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In the post-World War II international economy, with its enormous growth in transnational trade and investment, multinational legal practice has become a functional reality.1 Within the last two decades, the volume of trans-border legal practice has grown enormously in fields such as trade law, international banking and finance, international arbitration and litigation, international contractual and joint venture arrangements, transborder acquisitions and mergers, international antitrust, international tax planning, and foreign investment counselling. Domestic law firms within the leading commercial nations have not only grown substantially in size, often by merger, they have also increasingly created networks of foreign branch offices, or entered into international association or joint venture relationships with firms in other countries.2

The history of the European Commuity and the European Union -- The treaties and the Union's institutions -- Preliminary references and preliminary rulings -- Enforcement proceedings against member states -- Constitutional doctrines : direct effect and primacy -- The sphere of EU law, legislation, the legislative process, and the budget -- Judicial review of European Union Acts -- Fundamental rights, the charter of rights, democratic values and transparency -- National remedies for the enforcement of EU law claims -- The reception of European Union Law in the member states -- Free movement of goods : duties, charges, internal taxes -- Free movement of goods : quantitative restrictions -- Free movement of workers -- The common market, the internal market and harmonization of laws through directives -- Citizenship of the Union, free movement and residence rights, and the area of freedom, security and justice -- Right of establishment and right to provide services -- Rights of practice for lawyers and other professionals -- Industrial and commercial property rights -- The treaty, objectives and the single market -- Cartels -- Abuse of a dominant position -- Horizontal restraints under article 101 -- Vertical restraints under article 101 -- Mergers -- The state and competition -- The external relations powers of the European Union -- Preferential arrangements, association, and accession negotiations -- The common commercial policy : the EU in the WTO -- Free movement of capital and the integrated financial market -- Economic and monetary union -- Social policy -- Equal employment rights and anti-discrimination -- Environmental protection -- Litigation in civil and commericial matters

This classic casebook presents the governance and judicial structure of the European Union, together with its major substantive law fields of concern to students and practitioners, all as updated by the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon. Part I presents the history, institutional structure, principal Court constitutional doctrines, and its basic legal system. Teachers may choose among the other five parts to tailor their courses to their interests. Part II presents leading Court precedents and legislation intended to achieve the common market, later renamed the internal market. Part III comprehensively covers EU competition law and policy, of great concern to practitioners. The European Union's external relations and trade policy is the subject of Part IV, while Part V presents the impact of free movement of capital and EU banking regulation, and the Monetary Union. Finally, Part VI presents several key policy areas—the harmonization of employment law, anti-discrimination rules, environmental protection, and civil and commercial litigation rules. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1182/thumbnail.jpg