This book details the rights of private parties to enforce principles of EU law, both before the national courts and the European courts of First Instance and Justice in Luxembourg. These originally amounted to two distinct bodies of case law. However, particularly since the advent of Member State liability in damages, there have been increasing trends toward convergence in relevant principles in private party EU litigation; whether the defendant is a Member State government authority or an EU institution. On the other hand, emphasis on 'individual rights' continues to be greater in cases...

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a new forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law, the law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a European dimension, and particularly those which have come to the front during the year preceding publication. The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Cambridge commissions the contributions appearing in the collection, which is the research Centre of Cambridge Universit Law Faculty specializing in European legal issues. The papers presented are all at the cutting edge of the fields which they...

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law, the Law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a -European- dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication. The contributions appearing in the collection are commissioned by the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Cambridge, which is the research Centre of Cambridge University Law Faculty specializing in European legal issues. The papers presented are all at the cutting edge of the fields which...