Social Rights in Europe
Edited by Grainne de Burca, Professor of European Law, European University Institute, Florence and Bruno de Witte, Professor of European Law, European University Institute and the Robert Schuman Centre with the assistance of Larissa Ogertschnig, Researcher, European University Institute
Oxford University Press
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I .INTRODUCTION
1. The Future of Social Rights Protection in Europe
Gráinne de Búrca
2. Social Rights in European Constitutions
Cécile Fabre
PART II. THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER
3. The Supervisory Machinery of the European Social Charter: Recent
Developments and their Impact
Régis Brillat
4. Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of the European Social
Charter’s Supervisory System
Philip Alston
5. Domestic Enforcement of the European Social Charter:
The Way Forward
Gisella Gori
6. The Material Impact of the Jurisprudence of the European
Committee of Social Rights
Jean-François Akandji-Kombé
PART III. THE EUROPEAN UNION
7. Anchoring the European Union to the European Social
Charter: The Case for Accession
Olivier De Schutter
8. The Trajectory of Fundamental Social Rights in the European Union
Bruno de Witte
9. Social and Labour Rights under the EU Constitution
Brian Bercusson
10. Fundamental Labour Rights after the Lisbon Agenda
Silvana Sciarra
11. How to Be Fundamental with Soft Procedures? The Open Method
of Coordination and Fundamental Social Rights
Stijn Smismans
PART IV. ESC JURISPRUDENCE AND THE EU ACQUIS: THE COMMON CORE AND THE ADDED VALUE
12. The Right to Work
Diamond Ashiagbor
13. Walking in the Same Direction? The Contribution of the European Social Charter and the European Union to Combating Discrimination
Mark Bell
14. The European Social Charter and EU Anti-discrimination Law in the Field of Disability: Two Gravitational Fields with One Common Purpose
Gerard Quinn
15. We Don’t See a Connection: The ‘Right to Health’ in the EU Charter and European Social Charter
Tamara K. Hervey
PART V. BEYOND EUROPE’S BORDERS
16. The Integration of Social Rights Concerns in the External Relations of the European Union
Alexandra Gatto
17. European Fundamental Social Rights in the Context of Economic Globalization
Marie-Ange Moreau