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EU Equality Law Elise Muir (Professor of EU Law, Professor of EU Law, KU Leuven)

EU Equality Law By Elise Muir (Professor of EU Law, Professor of EU Law, KU Leuven)

Summary

The focus of this monograph is on the evolution of EU policies designed to realize specific fundamental rights, and how this is delivered in EU equality law.

EU Equality Law Summary

EU Equality Law: The First Fundamental Rights Policy of the EU by Elise Muir (Professor of EU Law, Professor of EU Law, KU Leuven)

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers. Although these powers do not include an all-encompassing fundamental rights' mandate, today's existential challenges - from economic to refugee crisis, via concerns for compliance with the rule of law in some of its Member States - increase the pressure on the EU to develop tools for protection and promotion of such rights. One way of addressing the tension between the lack of a general mandate and vivid calls for protection is for the EU to focus on selected fundamental rights which it has competence to regulate. One such example is EU law on the fundamental right to equal treatment that has blossomed since the late 1990s. In developing selected fundamental right policies that can be imposed on domestic actors, as EU law does, supranational intervention needs to be carefully tailored to the plural landscape where they are intended to flourish. This monograph calls for a nuanced use of the infrastructure of EU law to convey shared values at domestic level across Europe.

EU Equality Law Reviews

Muir's exploration of equality makes for a thoughtful, rich, and original contribution to bibliography providing a critique not only on equality but also, more broadly, on rights discourse and the separation of powers in the EU. * Takis Tridimas, Professor of European Law, King's College London, Nancy A. Patterson Distinguished Scholar, Penn State Law *
Muir puts forward two main arguments in this book which can be summarised as follows: first, creating a fundamental rights policy...Second, Muir deals with what she calls the 'governance' of EU equality law in domestic spheres...This book does well to revive the theme of EU fundamental rights policy-making and to investigate fundamental rights in legislation. It provides and invites needed contemplation on the interplay between the legislature and the judiciary in the protection of equality law, and fundamental rights more generally, and the identified problem of 'over-constitutionalisation', especially as the case law is developing in this field. * Vasiliki Kosta, Associate Professor, Europa Institute, EuConst *

About Elise Muir (Professor of EU Law, Professor of EU Law, KU Leuven)

Elise Muir is Professor of EU Law, and head of the Institute for European Law at KU Leuven.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Checks and Balances in the Process of Fundamental Rights' Law-Making in the EU 3: EU Equality Law at a Constitutional Crossroads 4: Distinguishing Legislation giving Expression to Fundamental Rights: Lessons from EU Equality Law 5: The Legislative Embedding of the Governance of EU Equality Law 6: Conclusion

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NPB9780198814665
9780198814665
0198814666
EU Equality Law: The First Fundamental Rights Policy of the EU by Elise Muir (Professor of EU Law, Professor of EU Law, KU Leuven)
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Oxford University Press
2018-11-07
248
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