The Constitutional Foundations of EU Foreign Relations Law

This research is part of Prof. Marise Cremona 's research project 
The Foreign Relations Law of the European Union: A Constitutional Perspective 

 

This stage of the project involves a reappraisal of the constitutional foundations of EU external relations law: a reassessment of the basic principles of EU foreign relations law that have emerged over 50 years of incremental Treaty-based and judicial development and an exploration of the particular character of the EU’s “external constitution”, placing it in the context of both the EU’s own “internal” constitutional development and the constitutional traditions of its Member States. A second dimension is an assessment of the codification of and changes to that constitution by way of the Constitutional Treaty, and then the Treaty of Lisbon.

• M Cremona, “External Relations and External Competence of the European Union: The Emergence of an Integrated Policy” in G. de Búrca and P. Craig (eds.) The Evolution of EU Law , 2nd edition, OUP, 2011 
• M. Cremona, ‘EC Competence, ‘Smart Sanctions’ and the Kadi Case’ (2009) 28 Yearbook of European Law 559-592

• Workshop 11 December 2009
  Current Issues in EU External Relations Law 

• Seminar Autumn 2009
  Advanced Course on EU External Relations Law 

• M. Cremona and B. de Witte (eds.) EU Foreign Relations Law – Constitutional Fundamentals , Hart Publishing, 2008 

• M. Cremona, “Defining Competence In EU External Relations: Lessons from the Treaty Reform Process” in A. Dashwood and M. Maresceau (eds.) Law and Practice of EU External Relations – Salient Features of a Changing Landscape , Cambridge University Press, 2008

• Workshop 10-11 November 2006 
  EU Foreign Relations Law: Constitutional Fundamentals 

• Seminar Autumn 2006 
  EU External Relations  Law: Constitutional Fundamentals  

• M Cremona, “The Union’s  External Action : Constitutional Perspectives” in G. Amato, H. Bribosia and B. de Witte (eds.), Genèse et Destinée de la Constitution Européenne: Commentaire du traité établissant une Constitution pour l’Europe à la lumière des travaux préparatoires et perspectives d’ avenir, Editions Bruylant, 2007. Available as EUI Law Working Paper 2006/30