EU Law after Lisbon

Many of the most controversial areas of reform initiated by the Lisbon Treaty were not negotiated in the Treaty itself, but left to be resolved during its implementation. Since the Treaty's entry into force, the implementation process has already had a profound impact on many areas of EU law and policy, and consolidated new areas of power, such as over foreign investment. This collection gathers leading specialists in the field to analyse the Treaty's implementation and the directions of legal reform post-Lisbon. Drawing on a range of expertise to assess and comment on the Treaty, the contributors include both academics and practitioners involved in negotiating and implementing the Treaty. Focusing on the central issues and changes resulting from the Lisbon Treaty, the contributors examine the Treaty in the broader background of how the EU, and EU law in particular, has been developing in recent years and provide a contextual understanding of the future direction of EU law in the post-Lisbon era.

Preface. I: CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK. 1. From Laeken to Lisbon: The Origins and Negotiation of the Lisbon Treaty. 2. The Two (or Three) Treaty Solution: The New Treaty Structure of the EU. 3. Lawmaking after Lisbon. 4. Does the Lisbon Treaty Provide a Clearer Separation of Competences between EU and Member States?. 5. Treaty Revision Procedures after Lisbon. 6. 'Don't mention divorce at the wedding, darling!': EU Accession and Withdrawal after Lisbon. 7. The Charter of Fundamental Rights. 8. Accession to the ECHR. II: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK. 9. The Lisbon Treaty and the Court of Justice. 10. Subsidiarity in the Courtroom. 11. The European Union after the Lisbon Treaty: An Elusive 'Institutional Balance'?. 12. The Evolving Roles of the European Parliament and of National Parliaments. III: EXTERNAL RELATIONS. 13. The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: From Pillar Talk to Constitutionalism. 14. The Reform of the Common Commercial Policy: coherent and democratic?. 15. owards an EU Policy on Foreign Direct Investment. IV: EU POLICIES. 16. EU Competence in Criminal Law after Lisbon. 17. Writing straight with crooked lines: Competition Policy and Services of General Economic Interest in the Treaty of Lisbon. 18. Energy Policy after Lisbon. 19. EU Sports Law: The Effect of the Lisbon Treaty.

Andrea Biondi is Professor of European Union Law and the Co-Director of the Centre of European Law at King's College London. Prof. Biondi is also visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw, Universidade Catolica of Lisbon and at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Bar of Florence as well as being an Academic Member of Francis Taylor Building Chambers in London. Piet Eeckhout is Professor of European Law and Director of the Centre of European Law at King's College London. He is editor, with Prof T Tridimas, of the Yearbook of European Law; and, with David Anderson QC, of the Oxford EU Law Library (both Oxford University Press). He is an associate academic member of Matrix Chambers.