TY - BOOK AU - Claes,Monica TI - The National Courts' Mandate in the European Constitution T2 - Modern Studies in European Law Series SN - 9781847312181 AV - KJE3666.C55 2006 U1 - 342.24 PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc KW - Courts -- European Union countries KW - Electronic books N1 - Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Introduction: The Judge, his Mandate, the National Constitution and European Union Law -- I. Setting the Stage -- II. The Theoretical Framework -- Part 1: The National Courts as Common Courts of European Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Before the West was Won: A Touch of Legal Archaeology -- 2.1. THE GENERAL PICTURE -- 2.2. THE NETHERLANDS -- 2.3. FRANCE -- 2.4. BELGIUM -- 2.5. LUXEMBOURG -- 2.6. GERMANY -- 2.7. ITALY -- 2.8. CONCLUSION -- 3. The Creation of a Community Mandate for National Courts -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION: NATIONAL COURTS AS COMMUNITY COURTS -- 3.2. HINTS OF A ROLE FOR NATIONAL COURTS IN THE TREATIES -- 3.3. THE COMMUNITY MANDATE OF THE NATIONAL COURTS -- 4. The Duty to Review National Law: the 'Simmenthal Mandate' -- 4.1. THE DOCTRINE OF DIRECT EFFECT -- 4.2. THE DOCTRINE OF SUPREMACY -- 4.3. DIRECT EFFECT AND SUPREMACY: THE 'SIMMENTHAL MANDATE' -- 4.4. SUPREMACY BEYOND DIRECT EFFECT? -- 4.5. CONCLUSION -- 5. Refining the Mandate: Second Generation Issues -- 5.1. THE PRINCIPLE OF PROCEDURAL AUTONOMY -- 5.2. FROM A 'PRINCIPLE' OF STRUCTURAL SUPREMACY TO THE PRINCIPLE OF FULL EFFECTIVENESS -- 5.3. THE PRINCIPLE OF EFFECTIVE JUDICIAL PROTECTION -- 5.4. THE REQUIREMENT OF UNIFORM APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY LAW -- 5.5. INTERMEDIATE CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 5.6. CHANGING THE PERSPECTIVE: THE CREATION OF NEW REMEDIES -- 6. The 'Simmenthal Mandate' Embraced -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. GRADUAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE DUTY OF JUDICIAL REVIEW BY THE DOMESTIC COURTS: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW -- 6.3 FINAL REMARKS -- 7. About Legal Orders -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. THE CLASSIC DICHOTOMY: MONISM AND DUALISM -- 7.3. WHAT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY LAW: IN SEARCH OF A DOCTRINAL BASIS; 7.4. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL LEGAL ORDER IN THE CASE LAW OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE -- 7.6. DEFINING THE COMMUNITY LEGAL ORDER FROM THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- 7.7. CLOSING REMARKS -- 8. The Constitutional Limits of the Judicial Function -- 8.1. THE PLACE OF THE COURTS IN THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM -- 8.2. THE COURT OF JUSTICE AND THE JURISDICTIONAL ISSUE -- 8.3. THE NATIONAL ANSWER -- 9. Explaining Acceptance -- 9.1. 'LEGALIST' EXPLANATIONS -- 9.2. JUDICIAL DIALOGUE -- 9.3. THE WIDER CONTEXT: NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ON TREATIES -- 9.4. THE WIDER CONTEXT: THE GENERAL INCREASEOF CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW -- 9.5. THE EMPOWERMENT THESIS -- 9.6. THE INTER-COURT COMPETITION ARGUMENT -- 9.7. CROSS-FERTILISATION -- 9.8. NATIONAL LEGAL CULTURES -- 9.9. LA DOCTRINE AND PERSONALITIES ON THE BENCH… -- 9.10. …AND BEYOND -- 9.11. THE CASES AT HAND -- 9.12. THE PROPORTION OF COMMUNITY LAW CASES IN DOMESTIC PROCEEDINGS -- 9.13. FINAL REMARKS -- 10. Excursion: The 'Costanzo Mandate' of Administrative Authorities -- 11. The 'Francovish Mandate': Jurisdiction to Hold the State Liable for Breach of Community Law -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. STATE LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF COMMUNITY LAW BEFORE FRANCOVICH -- 11.3. LIABILITY OF THE LEGISLATING STATE IN NATIONAL LAW -- 11.4. THE CASE OF INFRINGEMENTS OF COMMUNITY LAW: PRE-FRANCOVICH DECISIONS OF NATIONAL COURTS -- 11.5. NON-CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY OF THE COMMUNITY -- 11.6. THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE: THE COURT'S CASE LAW ON GOVERNMENTAL LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF COMMUNITY LAW -- 11.7. LIABILITY OF THE STATE: THE NATIONAL ANSWER -- 11.8. CONCLUSION -- Part 2: The Court of Justice and National Constitutional Jurisdiction: La Guerre des Juges? -- 12. Introduction -- 13. Introducing the Actors: 'Courts Having Constitutional Jurisdiction'; 13.1. DEFINING THE ACTORS: NATIONAL COURTS HAVING CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION -- 13.2. THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE AS A RIVAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT -- 13.3. A STRENUOUS CONSTITUTIONAL DIALOGUE -- 14. La Guerre des Juges? -- 14.1. CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS AND THE 'SIMMENTHAL MANDATE': ARE THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS UNDER THE SAME MANDATE AS ORDINARY COURTS? -- 15. Prior Review of the Constitutionality of Treaties -- 15.1. THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE -- 15.2. THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- 15.3. PREVENTIVE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW OF THE TREATIES: A FEW OBSERVATIONS -- 16. A Posteriori Constitutional Review of the Treaties -- 16.1. THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE -- 16.2. THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- 16.3. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 17. Preventive Constitutional Review of the Constitutionality of Secondary Law -- 17.1. THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE -- 17.2. THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- 17.3. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 18. Judicial Review of Secondary European Union Law by National Courts? -- 18.1. THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE -- 18.2. THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- 18.3. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Part 3: The National Courts' Mandate and the Future of the European Union -- 19. Introduction -- 20. Towards a European Constitution -- 20.1. PAST CONSTITUTION BUILDING: THE IGC MODEL -- 20.2. THE CONVENTION MODEL: THE CONVENTION PREPARING THE EU CHARTER ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- 20.3. THE CONVENTION ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE -- 20.4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 21. The Principle of Primacy -- 21.1. THE CURRENT SITUATION: REVOLT OR REVOLUTION, OR COEXISTENCE? -- 21.2. PRIMACY IN THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION? -- 21.3. THE TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE -- 21.4. NATIONAL PRIMACY PROVISIONS -- 21.5. THE CONCEPT OF DIRECT EFFECT -- 22. Incorporation of the National Courts' Mandate? -- 22.1. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS -- 22.2. THE TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE -- 23. Fundamental Rights; 23.1. REMINDER: THE CURRENT SITUATION -- 23.2. THE EU CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- 23.3. ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS -- 23.4. ACCESSION AND/OR CHARTER? -- 23.5. THE TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE -- 24. Kompetenz Kompetenz -- 24.1. THE CURRENT SITUATION -- 24.2. SOLVING THE COMPETENCE ISSUE -- 24.3. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 25. Conclusion -- Bibliography N2 - This book offers a 'bottom up' view of how the reform of the European Constitution might work UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1772718 ER -