Exceptions from EU Free Movement Law
The City Law School’s Professor Panos Koutrakos, Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, has co-edited a new book of essays about EU Free Movement Law with the University of Edinburgh’s Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne and the University of Bristol’s Professor Phil Syrpis.
Exceptions from EU Free Movement Law – Derogation, Justification and Proportionality, published by Hart Publishing (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing), sets out to: Conceptualise how justification arguments regarding exceptions to free movement operate in the case law of national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union; Develop a comprehensive and original account of the empirical problems on the application of proportionality; and, Explore the legal and policy issues shaping the interactions between the EU and national authorities, including national courts, against the background of efforts made by the Member States to protect national differences.
Professor Koutrakos says the book has come about as a response to a number of issues and current developments highlighted in the public discourse around the EU and questions such as:
“How much leeway does EU law leave for Member States to intervene when free movement clashes with other policy interests? What type of restrictions may Member States impose? And how does EU law ensure that such restrictions are necessary and proportionate?”
He goes on to say that regarding the free movement of persons, “the debate about Brexit has raised questions about the type of restrictions that the EU may tolerate in its re-configured future relationship with the UK”.
The book examines free movement of persons in various chapters, including those on citizenship by Professor Eleanor Spaventa, on welfare quality and students by Sara Iglesias Sanchez and Dr Diego Acosta, on public policy by Professor Daniel Thym, on public security by Professor Koutrakos, on EU secondary legislation by Professor Phil Syrpis, and on the post-Lisbon climate by Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne.
Secondary legislation refers to all legislation enacted in the United Kingdom that is not considered an Act of Parliament. Secondary legislation, also called subordinate legislation, exists in two forms: delegated legislation and prerogative legislation. Delegated law mirrors the administrative rulemaking system in the United States, while laws qualifying as prerogative legislation derive from orders of the Crown