This volume provides unique insights into the recent practice of the EUs High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to shape the international legal order, written by renowned academics and practitioners.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
A Tribute to Stephan Marquardt in the Establishment and Development of the
eeas Legal Affairs Division 20102020
PART 1
Institutional Foundations
1 A Typology of Legal Acts in the European Unions Common Foreign and
Security Policy
Alvaro de Elera
2 Constructive Abstention in EU Foreign and Security Policy
Petra Mahni
3 The High Representative as New Actor before the Court of Justice of the
European Union
Graham Butler
4 Les personnels employés par lUnion dans le domaine de la pesc: des sagas
judiciaires ą lépreuve du droit statutaire
Karim Kouri
PART 2
Shaping and Conducting the EUs Common Foreign and Security Policy
5 EU Delegation Establishment Agreements with Third States: Positioning the
EU in International Diplomatic Law
Jan Karpiuk and Ramses A. Wessel
6 Les relations diplomatiques de lUnion européenne
Jean-Baptiste Laignelot et Stéphanie Lejeune
7 The European Unions Support for Negotiating a Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity
Simona Popan
8 Combating Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference through
EU-Restrictive Measures
Madalena de Almeida Veiga
9 Overcoming the Ultimate cfsp Hurdle on the Way to EU Accession to the
European Convention on Human Rights
Gilles Marhic
10 The European Union and Its Member States before the International Court of
Justice
Frank Hoffmeister and Jan Wouters
PART 3
Coordinating EU External Action as Vice President of the European Commission
11 The EUs Contribution to Holding Russia Accountable for Atrocity Crimes
Committed in Ukraine
André Bouquet, Chiara Fusari and Anna von Harnier
12 To Split or Not to Split: the EU-Chile Interim Trade and Advanced
Framework Agreements as a New Model in EU Treaty-Making?
Soledad Rodrķguez Sįnchez-Tabernero
13 The EU and the Draft UN Legally Binding Instrument on Protecting Human
Rights in Business Activities
Andrej Auersperger Mati
14 Directing cfsp Agencies of the Union: Which Hat of the High Representative
Fits Best?
Lórįnt Havas and Rastislav Spį
PART 4
Conclusion
15 The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and
Security Policy as Legal Actor
Frank Hoffmeister and Lórįnt Havas
Index
Frank Hoffmeister is the Head of the Legal Department of the European External Action Service and Professor at the Brussels School of Governance. Together with others, he also published The Law of EU External Relations (OUP, 2021, 3rd ed.).
Lórįnt Havas is the Deputy Head of the Division for International Law and EU External Relations Law at the Legal Department of the EEAS. He also teaches EU constitutional law and the law of international organisations at the Brussels School of Governance.
