The 5th edition of this handbook provides a user-friendly introduction to comparative constitutional law. For each area of constitutional law, a general introduction and a comparative overview is provided, which is then followed by more detailed country chapters on that specific area. The author has expanded several chapters to provide for even more detail on national legal systems and constitutional comparison.

Deze zesde editie van dit klassieke handboek analyseert de beginselen van het recht van de Europese Unie na het Verdrag van Lissabon waarbij de hoofdlijnen van het Europees recht en de instellingen van de Europese Unie systematisch in kaart worden gebracht.

De Nederlandse accenten in het veiligheidsbeleid van de Europese Unie vormden het overkoepelend thema van deze bundel. Deze keuze werd ingegeven door het Nederlands Voorzitterschap van de Europese Unie in de eerste helft van 2016.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the objectives, principles and methods of EU Internal Market law. It focuses on the substantive law of the Internal Market, the strongest, most developed and most original part of EU law.

Founded to bring stability and investment to the war-torn countries of South-East Europe, the Energy Community has developed into Europe’s key instrument to secure energy supplies. Recent developments in Ukraine, one of the Energy Community’s members, as well as the incipient debate to create an Energy Union, highlight the importance of this organisation and its ever-increasing future relevance. This book offers unprecedented insight into all ...

The role of the European judiciary in the process of European integration cannot be overestimated. European integration after the second world war is usually analyzed from the perspective of political decisions. However, in the public debate we very often forget how much we owe to the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.

There is an increasing debate on the way in which the EU has developed and what it must look like in the future. This debate includes a discussion on one of the core aspects of European integration: at which level should the rules be set and who decides where the authority to do so should lie? Private law has an important role to play in this discussion. Many private law rules touch on the core of the internal market as they serve to foster tr...

This book analyzes the approach of the EU to crisis management in the aftermath of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and assesses its suitability to address current and future security threats.

One of the main objectives of this research is to examine this influence and more specifically the influence of EU law on cooperation between public authorities.