Human Rights in EU Law : Justice, Terrorism and Constitutional Reform

ISBN-13: 9783639144253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str.

Stephen Carruthers

Opis

The 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam introduced as anobjective the maintenance and development of theUnion as an area of freedom, security and justice ,but while it extended the Union s security powers itdid little to improve the status of human rights.This book critically analyses the sources andnormative status of human rights in European Unionlaw, with a particular focus on theirinter-relationship with international law, andassesses the impact of the 2003 reforms submitted bythe Convention on the Future of Europe which formedthe basis for the reforms in the 2004 Constitutionfor Europe and the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon. Anillustrative case study examines in detail the statusof the principle of non-refoulement in the CommonEuropean Asylum System. This book will be of interestboth to lawyers and political scientists seeking tounderstand the development and rationale of humanrights protection in Union law in the context of thereform proposals leading up to the 2004 Constitutionfor Europe and the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon.

O autorze

Stephen Carruthers, PhD, studied Law at Cambridge University. He
is admitted to the Bar of England and Wales. He has worked as a
lawyer at the Paris Office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
and with the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. He is
currently a lecturer in the Department of Law at the Dublin
Institute of Technology.