EU Law

The definitive EU law textbook: the most authoritative coverage, including extracts from all key cases and materials, from a world-renowned author team.
Respected as the definitive textbook on the subject, this is the stand-alone guide to EU law. The world-renowned authors offer the ideal balance of commentary, key cases, and materials to provide the most authoritative coverage and analysis.
Key Features
- If you are studying EU law in the UK, please see EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials UK Version, ISBN 9780198915485.
- Written by leading scholars on European Union law and provides an insightful analysis of the subject.
- Succinct and clear commentary sets out the law, illuminates the accompanying materials, and delivers critical and contextual analysis of all the legal and political aspects of EU law and policy.
New to this edition
- The eighth edition has been updated to include expanded discussions of key topics, including:
- A revised chapter on membership, now including issues relating to entry, as well as Member State obligations and exit
- Adjusted chapters on legisation, decision-making, and democracy, allowing fuller treatment of the complex issues concerning governance and democracy within the EU
- Separate and expanded discussions of free movement of capital and economic monetary union
- Inclusion of important new case law on areas such as: competence, preliminary rulings, State aids, human rights, citizenship, competition, direct effect, freedom of establishment, and international relations law
Digital formats and resources
The 8th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit http://www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

Paul Craig, QC, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of English Law at St John's College, Oxford. Paul is one of the foremost scholars on European law and administrative law and has published extensively in these areas.
Gráinne de Búrca is the Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law and Director of both the Hauser Global Law School and Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University. Gráinne is a leading expert on European Union law, European human rights law, and European and transnational governance and has written widely in these areas.

1: The development of European integration
2: Membership: Entry, Obligations and Exit
3: The Tnstitutions
4: Competence
5: Instruments and the Hierarchy of Norms
6: Legislation and Decision-making
7: Legislation, Decision-making and Democracy
8: The Nature and Effect of EU law: Direct Effect and Beyond
9: The Application of EU law: Remedies in National Courts
10: The Relationship between EU law and National Law: Primacy
11: EU International Relations Law
12: Human Rights in the EU
13: Enforcement Action against Member States
14: Preliminary Rulings
15: Review of Legality: Access
16: Review of Legality: Grounds of Review
17: Damages Actions and Money Claims
18: The Single Market
19: Free Movement of Goods: Duties, Charges, and Taxes
20: Free Movement of Goods: Quantitative Restrictions
21: Free movement of Capital
22: Free movement of Workers
23: Freedom of Establishment and to Provide Services
24: Citizenship of the European Union
25: Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination: On the Grounds of Sex, Race, Disability, Religion or Belief and Age
26: Economic and Monetary Union
27: AFSJ: EU Criminal Law
28: Competition law: Article 101
29: Competition law: Article 102
30: Competition law: Mergers
31: The State and the Common Market