EU Citizens’ Economic Rights in Action
EU Citizens’ Economic Rights in Action

Author: Sybe de Vries

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1788113462

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Ever since its inception, one of the essential tasks of the EU has been to establish the internal market. Despite the impressive body of case law and legislation regarding the internal market, legal and factual barriers still exist for citizens seeking to exercise their full rights under EU law. This book analyses these barriers and proposes ways in which they may be overcome. Next to analysing the key barriers to exercising economic rights more generally, this book focuses on three areas which represent the applications of the four basic freedoms: consumer rights, the rights of professionals in gaining access to the market, and intellectual property rights in the Digital Single Market. With chapters from leading researchers, the main pathways towards the reduction and removal of these barriers are considered. Taking into account important factors including the global financial crisis, as well as practical barriers, such as multilingualism, the solutions provided in this book present a pathway to enhance cross-border realization of European citizens? access to their economic rights, as well as increasing in the cultural richness of the EU. EU Citizens? Economic Rights in Actionis an important book, which will be an essential resource for students of EU citizenship and economics, as well as for EU policymakers and practitioners interested in the field.

Moving Beyond Barriers
Moving Beyond Barriers

Author: Sandra Seubert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1788113640

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This book identifies, analyses and compares a variety of possible ‘barriers’ to the exercise of European citizenship and discusses ways to move beyond these barriers. It contributes in a multi-disciplinary way to a highly topical issue and offers new perspectives on EU citizenship in the sense that it critically analyses concepts of citizenship, the way EU citizenship is politically, legally and socially institutionalized, and elaborates alternatives to the current paths of realizing EU citizenship.

Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law
Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law

Author: Vanessa Mak

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 019885448X

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This book deals with lawmaking in consumer markets, focusing on the increased importance of contracts and self-regulation which have become primary instruments for designing and monitoring legal relationships between businesses and consumers. It asks how common values and objectives of EU law can be protected when lawmaking shifts beyond state law.

Social Rights and the European Monetary Union
Social Rights and the European Monetary Union

Author: González Pascual, Maribel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-10-20

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1839105259

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This thought-provoking book examines the state of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and its shortcomings in terms of social rights protection in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the Euro crisis. Providing a critical analysis of the basic tenets of European economic governance, it highlights current challenges for a Social Europe and proposes new avenues for tackling these issues.

Democratic Empowerment in the European Union
Democratic Empowerment in the European Union

Author: David Levi-Faur

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 178811356X

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This book looks at democratic empowerment via institutional designs that extend the political rights of European citizens. It focuses on three themes: first, the positive and negative effects of the European Union institutional design on the political rights of its citizens; second, challenges for democratic regimes across the world in the 21st century in the context of regionalism and globalization; third, the constraints of neoliberalism and capitalist markets on the ability of citizens to effectively achieve their political rights within the Union.

Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History

Author: Steven L. B. Jensen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1009020668

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This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social rights stretch back that far; they arguably pre-date the Enlightenment. In tracing their long history across various global contexts, this volume reveals how debates over social rights have often turned on deeper struggles over social obligation – over determining who owes what to whom, morally and legally. In the modern period, these struggles have been intertwined with questions of freedom, democracy, equality and dignity. Many factors have shaped the history of social rights, from class, gender and race to religion, empire and capitalism. With incomparable chronological depth, geographical breadth and conceptual nuance, Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History sets an agenda for future histories of human rights.

The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe
The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe

Author: Hans-W Micklitz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1509963049

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This book analyses the transformation of consumer law and policy in Europe from 4 perspectives: first, the temporal transformation, i.e., changes that can be tracked from the turn of the millennium; secondly, the substantive dimension, i.e., changes in the scope of the rights and remedies provided by consumer law, as well as the underpinning values; thirdly, the institutional dimension, i.e., changes in the role of national courts, national Parliaments, consumer agencies, and consumer organisations; and fourth, the procedural element, i.e., the shift from individual enforcement via courts to enforcement by public regulators, consumer associations, alternative dispute resolution, and the development of collective enforcement exercised by consumer agencies and/or consumer organisations. With contributions by leading consumer law scholars from across Europe, this book is a fascinating account of how consumer law has often been shaped by national as much as European interests.

Reconsidering EU Citizenship
Reconsidering EU Citizenship

Author: Sandra Seubert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1788113543

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25 years after the introduction of EU citizenship this book reconsiders its contradictions and constraints as well as promises and prospects. Analyzing a disputed concept and evaluating its implementation and social effects Reconsidering EU Citizenship contributes to the lively debate on European and transnational citizenship. It offers new insights for the ongoing theoretical debates on the future of EU citizenship – a future that will be determined by the transformative path the EU is going to take vis à vis the centrifugal forces of the current economic and political crisis.