This book examines how the increasing interdependence between trade and foreign policy can be managed within the legal framework of the European Union. In the context of the legally distinct characteristics of the European Community and the Common Foreign and Security Policy, it analyzes the problems underpinning the regulation of three areas: sanctions against third countries, armaments, and exports of dual-use goods. The focus is on whether the constitutional order of the European Union may address these problems while performing a variety of functions: ensuring the consistency and...

A lively debate on the constitutionalization of the international legal order has emerged in recent years. A similar debate has also taken place within the European Union. This book compliments that debate, exploring the underlying realities and focusing on the substantive interconnections which the EU has developed over the years with the rest of the world. It assesses the practical impact which these have, both on the development of the EU's legal order, as well as that of the international community. Based on papers delivered at the bi-annual EU-International Law Forum organized by the...

Piracy at sea is a phenomenon which has steadily grown in significance, recently attracting the attention of international policy-makers. The financial cost of piracy was estimated to have reached $7 billion by 2011, not including the cost of protecting vessels, prosecuting and imprisoning pirates, and capacity-building in national and regional capacity anti-piracy efforts. Moreover, piracy is intrinsically linked to State failure and other pathologies bred by it, such as organized crime and terrorism. This collection of essays provides a comprehensive assessment of the legal and policy...

This collection of essays brings together contributions from judges, legal scholars and practitioners in order to provide a comprehensive assessment of the law and practice of exceptions from the principle of free movement. It aims: - to conceptualise how justification arguments relating to exceptions to free movement operate in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts; - to develop a comprehensive and original account of empirical problems on the application of proportionality; - to explore the legal and policy issues which shape the interactions between...

This new edition provides the definitive, comprehensive, and systematic analysis of the law governing the EU's action in the world. Updated to take into account the Lisbon Treaty, the book covers: all constitutional aspects of the EU's international action * the procedures for treaty-making * the relationship between the EU and its Member States, with an emphasis on mixed agreements * the relationship between EU and public international law * the EU and international organizations, such as WTO and ECHR * the EU and economic relations generally. It also covers the EU's links with its neighbors...