (preliminary rulings or direct actions) and the number of occasions in which they have been addressed in challenges to member state or EU action and the outcomes; who has been litigating (individuals, institutions, or member states) and which domestic courts have been referring questions to the CJEU.

The significance of the judicial developments in this area are situated within the context of the domestic constitutional ramifications for member state legal orders thus revealing a neglected dimension in the constitutionalization debates which traditionally emphasized the ramifications of internal EU law for the domestic constitutional order without expressly accommodating the constitutional significance of this external category of EU law nor the different challenges that this poses domestically.

This volume will serve as a reference point for future work in this area and will also be of assistance to EU law practitioners dealing with EU agreements.
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The Legal Effects of EU Agreements

The Legal Effects of EU Agreements

by Mario Mendez
The Legal Effects of EU Agreements

The Legal Effects of EU Agreements

by Mario Mendez

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Comprehensively examining the legal effects of EU concluded treaties, this book provides a thorough analysis of this increasingly important and rapidly growing area of EU law. The EU has concluded more than 1000 treaties including recently its first human rights treaty (the UN Rights of Persons with Disability Convention). These agreements are regularly invoked in litigation in the Courts of the member states and before the EU courts in Luxembourg but their ramifications for the EU legal order and that of the member states remains underexplored.

Through analysis of over 300 cases, the author finds evidence of a twin-track approach whereby the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) adopts a maximalist approach to Treaty enforcement where EU agreements are invoked in challenges to member state level action whilst largely insulating EU action from meaningful review vis-a-vis agreements. The book also reveals novel findings regarding the use of EU agreements in EU level litigation including: the types and which specific EU agreements (including the types of provisions) have arisen in litigation; the nature of the proceedings (preliminary rulings or direct actions) and the number of occasions in which they have been addressed in challenges to member state or EU action and the outcomes; who has been litigating (individuals, institutions, or member states) and which domestic courts have been referring questions to the CJEU.

The significance of the judicial developments in this area are situated within the context of the domestic constitutional ramifications for member state legal orders thus revealing a neglected dimension in the constitutionalization debates which traditionally emphasized the ramifications of internal EU law for the domestic constitutional order without expressly accommodating the constitutional significance of this external category of EU law nor the different challenges that this poses domestically.

This volume will serve as a reference point for future work in this area and will also be of assistance to EU law practitioners dealing with EU agreements.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199606610
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/08/2013
Series: Oxford Studies in European Law
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mario Mendez is a lecturer in law at Queen Mary, University of London. He completed his undergraduate law degree at QMUL and his graduate studies at the College of William and Mary (LLM), Oxford (BCL), and the EUI (Ph.D). He has worked for the Academy of European Law at the EUI and has been a trainee at the European Commission and a visiting researcher scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. He has acted as a consultant on issues of EU law.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Legal Effect of Treaties in Domestic Legal Orders and the Role of Domestic Courts: Framing the Debate2. The Constitutionalization of Community Agreements: Revisiting the Foundational Jurisprudence3. The Trade Agreements Jurisprudence of the Community Courts: Embracing the Maximalist Approach to Treaty Enforcement? 4. The GATT and WTO before the Community Courts: Rejecting the Maximalist Approach to Treaty Enforcement, or a Case Apart? 5. The Non-Trade Agreements before the Community Courts: From Embracing to Retreating from Maximalist Treaty Enforcement6. Reviewing the Legality of Community Agreements7. Concluding Assessment: The Emergence of a Twin-Track Approach to Treaty Enforcement? Appendix: Community Agreements Case Law Data Set
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