Protecting Human Rights in the EU Controversies and Challenges of the Charter of Fundamental Rights

Human rights are much talked about and much written about, in academic legal literature as well as in political and other social sciences and the general political debate. This book argues that the universality of basic human rights is one of the values of the concept of rights. It points out the ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kerikmäe, Tanel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: EU Charter as a dynamic instrument
  • EU Charter: Its nature, innovative character and horizontal effect
  • The Future of Universality of Rights
  • The Freedom to Conduct Business and the Right to Property: The EU Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and the relationship between Intellectual Property and Competition Law
  • The Contribution of the European Charter of Human Rights to the Right to Legal Aid
  • Gender as an Impediment of Marriage. Free Movement of Citizens and EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
  • The standard of judicial review in EU competition law enforcement and its compatibility with the right to a fair trial under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
  • European court of asylum – does it exist?
  • Free movement of students in the EU
  • Fundamental rights of athletes in the EU POST-LISBON
  • Idolatry of Rights and Freedoms Reflections on the Autopoietic Role of Fundamental Rights within Constitutionalization of the European Union