Books in the Oxford Studies in European Law series

This book explores the relationship between European Union law, culture, and identity. It illustrates how cultual issues permeate all aspects of Community law; shaping the development of policies in areas as diverse as internal and external trade, education, sport, language use, and the mass media.

The regulation of cartels has become a central priority of the European Commission, and a cornerstone of EU competition law. Addressing important developments in law and policy since the first edition, Harding and Joshua provide a systematic, critical, and scholarly analysis of cartel regulation in the EU.

This book outlines how the expansion of EU power is taking place through law and policy, in public health and health care. How is EU law and policy in the field of human health adopted, who are the institutional actors involved, and what is the impact of these developments for fundamental rights?

A timely and innovative examination of the EU data protection regime, this book challenges existing assumptions about data protection and expounds a clear vision for the future of this crucial and contentious area of law.

Analysing the evolution of the legal concept of State aid in the EU, this book examines the main formulas established by the Court of Justice of the EU since the early 1950s, underpinning the legal boundaries of State aid in relation to the historical, political, economic, and legal evolution of its field of application: the internal market.

The claims of justice are universal, yet we need the structures of the nation state to implement its policies. This book argues that the EU is able to overcome this paradox. It suggests that EU law, and in particular the right to free movement, creates connections and solidarity between citizens to broaden our understanding of justice.

The challenges facing the criminalization of cartel activity in the EU are threefold: theoretical, legal, and practical. This book analyses these crucial challenges so that the complexity of the process of European antitrust criminalization can be accurately understood.

The principle of loyalty requires the EU and its Member States to co-operate sincerely towards the implementation of EU law. Under the principle, the European courts have developed significant public law duties on States to deepen the reach of EU law. This is the first full-length analysis of the loyalty principle and its legal implications.

This book offers the first overarching examination of constitutional pluralism in the European context. Mapping the leading work to date, it offers a critical assessment of the problems and potential of pluralist theory, arguing that a refined version of constitutional pluralism should be considered the best account of European constitutionalism.