The Legal Effects of EU Agreements
In: Oxford Studies in European Law
Comprehensively examining the legal effects of EU concluded treaties, this book provides a thorough analysis of this increasingly important and rapidly growing area of EU law. The EU has concluded more than 1000 treaties including recently its first human rights treaty (the UN Rights of Persons with Disability Convention). These agreements are regularly invoked in litigation in the Courts of the member states and before the EU courts in Luxembourg but their ramifications for the EUlegal order and that of the member states remains underexplored. Through analysis of over 300 cases, the author fi