The Governance of EU Fundamental Rights

by Mark Dawson

Overview

In spite of a continued increase in the substantive scope and reach of EU fundamental rights, little attention has been paid to their practical enforcement. In this book, Mark Dawson looks at the mechanisms through which EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced, closely examining the interrelation between the EU's pertinent legal and political bodies. He argues that in order to understand EU fundamental rights we must also understand the institutional, political and normative constraints that shape the EU's policies. The book examines the performance of different EU institutions in relation to rights and studies two important policy fields - social rights and rule of law protection - in depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107070493
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/16/2017
Series:	Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Mark Dawson has been Professor of European Law and Governance at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin since 2012. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence in 2009 and has been a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Harvard Kennedy School. His recent publications include New Governance and the Transformation of European Law (Cambridge, 2011) and Beyond the Crisis (with Henrik Enderlein and Christian Joerges, 2015). He has written peer-reviewed articles for both law and political science journals, including the European Law Journal, the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review and the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Critiquing and theorising the governance of EU fundamental rights; 2. The Court of Justice in the governance of EU fundamental rights; 3. Fundamental rights and the political institutions; 4. Governing justice and the rule of law; 5. Governing fundamental social rights; 6. Epilogue - accession, asylum and the politics of human rights.