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The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing a reliable and invaluable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explain the intellectual challenges of each area of the law. Noted for its clarity, European Union Law gives a systematic overview of the European institutions and provides thorough, wide ranging coverage of the key substantive law topics making it an ideal first text for undergraduate, GDL and PGDL EU law courses. Fully updated following the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the book covers important topics such as discrimination law and environmental policy to show how the EU has moved away from strictly economic areas of activity. Incisive analysis of the governing themes and principles of EU law is consistently delivered and chapter summaries, questions, further reading, and web links help to guide the reader through the subject. Online Resource Centre This book is accompanied by an innovative Online Resource Centre containing: Annual updates on developments in the law post publication Links to key websites providing a perfect entry to online research and wider reading Video clips from the commission archives providing valuable context and insight into the development of the EU An interactive map of the EU containing information on each of the member states An animated timeline showing the key stages in the legal history of the EU
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Margot Horspool is Emeritus Professor of European and Comparative Law at the University of Surrey; Professorial Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London; and Professor of European Law at the College of Europe. Matthew Humphreys is the Head of School and Professor of Law at the Kingston University Law School. He is also a Professor at the University of Notre Dame and has served as a Professor at Queens University, Ontario, and as visiting lecturer at Hong Kong University.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is intended to be an introductory text to EU law, and gives a good coverage of the basic subject area. In addition, the start of each chapter comes with a useful summary of the materials that will be covered – and the various subject areas are well organised to enable students to gradually build-up their understanding of the law in this area.
Horspool presents an excellent range of key cases for students, and she provides useful cross-referencing, which help make clear how various subjects fit together. Helpfully too, the author provides a good selection of useful quotations from judgements and opinions.
However, much of the text isn’t written in a particularly user-friendly way. Her sentences are sometimes unnecessarily complicated or confused, and it can take two or three readings to make sense of certain points.
Overall, it’s a good book for the basics, especially if you already have some knowledge of the subject or are using this as a supplementary text. However, if you’re completely new to the subject, this won’t be a straightforward read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Margot Horspool's textbook on European Union Law is divided into nineteen chapters. The first two chapters serve as an introduction and deal with the historical development of the European Communities and European Union as well as the basis of the Communities, i.e. the treaties. The institutions being dealt with in chapter 3, chapter 4 ("The Community legal system") deals with the different sources of Community Law (primary and secondary legislation) and legislative procedures. What follows is in the subsequent chapters a coverage of the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) jurisdiction, of the principles of direct effect, supremacy of EC law and remedies. Of course, the book also deals with the freedoms of Community law (free movement of goods, workers,...) and sex discrimination, too. There are even chapters on competition policy and intellectual property, which are not necessarily covered in a course on EC law, since there are special courses on these two areas of law.
The book is an introductory book and as such it cannot replace more comprehensive works such as Craig and de Búrca's "EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials", especially when writing an essay. It is, however, a very good book due to its clear and concise language. The major decisions of the ECJ's caselaw are dealt with. It is relatively small (440 pages) without being superficial. At the end of each chapter there are self-test questions. The book is very helpful during the preparation for exams as it can be read in a relatively small amount of time.
The book is an introductory book and as such it cannot replace more comprehensive works such as Craig and de Búrca's "EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials", especially when writing an essay. It is, however, a very good book due to its clear and concise language. The major decisions of the ECJ's caselaw are dealt with. It is relatively small (440 pages) without being superficial. At the end of each chapter there are self-test questions. The book is very helpful during the preparation for exams as it can be read in a relatively small amount of time.
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I hate this book with a passion, the content may be great (I do not know) but the size is terrible, the font is too small, the book is too small and you have to handle it in the same way you would handle an ancient artefact, open it too much and it will snap in half. VERY UNCOMFORTABLE TO READ! I have resulted to using another book because of this issue I recommend you buy the book by Hartley 'The Foundations of EU Law', it does the same job in a neater way and the writer is very engaging. Waste of money.
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Studying EU Law? Avoid at all cost!
Sentences spanning over 6-7 lines are not uncommon. Before you reach an end you will need to start over again.
By far the worst law book I ever read.
By far the worst law book I ever read.
Published 19 months ago by Adam Sierant
a dull reading on EU law
This is the book given by the college to the GDL students,and as a student, I must say that I found it very boring to read. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2009 by obstante
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