Beset by disagreement and challenges to its legitimacy and effectiveness, the European Union could be said to be at a crisis point. The debates are myriad and complex, the literature vast and conflicting. This Oxford Handbook provides an invaluable guide to understanding the critical debates in the field, pointing the direction for future research.

Anthony Arnull, Barber Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Birmingham, Damian Chalmers, Professor of EU Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Part I: Conceptualizing EU Law


• 1: Neil Walker: The Philosophy of European Union Law


• 2: Jan Komarek: Legal Reasoning in EU Law


• 3: Jan Klabbers: Straddling the Fence: The EU and International Law


• Part II: The Architecture of EU Law


• 4: Robert Schutze: EU Competences: Existence and Exercise


• 5: Deirdre Curtin and Tatevik Manucharyan: Legal Acts and Hierarchy of Norms in EU Law


• 6: Christoph Hillion: Accession and Withdrawal in the Law of the European Union


• 7: Michal Bobek: The Court of Justice of the European Union


• 8: Monica Claes: Primacy and the National Reception


• 9: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Direct Effect, Effective Judicial Protection, and State Liability


• 10: Andrew Williams: Human Rights in the EU


• 11: Panos Koutrakos: Common External Policies: Common Commercial Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Common Security and Defence Policy


• Part III: Making and Administering EU Law


• 12: Damian Chalmers: The Democratic Ambiguity of EU Law-Making and its Enemies


• 13: Alexander Turk: Comitology


• 14: Melanie Smith: The Evolution of Infringement and Sanction Procedures: Of Pilots, Diversions, Collisions, and Circling


• 15: Anthony Arnull: Judicial Review in the European Union


• 16: Takis Tridimas: Dialogue with National Courts


• 17: Paul Craig: Accountability and Representation in EU Law


• Part IV: The Economic Constitution and the Citizen


• 18: Eleanor Spaventa: The Free Movement of Workers in the 21st Century


• 19: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: The Developing Legal Dimensions of Union Citizenship


• 20: Kenneth Armstrong: Goods


• 21: Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin: Establishment


• 22: Gareth Davies: The Law on the Free Movement of Services: Powerful, but not always Persuasive


• Part V: Regulation of the Market Place


• 23: Loïc Azoulai: The Complex Weave of Harmonization


• 24: Okeoghene Odudu: Competition and Merger Law and Policy


• 25: Alison Jones: Competition Law Enforcement


• 26: Andrea Biondi and Elisabetta Righini: An Evolutionary Theory of State Aid Control


• 27: Catherine Seville: EU Intellectual Property: Exercises in Harmonization


• Part VI: Economic, Fiscal, and Monetary Union


• 28: Fabian Amtenbrink: The Metamorphosis of European Economic and Monetary Union


• 29: Niamh Moloney: Financial Markets Regulation


• 30: Thomas Horsley: Death, Taxes, and (Targeted) Judicial Dynamism: The Free Movement of Capital in EU Law


• 31: Paul Farmer: Direct Taxation and the Fundamental Freedoms


• Part VII: The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 32: Christopher Harding: EU Criminal Law under the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 33: Nadine El-Enany: EU Migration and Asylum Law under the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 34: Richard Fentiman: The Harmonization of Civil Jurisdiction


• Part VIII: Beyond the Regulatory State?


• 35: Elise Muir: Pursuing Equality in the EU


• 36: Phil Syrpis: The EU and National Systems of Labour Law


• 37: Mark Dawson and Bruno De Witte: Welfare Policy and Social Inclusion


• 38: Maria Lee: Experts and Publics in EU Environmental Law