One of my colleagues here at Utrecht, Sybe de Vries (Jean Monnet Chair in EU Single Market Law and Fundamental Rights) has, together with Ulf Bernitz and Stephen Weatherill, edited a book entitled ‘The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU After Lisbon’ (Hart Publishing 2013). The book also goes into the interrelations between fundamental rights in the legal order of the European Union and the rights protected in the European Convention on Human Rights. This is the abstract:
The changes made by the Lisbon Treaty suggest that its entry into force in
December 2009 marks a new stage in the shaping of the EU’s commitment to the
protection of fundamental rights. This book’s concern is to provide an
examination of the several (and interlocking) challenges which the Lisbon
reforms present. The book will not only address the fresh and intriguing
challenges for the EU as an entity committed to the protection and promotion of
fundamental rights presented by developments ‘post-Lisbon’, but also a number of
conundrums about the scope and method of protection of fundamental rights in the
EU which existed ‘pre-Lisbon’ and which endure. The book consists of three
parts. The first part is concerned with the safeguarding of fundamental rights
in Europe’s internal market. The second part of the book is entitled ‘The Scope
of Fundamental Rights in EU Law’ and the chapters discuss the reach of
fundamental rights and their horizontal dimension. The last part of this book
deals with ‘The Constitutional Dimension of Fundamental Rights’ analysing the
special relationship between the ECJ and the ECtHR and the issue of rights
competition between the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights, the European
Convention on Human Rights and national rights catalogues. [my emphasis, A.B.]
