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ENLARGEMENT, THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION, AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

Jürgen Schwarze
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The subject of this article is the current state of administrative law in the context of the European integration. It will indicate the prospects for development of administrative law offered by the Convention on the Future of Europe, and its proposed European Constitution, as well as the enlargement of the EU which has taken place. The focus is on rules and general principles of European administrative law. They constitute the main sources of administrative law—written rules as well as unwritten judge-made law, and both the development of these sources and their mutual influence are subjects of the present article.

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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 969 - 984
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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2004

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