) case law on family reunification immigration. Particular attention is paid to the use of fundamental rights considerations …, and the extent to which they guide the Court’s judicial deliberations in this sovereignty-sensitive area of law. Our … the strongest discursive influence on the overall evolution of the case law. Our analysis demonstrates that fundamental …

Justice (ECJ) have resulted in uncertainty concerning the interaction of EU law with social services and more generally public … Directives, EU public procurement and competition law. The implementation of liberalisation plans in the UK well before any EU … has not led to the absence of concerns regarding the precise impact of EU law in this area. Recent policy initiatives by …

This paper mainly explores how law-based neo-functionalism can contribute to explain the legal development of the … (Slaughter) and Mattli in the 1990s expects spill-overs because it assumes that subnational actors try to overcome national law … the EAEC’s and/or its competences by means of actions against member states. By analysing ECJ case law on Euratom, the …

constitutional law, legislation and implementation. It highlights the importance of the correlation between the catalogue of …

to be bound by EU fundamental rights when they derogate from Community law, or "Union law" in future. The same is true …, second, as regards the question of whether and under what conditions the supremacy of Community law (or, according to the … Praesidium's draft Article 9, "the law of the Union") cannot supersede national fundamental rights. A third fundamental problem …

The paper makes an attempt to map the Copenhagen criterion of democracy and the rule of law, one of the main … more than ten years ago, at the time of introduction of the criterion. How should democracy and rule of law be interpreted … law criterion was not really full, consistent and impartial and that the threshold to meet this criterion was very low. As …

culture of secrecy in Britain. Recent calls for a uniform interpretation of the law regarding public access to documents held …