This work consists of interrelated essays by many past and present members of the European University Institute (EUI) Law Department. The contributors' essays address such issues as: the effects of integration upon certain national laws; the elaboration of EU law to provide a new framework for or replacement for national laws; the piecemeal development of specific legal strands of EU law and their intertwining with national or international laws; and the indirect and sometimes unintended consequences of European integration with regard to national, EU or international law.

Over recent years, European Community (EC) competition law has come under fire. Continued criticism of all aspects of the means by which EC competition law is enforced has brought to light the ineffectiveness of the system. Consequently, the European Commission has responded by issuing the White Paper on Modernisation, which sets out its vision on the future of EC competition law.

This work places international trade law within an economic, political and sociological context, contending that globalisation is characterised by both homogeneity and diversity. However, while implying changes within contracting parties, globalization only results in a thin homogeneity. Furthermore, globalization is the result of the interaction, negotiations and policies between states. From this perspective, the book attempts to explain trade policy as resulting from domestic factors. Thus, if globalization is characterized by diversity, how do such differences affect the trade policy of...

The processes of legal and economic integration at a regional and global scale have created powerful legal and economic dilemmas. They challenge the paradigms of constitutionalism, including the State's monopoly of constitutionalism, the autonomy of national political communities and the traditional forms of participation and representation. The phenomena of globalization and regional forms of governance have promoted the interdependence of national political communities and destroyed the artificial boundaries upon which national constitutional democracies are found and from which they derive...