EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law
The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration. The constitutional implications of crisis-induced transformations have been much debated but have largely overlooked the tension between law and discretion that the post-2010 reforms have brought to the fore.

This book focuses on this tension and explores the ways in which legal norms may (or may not) constrain and structure the discretion of the EU executive. The developments in the EU's post-crisis financial and economic governance act as a reference point from which to analyze the normative problems pertaining to the law's relationship to the exercise of discretion. Structured in three parts, the book starts by analyzing the challenges to the maxim that the law both grounds and constrains EU executive and administrative discretion, setting out the concepts, problems and approaches to the relation between law and discretion both in general public law and in EU law. It progresses to analyze how these problems and approaches have unfolded in EU's financial, economic and monetary governance. Finally, it moves on from these specific developments to assess how existing legal principles and means of judicial review contribute to ensuring the rationality and legality of EU's discretionary powers.
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EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law
The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration. The constitutional implications of crisis-induced transformations have been much debated but have largely overlooked the tension between law and discretion that the post-2010 reforms have brought to the fore.

This book focuses on this tension and explores the ways in which legal norms may (or may not) constrain and structure the discretion of the EU executive. The developments in the EU's post-crisis financial and economic governance act as a reference point from which to analyze the normative problems pertaining to the law's relationship to the exercise of discretion. Structured in three parts, the book starts by analyzing the challenges to the maxim that the law both grounds and constrains EU executive and administrative discretion, setting out the concepts, problems and approaches to the relation between law and discretion both in general public law and in EU law. It progresses to analyze how these problems and approaches have unfolded in EU's financial, economic and monetary governance. Finally, it moves on from these specific developments to assess how existing legal principles and means of judicial review contribute to ensuring the rationality and legality of EU's discretionary powers.
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EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law

EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law

EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law

EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law

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Overview

The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration. The constitutional implications of crisis-induced transformations have been much debated but have largely overlooked the tension between law and discretion that the post-2010 reforms have brought to the fore.

This book focuses on this tension and explores the ways in which legal norms may (or may not) constrain and structure the discretion of the EU executive. The developments in the EU's post-crisis financial and economic governance act as a reference point from which to analyze the normative problems pertaining to the law's relationship to the exercise of discretion. Structured in three parts, the book starts by analyzing the challenges to the maxim that the law both grounds and constrains EU executive and administrative discretion, setting out the concepts, problems and approaches to the relation between law and discretion both in general public law and in EU law. It progresses to analyze how these problems and approaches have unfolded in EU's financial, economic and monetary governance. Finally, it moves on from these specific developments to assess how existing legal principles and means of judicial review contribute to ensuring the rationality and legality of EU's discretionary powers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198826668
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/02/2019
Pages: 282
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Joana Mendes, Professor, University of Luxembourg

Joana Mendes is Professor of Comparative Administrative Law at the University of Luxembourg, where she teaches comparative public law and EU law. A graduate from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), she has a doctorate from the European University Institute (Italy) and has held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School and has been a guest lecturer in different institutions. Her academic work has focused on the exercise of public authority in the EU, drawing on comparative public law

Table of Contents

Part One: EU Law and Executive Discretion - Concepts, Problems and Approaches1. Executive Discretion in the EU: Between National Traditions and EU Law, Joana Mendes2. Law and Discretion: A Public Law Perspective on the EU, Bernardo Mattarella3. Indeterminacy, Legal Uncertainty, and Discretion in EU Law, Takis Tridimas4. How Can EU Law Contain Executive Discretion?, Mark DawsonPart Two: EU Law and Executive Discretion in Financial, Economic, and Monetary Governance5. The European Supervisory Authorities Beyond Meroni, Niamh Moloney6. Discretion, Economic Governance, and the (New) Political Commission, Paivi Leino & Tuomas Saarenheimo7. Central Bank Independence, Discretion, and Judicial Review, Vestert BorgerPart Three: EU Discretion, Rationality, and Legality - Legal Principles and Means of Review8. The Principle of Proportionality in EU Law: An Interest-based Taxonomy, Vasiliki Kosta9. Interdependencies between Delegation, Discretion and the Duty of Care Regarding Facts, Herwig C.H. Hofmann10. Judicial Review of Complex Socio-Economic, Technical, and Scientific Assessments, Hanns Peter NehlPart Four: EU, Discretion, and Public Law - Conclusion11. Conclusion, Joana Mendes
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