Europeanisation of law
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In the context of European integration
, Europeanisation of law may be interpreted as
According to Professor Jacques Ziller the Europeanisation of law has three main consequences:
European integration
European integration is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe...
, Europeanisation of law may be interpreted as
- broadening of the scope of European law,
- emergence of new legal disciplines in Europe.
According to Professor Jacques Ziller the Europeanisation of law has three main consequences:
- leads to change in the systems of sources of lawSources of lawSources of law means the origin from which rules of human conduct come into existence and derive legal force or binding characters.It also refers to the sovereign or the state from which the law derives its force or validity....
in the national legal systems, - legal systems converge,
- changes legal scienceLegal scienceLegal Science is one of the social sciences which deals with the institutions and principles that particular societies have developed:Legal science is one of the main components in the civil law tradition .Legal science is primarily the creation of German legal scholars of the middle and late...
s' methodology.
External links
- Integration and the Europeanisation of the Law
- The Europeanisation of national legal systems: some consequences for legal thinking in civil law countries
Sources
- Ziller, Jacques: Europeanisation of Law: From the Enlargement of the Areas of European Law to a Transformation of the Law of the Member States (L'Européisation Du Droit: De L'Élargissement Des Champs Du Droit De L'Union Européenne À Une Transformation Des Droits Des États Membres), EUI Working Paper LAW No. 2006/19, July 2006