General Principles of EC Law
1st Edition
This book provides an
authoritative account and analysis of the general principles of EC law - essential to an
understanding not only of the rapidly growing and increasingly specialized areas of
substantive EC law, and the process of judicial review, but also to the evolution of the
EU more generally.
A central concern of the book is to explain how the European Court has developed general
principles of law derived from the national legal systems of the Member States, from the
EC Treaty itself, and from the international agreements to which Member States are parties
and then to show how these general principles have been applied and interpreted in
practice.
Written by one of the
countries leading authorities on EC law
Chapters cover how and why
general principles have developed, the course of the law and major examples in practice
Foreword. General Editor's
Preface. Table of Cases. Table of Treaty Provisions. 1. The development of general
principles. 2. Principles derived from the Community Treaties. 3. Proportionality. 4.
Legitimate expectations and legal certainty. 5. Procedural rights and privacy. 6. Property
rights. 7. Principles of good administration. 8. Status and use of general principles of
Community law. 9. Influence of principles of Community law within the legal systems of the
UK. Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.
198 pages