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Black, White, and Shades of Grey: Horizontality of Directives Revisited

European Union Law: Text and Materials

In an article published in 1983, Pierre Pescatore who, as a Member of the Court of Justice, exercised a powerful intellectual influence over the development of European Community law during what might be deemed the Court’s Golden Age, once described direct effect as ‘an infant disease’. What he meant was that, in the early years of the Community, it may have seemed remarkable, even dangerous, that provisions of the EC Treaty or of acts adopted under it could give rise to rights and correlative duties which national courts were called upon to recognise and enforce. But now that Community law had reached maturity, direct effect should be taken for granted, as a normal incident of an advanced constitutional order.

From Van Duyn to Mangold via Marshall: Reducing Direct Effect to Absurdity?

Remedies for violation of eu law by member state courts. what place for the köbler doctrine

Preface Latest developments Acknowledgements How to use this book Abbreviations Table of cases Numerical table of ECJ cases Table of treaties and other instruments Table of panels 1. Introduction Part I. The European Union: 2. Origins 3. Legislative institutions 4. Legislative powers Part II. International Adjudication: 5. Institutions: an overview 6. The problem of compliance 7. Interpretation Part III. Relations Between Legal Systems: International Law, Community Law and National Law: 8. The role of international law 9. The Community Treaties in the legal systems of the member states 10. The direct effect of directives 11. Enforcement of EU law in member-state courts Part IV. The Community and the World System: 12. The conclusion of treaties 13. International law in the community legal system Part V. Fundamental Rights: 14. The Human-Rights revolution 15. European Court and the Bundesverfassungsgericht 16. Selected topic: abortion 17. The Human Rights Convention and the EU: a clash of two systems? Part VI. Direct Actions in the European Court: 18. Remedies available to private litigants - I 19. Remedies available to private litigants - II Part VII. Substantive Law - A Taste: 20. The Common Market - I 21. Establishing the Common Market - II Index.

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