How should EU law respond to emergencies? More specifically, to what degree can fundamental rights be suspended in order to respond to an unprecedented crises?

These questions are at the core of this open access book, asked initially in response to COVID-19 and its resulting restrictions but then as a more general conceptual examination. It looks at the question over five parts; opening with two general aspects: constitutional law and governance. It then takes a more applied approach, looking at three case studies: migration, climate change, and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Fascinating, insightful and considered, it ensures lessons can be learnt.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

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A fascinating exploration of how EU law should respond in the face of unprecedented emergencies such as COVID-19, or the migration crisis.

Part One: Constitutional Challenges
1. Emergencies and Constitutional Dilemmas in EU Law, Sanja Bogojevic (University of Oxford, UK) and Annika Consiglio (Lund University, Sweden)
2. Crisis is the ‘New Black’: The Constitutional Implications of The Proliferating Talk of ‘Crises’ in Politics, Helle Krunke (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
3. Emergency in Constitutional Proportionality Review: The Freedom of Judges and Its Limits in Europe, Laurianne Allezard (Lund University, Sweden)

Part Two: Governance
4. Rethinking the EU Emergency Law: Towards a General Supranational Emergency Clause?, Federico Casolari and Anna Pau (University of Bologna, Italy)
5. The Emergency Models of the Nordic Countries: Four Peas in a Pod?, Anna Zemskova (Lund University, Sweden)
6. Scaffolding an Era of Emergencies: Lessons from Canada’s Emergencies Act, Jocelyn Stacey (University of British Colombia, Canada)

Part Three: Migration
7. The Constitutional Implications of Emergency Measures in European Migration and Asylum Law, Salvatore Nicolosi (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
8. Economic Emergencies and EU Migration Law: A Blast from the Past, Alezini Loxa (Lund University, Sweden)
9. Legal Sources in Times of ‘Crisis’: How Sweden’s Migration Courts Responded to the 2016 Temporary Migration Law, Lovisa Häckner Posse (Södertörn University, Sweden)

Part Four: Climate Change
10. Who Decides, and How, When Things Fall Apart? Climate Emergency, Public Participation and The Role of EU Law, Chiara Armeni (Université de Bruxelles, Belgium)
11. Climate Emergency, Vulnerability and Justice: The Ambivalent Dynamic of the European Green Deal, Nathalie Herve-Fournereau (University of Rennes, France)

Part Five: COVID-19 Pandemic
12. Discretion in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic and EU/EEA law: A Study of the Precautionary and Proportionality Principles in Emergency Situations, Xavier Groussot (Lund University, Sweden) and Katharina Girbinger (Oberlandsgericht München, Germany)
13. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Parliamentary Oversight in Finland, Tuukka Brunila, Janne Salminen and Mehrnoosh Farzamfar (University of Turku, Finland)
14. Review of Covid-19 Measures by the European Court of Human Rights: How to Avoid the ‘Fair’, the ‘Balance’ and ‘the Fair Balance’, Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University, Sweden)

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A fascinating exploration of how EU law should respond in the face of unprecedented emergencies such as COVID-19, or the migration crisis.
Asks the question: what is the correct response of EU law to emergencies, particularly from the fundamental rights perspective

Thematic volumes devoted to the its development, impact and reform of European law from the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies.
This series reflects the variety of issues and dilemmas that European law faces and includes inquiries into specific areas of EU law and policy, as well as overarching questions of EU institutional and constitutional law. The volumes in the series are edited by members of the Network and contain original, analytical contributions by Swedish, Nordic and international scholars, who are experts in the respective thematic field. The contributions are discussed at conferences, workshops and symposia organized and funded by the Network.

More information about the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies is available at: www.snef.se

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ISBN
9781509993321
Publisert
2026-04-30
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
368

Biografisk notat

Sanja Bogojevic is Fellow and Associate Professor of Law at Lady Margaret Hall and University of Oxford, UK.
Xavier Groussot is Professor of European Law and Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden.