Chalmers, Damian and Barroso, Luis (2014) What Van Gend en Loos stands for. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 12 (1). pp. 105-134. ISSN 1474-2640
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Abstract
Three transformational developments flowed from Van Gend en Loos: the central symbols and ideals of EU law; an autonomous legal order with more power than traditional treaties; and a system of individual rights and duties. The judgment also set out how each of these developments was to be deployed. The symbols and ideals were set out to proclaim EU authority rather than to go to what the EU did. What the EU did was, above all, government through law. The EU legal order was conceived, above all, therefore, as a vehicle for the expression of EU government. This, in turn, shaped the allocation of individual rights which were predominantly granted only where they furthered the realization of the collective objectives of EU government. Conceiving EU law as governmental law also left a profound and negative effect on EU legal meaning. This became shaped by EU law being reduced to something to sustain activities valued by EU government rather than to provide a wider, more emancipatory imaginary.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://icon.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author. Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law. |
| Divisions: | European Institute Law |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) K Law > K Law (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2014 13:28 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56602 |
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