A Common Law For Europe

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This is an essential guide for lawmakers, scholars, and students of law, this work takes on the formidable task of providing a detailed overview of the harmonization of law in the European Union. Skillfully researched, the authors seek to approach this topic with an eye to the recent enlargement process. In highlighting the most recent actions of the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, the book seeks to analyze the future strengths and pitfalls of EU Common Law. Court rulings are quoted at length, and work in conjunction with text inserts in providing a format that breaks down complex information. This open style of the book gives researchers the ability to quickly locate useful information and cite statements from EU institutions.

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A Common Law for Europe A Guide to European Private Law A Common Law for Europe by Gian Antonio Benacchio and Barbara Pasa Translated by Lesley Orme Central European University Press Budapest New York ©2005 by Gian Antonio Benacchio and Barbara Pasa English translation © by Lesley Orme Published in 2005 by Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Share Company Nádor utca 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36-1-327-3138 or 327-3000 Fax: +36-1-327-3183 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ceupress.com 400 West 59th Street, New York NY 10019, USA Tel: +1-212-547-6932 Fax: +1-646-557-2416 E-mail: [email protected] Translated by Lesley Orme All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publisher. ISBN 963 732633 2cloth ISSN 1815-0764 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Benacchio, Gian Antonio. A common law for Europe / by Gian Antonio Benacchio and Barbara Pasa. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9637326332 (hb) -- ISBN 9637326340 (pb) 1. Law--Europe--International unification. 2. Law--European Union countries. I. Pasa, Barbara. II. Title. KJE960.B45 2005 341.242'2--dc22 2005011522 Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Nyomda TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I: Private Law of the European Community: The Process of Harmonization, Uniformization, and Unification . 7 1. Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. European Union and European Community . . . . . . . . . . . 3. The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe . . . . . . 4. ‘European’ Federalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. The Last Enlargement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. Economic and Monetary Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. The Acquis Communautaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. The Dynamics of Legal Transplants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Defining ‘European Community Private Law’ . . . . . . . . . 10. Unification and Uniformization of the Law . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Harmonization of the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Effects on National Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. ‘Communitarization’ of National Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. Areas of Law which are Affected by European Community Private Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15. Comparative Law and European Community Private Law Bibliography Chapter I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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