Empowerment and Disempowerment of the European Citizen

This collection engages with a central theme on EU citizenship - the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others - and expands the horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration. The focus of the book is distinctly citizen-focused. It delivers the potential for the opening out of analysis of the implications of European citizenship beyond the parameters of Articles 18-25 TFEU and beyond the disciplinary confines of legal analysis alone. The book construes 'EU citizenship' in its broadest sense, and explores the extent to which the European citizen is, or indeed is not, genuinely at the heart of EU law and policy making. What is the purpose and role of this transnational, regional regulator, given that citizen concerns seem focused primarily at either the infra State or global levels? Within the broader theme of empowerment and disempowerment, the book's contributors reflect on a range of cross cutting themes, for example: the extent to which channels of citizen participation (can) inform EU policy making in a 'bottom-up' sense, or whether the EU is a catalyst for the construction of new spaces and new identities. (Series: Modern Studies in European Law - Vol. 35)

Michael Dougan is Professor of European Law, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law and Dean of the Liverpool Law School at the University of Liverpool.Niamh Nic Shuibhne is Professor of EU Law at the University of Edinburgh.Eleanor Spaventa is Professor of EU Law at Durham University.