Author Description

About the Author Alain Levasseur is the Hermann Moyse, Sr. Professor of Law and Associate Director for International Studies, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Richard F. Scott is Distinguished Professor of International Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Arnaud Raynouard is a professor at Universite Toulouse. Melchior Wathelet is a professor at the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve and Liege. Product Description This work invites readers in law, as well as those in political science, international relations, and similar disciplines to witness the fast growing emergence of a "new legal order": the law of the European Union (EU) and European Communities. Ever since its early founding through daring steps in the 1950s, Community law has gone through formidable and complex developments resulting from several enlargements and the expansion of the powers of the Communities. For reasons laid out in this book, the EU as a whole is now a field of major interest and study. This volume deals mostly with issues pertaining to the sovereignty of the member states engaged in the construction of Europe. After presenting a history of the Communities and EU, Levasseur and Scott address topics such as the EU's constitutional principles, its institutions, the sources of law, the legal remedies available, and the relationship between Community law and national legal orders. Comparative law references have been added where appropriate. In addition, this work examines the EU's defense policies and the special relations between the EU and the USA. Review "This much more understandable work uses a European approach to a European subject, while still including an appropriate number of cases as part of the overall presentation." --On Studying European Law --A Comparative Review of the Two Leading Books, The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 2003"We... find in [the book] all the qualities of an excellent casebook, where the goal of providi