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NEW EDITION

EU Law Directions

Nigel Foster

Price: £25.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923035-8
Publication date: 24 April 2008
400 pages, 264x195 mm
Series: Directions Series
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Written in a clear, uncomplicated style with engaging learning features, enabling students new to EU law to understand what is really central to the subject
The new European Treaty is fully incorporated into the text
Thinking points and end-of-chapter questions with suggested answers on the website encourage students to test and reinforce their own learning and provide areas for discussion
Case close up boxes highlight leading cases and developments and help guide students through the key areas of EU law
Written by Nigel Foster, a Jean Monnet Professor of European law with over 24 years experience of teaching EU law teaching and examining; the text is both accessible and academically rigorous ensuring students understand all the core topics of this subject

EU Law Directions is written in an informal and engaging manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered in EU courses with clarity. No previous knowledge is assumed making this is an ideal main text for those encountering EU law for the first time. The book is logically structured and set out in a manner aimed to make EU law less complicated.

The book takes you through all the important aspects of EU law needed for degree level study and examination, from the reasons behind the setting up of the European Communities in the first place to the development of very important substantive areas of law now such as European Citizenship and the continuing development of the law on the free movement of goods.

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Timeline
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Revision material - study and examination techniques
Legislation and case updates

Lecturer resources
Testbank of questions (including questions in text) 150

Readership: Suitable for undergraduate students taking a module in EU law as part of a LLB degree course.

Contents

Part 1: Institutional Law

1. The Establishment and Development of the EU

2. The Widening and Deepening of the EU

3. The Union Institutions

4. Community Law: Sources, Forms and Law Making

5. EU Law: Transfer, Competences and Supremacy

Part 2: Procedural Law

6. The Preliminary Ruling (Article 234)

7. ECJ Remedies: Direct and Indirect Effects and State Liability

8. Enforcement Actions against Member States

9. Direct actions before the ECJ

Part 3: Substantive Law

10. Free Movement of Goods 1: Tarrif & Tax Barriers

11. Free Movement of Goods 2: Non-Tarrif Barriers

12. Free Movement of Persons 1

13. Free Movement of Persons 2: European Union Citizenship

14. Sex Discrimination Law

Authors, editors, and contributors

Nigel Foster, Jean Monnet Professor of European Law and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Buckingham

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More in the same subject area:
EU law: constitutional & administrative
EU courts & procedure

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