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Judicial Control in the European Union

Reforming Jurisdiction in the Intergovernmental Pillars

by (author) Alicia Hinarejos

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2010
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780199569960
    Publish Date
    Jan 2010
    List Price
    $126.00

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The EU's activity under its intergovernmental pillars - The Common Foreign and Security Policy and Justice and Home Affairs - has traditionally been beyond the scope of judicial control offered by the central EC legal system. The increasing importance of this activity, and its growing intrusion into the lives of individuals, has led to a sense that the level of judicial oversight and protection is insufficient and that the constitutional balance of the Union stands in urgent need of reform. While the need for reform is widely recognised, wholesale constitutional change has been stalled by the failure to ratify the Constitutional Treaty and the delay in ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon.

This book charts the attempts to develop more satisfactory judicial control over the intergovernmental pillars in the face of such constitutional inertia. It examines the leading role played by the European Court of Justice in reforming its own jurisdiction, and analyses the ECJ's development as a constitutional court in comparison with more established constitutional adjudicators. Throughout the book the current constitutional position is compared extensively to the reforms introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon, offering a timely snapshot of the EU's federal structure in a state of flux.

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Contributor Notes

Alicia Hinarejos is William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor at McGill University.