Monitoring Fundamental Rights In The EU
Subtitle: The Contribution Of The Fundamental Rights Agency (Essays in European Law)
Contributors: Philip Alston (Editor); Olivier De Schutter (Editor)
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: February 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781841135342
Subjects: EU citizenship & nationality law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Human rights; Political Science; Law; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Constitutional; European Union countries; International; Fundamental Rights Agency (European Union); Human rights monitoring
Description: "This volume is the first to critically examine the proposals put forward by the European Commission in October 2004 on the creation of the EU Fundamenal Rights Agency. Leading scholars in the field of European and international human rights law analyse the potential significance of this innovative Agency, and seek to locate it in relation to various other human rights mechanisms, both in the EU's constitutional structure and within Member States. They review the tasks which the Agency might be called upon to perform, and make proposals as to how it can function most effectively. The relationship of EU law to the international law of human rights emerging from both the United Nations and the Council of Europe is examined. The authors also address the challenge of ensuring improved coherence between EU law and the other human rights obligations undertaken by the Member States. Taken together, these contributions address urgent questions facing the EU at a time when the central unifying function of fundamental rights has been recognised but the way forward remains largely uncharted."--BOOK JACKET.