The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member States in relation to crime and criminal law. However, for what is now an important area of law, there remains a striking absence or uncertainty regarding its theoretical basis, its legitimacy and its conceptual vocabulary.

This book offers a review of the significance of EU criminal law and crime policy as a rapidly emerging phenomenon in European law and governance. Bringing together an international set of contributors, the book questions the nature, role...

The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has brought about a proliferation of -integration principles-. In addition to the environmental integration principle, which has been part of the EU legal framework for some time, the Lisbon Treaty introduced the principles of gender equality integration, social policy integration, non-discrimination integration, consumer protection integration as well as animal welfare integration. Furthermore, a general principle of integration policy objectives is contained in Article 7 TFEU, requiring that the Union must ensure consistency between its policies...

Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration, this book examines the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life, citizenship, and free movement, it analyzes the combined impact of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights on the concept of the family protected by the law in light of recent case law. Considering the broadening understanding of what constitutes family, the challenges for the right to family life in the context of immigration, and the...

The phenomenon of agencification describes the EU legislator s increasing establishment of European agencies to fulfil tasks in a variety of EU policies. The creation of these decentralised administrative entities raises a number of questions; for example, on the limits to such delegation of powers, on the agencies institutional development and possible classification, and on the role of comitology committees as an institutional alternative.

This book examines the EU s agencification with regard to these questions, on the basis of and with reference to which the focus is laid on the...

This study examines a key aspect of regulatory policy in the field of data protection, namely the frameworks governing the sharing of data for law enforcement purposes, both within the EU and between the EU and the US and other third party countries. The work features a thorough analysis of the main data-sharing instruments that have been used by law enforcement agencies and the intelligence services in the EU and in the US between 2001 to 2015. The study also explores the challenges to data protection which the current frameworks create, and explores the possible responses to those...

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union.

Using the concepts and principles embedded in the theories of egalitarianism and libertarianism, this book analyses the impact of the Internal Market rules on common values and principles shared by European health systems, such as universality, accessibility, equity and solidarity. This analysis is conducted using the specific issue of cross-border health care....

This book offers an original perspective on EU financial law in the area of retail investor protection by conducting comparisons both externally (to international proposals) and internally (among EU law sectors and specific instruments in relation to one another). In so doing, this study represents a valuable addition to the literature on retail investor protection in the EU.

Sabrina Ragone is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.

Aiming to map out the constitutional challenges deriving from the European and Eurasian integration processes and identify options for constitutional reform to ensure post-Soviet countries' effective participation in those processes, this book studies the implications of ongoing regional integration projects for the constitutional orders of post-Soviet countries affected by the processes of European and Eurasian integration. Examining the implications of regional integration for the national constitutional orders of key post-Soviet countries, it provides detailed reports on constitutional...