This section of the European Parliament's website contains the full text of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union with detailed commentary on each chapter. Links are provided to relevant national, international and EU laws. Annexes contain reports by independent experts on the safeguarding of fundamental rights in Europe; UN and Council of Europe conventions; and a list of NGOs involved in the field of fundamental rights.
Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper 5/2000 by Jean-Claude Piris, published on the website of New York University Law School's Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. The paper discusses constitutional issues relating to the European Union. This includes an examination of whether the founding treaties of the EU constitute a 'constitution' and how they could be strengthened.
The European Constitutional Law Network (ECLN) was set up by Professor Ingolf Pernice of the Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law, Berlin. It is an academic forum on European constitutional law. The website has links to constitutions of EU member states and future member states. Countries are listed alphabetically, with each constitution presented in English and in the original language; some texts are also in French, German, Spanish and/or Italian.
This online journal contains full-text articles in English covering legal developments in German and European jurisprudence. It is edited by Dr. Russell A. Miller, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law, and Peer Zumbansen, who holds the Canada Research Chair of Transnational and Comparative Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada. Issues of the journal are available back to October 2000 and are searchable as well as browseable.
Online collection of Presidency Conclusions issued after meetings of the European Council, made available on the European Parliament's website. The Conclusions are provided here from 1985 to 2006 only on this page (see Council of the European Union website for more recent ones), taken from the Bulletin of the European Parliament. Where available, annexes and speeches of the President of the European Parliament are also included.
Online guide to researching European Union (EU) law, written by Marylin J. Raisch, Librarian for International and Foreign Law at the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library of the Georgetown Law Center. This updated version of the article was published in the features section of LLRX.com in May 2007. The introduction gives an overview of the structure of the EU and the author goes on to cover the treaties of Rome, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice and the constitutional treaty.
Full-text journal of the College of the Europe, featuring articles (Some English, some French) based on proceedings of the annual Colloquium in co-operation with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Brussels. No journal contents prior to 2000. Mainly concerns humanitarian issues such as the Law of War or International Human Rights Law.
Published by Berkeley Electronic Press, these papers concern the economic analysis of law, particularly European and German law. The papers are available on the website from 2000 to the present; abstracts are also provided. They are in either German or English.
Web pages of the Durham European Law Institute (DELI), which is based at the University of Durham's Department of Law. The Institute was founded in 1991 with the aim of disseminating knowledge of European law and its work is focused particularly on European Constitutional Law, European Free Movement Law, EU External Relations Law, European Competition Law, Fundamental Rights, European co-operation in the criminal sphere and European responses to terrorism.
Website of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at the University of Cambridge. Gives information about the work of CELS and the projects it is concerned with. These cover European Union law and the individual legal systems of European countries. A brief description is given of their involvement with the British Centre for English Legal Studies at Warsaw University in Poland. The site includes details of the staff, management committee, advisory board and fellows of CELS and there is information relating to the centre's past and forthcoming conferences, seminars and lectures.
