Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction Introduction Piet Eeckhout and Manuel López-Escudero Part II: The EU Institutional System for External Action at Work 1. The Reluctant (Lisbon) Treaty and Its Implementation in the Practice of the Council Ricardo Gosalbo-Bono and Frederik Naert 2. The External Powers of the European Parliament Ricardo Passos 3. The Court of Justice and External Competences After Lisbon: Some Reflections on the Latest Case Law Fernando Castillo de la Torre Part III: International Law as Law of the EU 4. The Integration of Public International Law in EU Law: Analytical and Normative Questions Piet Eeckhout 5. Customary International Law and the European Union from the Perspective of Article 3(5) TEU Eleftheria Neframi 6. The Legal Status and Influence of Decisions of International Organisations and Other Bodies in the European Union Ramses A Wessel and Steven Blockmans 7. The Relationship of the Member States’ International Agreements with the EU Javier Roldán Barbero 8. The Contribution of the EU to the Development of Customary Norms in the Field of Human Rights Protection José Rafael Marín Aís Part IV: Membership, Representation and Performance of the European Union in International Organisations 9. Brussels Meets Westphalia: The European Union and the United Nations Jan Wouters and Anna-Luise Chané 10. The Consistency of the European Union’s Human Rights Policy at the United Nations Carmela Pérez Bernárdez 11. The European Union in the International Monetary and Financial System Dominique Carreau 12. EU-IMF Relations: The Long Way to a Single EU Chair in the IMF Manuel López-Escudero Part V: Substantive Areas of the EU External Action 13. The Transformation of the EU Common Commercial Policy Christine Kaddous 14. The European Union Facing Investment Arbitration Javier Diez-Hochleitner 15. From External Policy to Free Trade: The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Antonio Segura Serrano 16. The External Dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: An Essential Part of the European Union’s External Action José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares 17. The EU Antiterrorist Sanctions Enzo Cannizzaro 18. The European Union’s Arms Trade Control and European Civil Society Inmaculada Marrero Rocha

About the Author

Piet Eeckhout is Professor of EU Law, University College London. Manuel Lopez-Escudero is Professor of EU law and Public International Law, University of Granada.