EU External Relations and the Power of Law - by Kenneth A Armstrong & Joanne Scott & Anne Thies (Hardcover)

About the Book

"How powerful are EU external relations? For a long time, the law in this field was seen merely as an adjunct to constitutional law and the law of internal markets. However, in the last 20 years it has become a key tenet of the European Union, as globalisation and cross-border challenges have taken hold. Few have done more to shape the field's evolution than Marise Cremona, and this collection pays tribute to her immense contribution. In addition to assessing the power of the EU on the global stage, the book explores how its institutions and indeed people navigate transnational and global relations"--

Book Synopsis

The breadth and depth of the scholarship of Marise Cremona is honoured in this collection of essays written by her colleagues and friends.

Taking Cremona's field-defining research as a point of reference, this collection of research articles examines the power of law in EU external relations. Echoing the expansive scope of Cremona's intellectual enquiries across the growing and diversifying field of external relations law, this volume offers new insights into the principles and procedures that underlie this area of law; the role and responsibilities of the EU as an international actor; and the strategies and instruments through which the Union pursues its external agenda.

Spanning the analysis of foundational concepts and more contemporary interventions in respect of the environment, human rights, foreign direct investment and even Brexit, what emerges from this collection is a richly conceptualised and clear examination of the multiple ways in which the power of law captures or eludes the EU's construction of a domain of external relations; a domain in which the EU interacts not only with its Member States but also other subjects of the international legal order.

About the Author

Kenneth A Armstrong is Professor of European Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Joanne Scott is Professor of Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Anne Thies is Professor of International and European Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.