Book contents
- International Law and the European Union
- International Law and the European Union
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1 The European Union in International Law
- 2 Customary International Law
- 3 The Law of Treaties
- 4 International Organizations
- 5 International Dispute Settlement
- 6 International Responsibility
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Index
7 - Concluding Remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
- International Law and the European Union
- International Law and the European Union
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1 The European Union in International Law
- 2 Customary International Law
- 3 The Law of Treaties
- 4 International Organizations
- 5 International Dispute Settlement
- 6 International Responsibility
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Index
Summary
When the European Communities were first established they were a form of ‘legal experiment’, in which international law was used as the building blocks of a new type of international organization. Discussions about the European Union from an international law perspective often looked at how the EU could be a model for the functioning of the international legal order. Cassese, for example, put EU law forward as a model for the international system, especially the way in which EU law can have supremacy over inconsistent national law.
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- International Law and the European Union , pp. 246 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021