A Critical Introduction to European Law (Law in Context) - Softcover

Ward, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521711584 ISBN 13: 9780521711586

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Written by one of the leading academics specialising in European law and legal theory, A Critical Introduction to European Law explains the history and institutional framework of European Union law to students and scholars. Through the inclusion of commentaries on successive drafts of the Constitutional and Lisbon treaties, and discussion of recent developments such as the Turkish application, this third edition explores the evolving role of the EU in international and global politics. A consciously interdisciplinary approach, which draws on a variety of materials from political and legal thought, social theory, economic analysis, literature, history and cultural studies, is deployed to make the present state of Union law comprehensible.

About this title

Book Description:

Written by one of the leading specialists in European law and legal theory, this third edition explains the history and institutional framework of European Union law. It includes commentaries on successive drafts of the Constitutional and Lisbon treaties and discusses recent developments such as the Turkish application.

About the Author:

Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle Law School. He has previously worked at the Universities of Durham, Sussex and Dundee and has held a variety of visiting appointments at Universities in North America and across Europe. He has published extensively in associated areas of Public Law, European Law and Legal Theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521711584
• ISBN 13: 9780521711586
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 316