European Union Law

Archive of European Integration

The Archive of European Integration (AEI), maintained by the University of Pittsburgh, is an online repository of documents relating to the development of the European Union. It consists of EU official documents - such as green and white papers, treaties and reports - and independently-published materials such as conference papers, working papers and journal articles. The Archive can be searched by keyword, or browsed by topic, year, or document number.

Draft EU Convention: Full documentation Vols I & II and explanatory reports on amendments

Text of the Convention on the Future of Europe's ultimately unsuccessful European Union constitutional treaty, with related documents, on the website of Statewatch, an organisation devoted to investigative journalism and critical research in Europe in the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness. The site provides the text of the draft treaty, explanatory notes and details of amendments. In addition there are critiques and commentary from Statewatch. The site is in English.

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

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.

Does the European Union Have a Constitution? Does It Need One?

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.

European Constitutional Law Network

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.

German Law Journal

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.

European Council Summits since 1985

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.

European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research

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.

Collegium

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.

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