| Description |
1 online resource (768 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- The European Union and Human Rights -- Copyright -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Emergence of the EU's Commitment to Human Rights -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Early Fundamental Rights Case Law in the European Communities -- 1.3 Development of Social Rights in the Internal Market -- 1.4 Human Rights in Political Cooperation -- 1.5 Fundamental Rights in the European Union Era -- 2 Fundamental Rights in the EU Institutional Landscape -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The European Commission -- 2.3 The European Parliament |
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2.4 The Council of the European Union -- A. Working Party on Fundamental Rights, Citizens' Rights, and Free Movement of Persons (FREMP) -- B. Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) -- 2.5 The Court of Justice -- 2.6 The European External Action Service (EEAS) and EU Special Representative (EUSR) for Human Rights -- 2.7 The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) -- 2.8 National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) -- 2.9 Equality Bodies and Data Protection Authorities -- A. National Equality Bodies -- B. Data Protection Authorities -- 2.10 European Ombudsman -- 2.11 EU Member States |
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3 Concepts and Language of Human Rights in the EU -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Human or Fundamental? On the Language and Concept of Rights -- A. The EU's dichotomous language of rights -- B. A more fundamental distinction? -- 3.3 Human Rights Narratives as EU Myths -- 3.4 The Rule of Law, Democracy, and Their Relation to Fundamental Rights -- A. The democracy, rule of law, and human rights triumvirate in general -- B. Democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights in the EU -- 4 The EU Legal Framework for the Protection of Fundamental Rights -- 4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 Fundamental Rights as General Principles of Law -- 4.3 EU Charter of Fundamental Rights -- A. The scope of application of the Charter -- B. Limitations on the rights in the Charter -- C. Relation of the Charter to the ECHR and national constitutions -- D. Difference between rights and principles in Article 52(5) of the Charter -- E. Horizontal effect of the Charter -- F. Use of the Charter at national level -- G. Explanations relating to the Charter -- 4.4 EU Secondary Law -- A. General Data Protection Regulation -- B. Directives on equality and anti-discrimination |
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C. Directives on rights of victims and rights of suspects and accused persons -- D. Free movement, immigration, and asylum -- 4.5 The Principle of Mutual Trust -- 4.6 Protection of EU Values through Articles 2 and 7 TEU -- 5 International Law, the ECHR, and the EU -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Application of EU Fundamental Rights to International Law -- 5.3 International Human Rights Law and the EU -- 5.4 The EU and the ECHR -- A. The view from Strasbourg -- B. EU accession to the ECHR -- 5.5 Other Council of Europe Instruments -- 5.6 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) |
| Summary |
'The European Union and Human Rights' maps and critiques the EU's commitment to human rights in both internal and external affairs. The book covers the evolution as well as the current state of the EU's engagement with human rights, focusing, on the internal side, on the role of the EU law in the multi-faceted system of human rights protection and, on the external side, on the EU's efforts to bind its foreign policy to promoting himan rights |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 15, 2021) |
| Subject |
European Union.
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| SUBJECT |
European Union fast |
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Human rights -- European Union countries
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Human rights -- European Union countries -- Cases
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Human rights
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European Union countries
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ovádek, Michal, author.
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Martens, Katrien, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191923838 |
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0191923834 |
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9780192543912 |
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0192543911 |
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