Eu Equality Law

The First Fundamental Rights Policy of the Eu
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-881466-5
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers. Although these powers do not include an all-encompassing fundamental rights' mandate, today's existential challenges - from economic to refugee crisis, via concerns for compliance with the rule of law in some of its Member States - increase the pressure on the EU to develop tools for protection and promotion of such rights.

One way of addressing the tension between the lack of a general mandate and vivid calls for protection is for the EU to focus on selected fundamental rights which it has competence to regulate. One such example is EU law on the fundamental right to equal treatment that has blossomed since the late 1990s. In developing selected fundamental right policies that can be imposed on domestic actors, as EU law does, supranational intervention needs to be carefully tailored to the plural landscape where they are intended to flourish.

This monograph calls for a nuanced use of the infrastructure of EU law to convey shared values at domestic level across Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muir, Elise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Checks and Balances in the Process of Fundamental Rights' Law-Making in the EU

- 3: EU Equality Law at a Constitutional Crossroads

- 4: Distinguishing Legislation giving Expression to Fundamental Rights: Lessons from EU Equality Law

- 5: The Legislative Embedding of the Governance of EU Equality Law

- 6: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Elise Muir is Professor of EU Law, and head of the Institute for European Law at KU Leuven.