The Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Neither Reckless nor Timid?​

Christopher Vajda 

Court of Justice of the European Union
November 18, 2014

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2014/47
Europa Working Paper No 2014/09 
Abstract:      

This paper was delivered as the 2013-2014 Annual Mitchell Lecture of the Europa Institute (29th September 2014). It starts with an overview of the origins of human rights law in the European Community, and then focuses on the impact of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and some of the issues that it has thrown up.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 14

Keywords: human rights, EU law, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

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