Academic

Dickson on Legal Systems in the EU

By Lawrence Solum

Julie Dickson (University of Oxford - Faculty of Law) has posted How Many Legal Systems? Some Puzzles Regarding the Identity Conditions of, and Relations between, Legal Systems in the European Union on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In this article I discuss various possible ways of understanding the character of and relations between legal systems in the European Union. In particular, I consider whether there is an EU legal system distinct from and in addition to the national legal systems of EU Member States, or whether it is better to conceive of EU law merely as an aspect of Member States' legal systems, or indeed whether we should think of there being but a single EU legal system of which Member States' 'national legal systems' are in some sense sub-systems.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).