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Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine --- "Conclusions" [2017] ELECD 939; in Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine (eds), "Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 309

Book Title: Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law

Editor(s): Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435736

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Conclusions

Author(s): Bardutzky, Samo; Fahey, Elaine

Number of pages: 6

Abstract/Description:

Exploring the idea that terms ‘subject’ and ‘object’ can become useful in researching and reflecting upon EU law, we had the privilege of gathering a diverse group of scholars who engaged with this idea and attempted to introduce it to their case studies on very different issues of EU law. After the first, to a large extent exploratory, workshop that we held in November 2015, some of the potential uses of the lexicon of subjects and objects gradually became identifiable. In the paper that we wrote while developing this project and that later evolved into what is now the introductory chapter of this volume, we proposed that the lexicon of subjects was particularly useful in observing three elements that define the character of EU law: transformations, crises and the external-internal nexus or dynamics of EU law. The authors have all engaged with this background narrative provided in the introduction, for which we are grateful. We thus drew upon these three elements to develop the structure of the project and organised the case studies presented in the book in three parts (Parts II–IV) that correspond to the three elements identified. We chose to open with an additional part (Part I) which joins the accounts with a more accentuated theoretical discussion rather than case study. As the edited volume grew, it also became more and more evident that the three elements appear side by side in a number of accounts presented here.