Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law

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Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements 1. The subjects and objects of EU law: exploring a research platform PART I Reframing subjects and objects of EU law: normative motivations and theoretical underpinnings 2. The subject and object in the interpretation of EU law 3. Subject-object dialectics and social change 4. Subjects and technologies of European governance: reflections on suspect crossings 5. Who, then, in [European] law, is my neighbour? Limiting the argument from external effects PART II Transformations: from subjects to objects, from objects to subjects 6. Subjects and objects of EU human rights law 7. Local governments as subjects and objects of EU law: legitimate limits? 8. Citizenship-for-sale schemes and EU law: can third-country nationals buy their way into becoming subjects of EU law? 9. The turning of non-state entities from objects to subjects of EU restrictive measures PART III The external-internal nexus of EU law and its subjects and objects 10. The EU as an international person between functionalism and constitutionalism 11. Evolution of the role of third countries in EU law – towards full legal subjectivity? 12. From objects to subjects: paving the way for third countries and their natural and legal persons 13. Beyond rhetoric? Social conditionality in the EU’s external trade relations PART IV Subjects and objects in Europe’s crises 14. European integration in a crisis scenario: easy steps to revitalise the EU as a subject and to avoid disintegration? 15. Homo objectus, homo subjectus and Brexit 16. Who do we think we are? Citizenship post-Brexit 17. Conclusions Index