Individual Rights in EU Law

✍ Scribed by Bjarte Thorson (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 392
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the EU law notion of ‘individual rights’. It examines which sorts of rules grant EU legal rights to individuals, how it is decided if a right is conferred, and which individuals may claim the judicial protection of a right. It further discusses the legal implications and consequences of holding an EU legal right with respect to the interpretation and application of EU law in general and to specific remedies such as declaratory remedies, injunctions, restitution and damages. On a more overarching level, the book explores the question of how the idea of EU law rights relates to other fundamental EU law concepts such as the principles of effectiveness and direct effect, and discusses the legal stringency of the EU courts’ ‘rights language’ in light of the overall aim of European integration. It thus contributes to the body of literature that aims to shed new light on the borders of the sui generis legal order that is EU law.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Topic ‘Individual Rights in European Union Law’....Pages 3-7
Individual Rights in EU Law: General Sub-Topics and Issues....Pages 9-30
A Study of the Notion of EU Law Rights: Plan and Methodology....Pages 31-33
Genesis of the European Union Law Right....Pages 35-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Overview: Implementation, Interpretation and Application of Rules that Grant Individual Rights....Pages 43-43
National Implementation of Directives that Entail the Grant of Individual Rights....Pages 45-57
Interpretation of Provisions that Grant Individual Rights....Pages 59-67
Application of Norms that Grant Rights....Pages 69-80
Summary of Part Two: Implementation, Interpretation and Application of Norms that Grant Rights....Pages 81-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Overview: Judicial Protection of Individual Rights....Pages 85-92
Primary Remedies....Pages 93-156
Secondary Rights and Remedies....Pages 157-186
Summary of Part Three: Rights and Remedies....Pages 187-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Overview: Conferral of EU Law Individual Rights....Pages 191-191
Sources of Rights....Pages 193-225
Determination of Individual Rights....Pages 227-273
Functions and Types of Rights....Pages 275-296
Protective Purpose....Pages 297-313
Extent of the Protection....Pages 315-339
Summary of Part Four: Conferral of EU Law Individual Rights....Pages 341-344
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
On the Nature of the European Union Law Right....Pages 347-351
On ‘Rights Language’....Pages 353-354
On the Delineation of European Union Law....Pages 355-357
Back Matter....Pages 359-395

✦ Subjects

European Law; Human Rights; European Union Politics