Revisiting the international legal status of the EU

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 507-537

  Wessel, Ramses A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84937547778     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011447813386     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. 'The International Legal Status of the European Union', 2 EFA Rev. (1997), pp. 109-129.
2. See on this topic R. A. Wessel, 'The Inside Looking Out: Consistency and Delimitation in EU External Relations', CML Rev. (2000), pp. 1135-1171.
3. The present article is partly based on R. A. Wessel, The European Union's Foreign and Security Policy: A Legal Institutional Analysis (Kluwer Law International, The Hague 1999).
4. H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1961, 1994) at p. 233.
5. J. Klabbers, The Concept of Treaty in International Law (Kluwer Law International, The Hague 1996) at p. 2.
6. See D. W. P. Ruiter, 'Structuring Legal Institutions', Law and Philosophy (1998), pp. 215-232.
7. Based on P. H. F. Bekker, The Legal Position of Intergovernmental Organizations: A Functional Necessity Analysis of Their Legal Status and Immunities (Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1994) at p. 53.
8. D. W. P. Ruiter, 'A Basic Classification of Legal Institutions', 10 Ratio Juris (1997), pp. 357-371 at p. 358.
9. See W. Werner, 'Speech Act Theory and the Concept of Sovereignty: A Critique of the Descriptivistic and the Normativistic Fallacy', (unpublished paper, 2000) at pp. 7-8.
10. N. D. White, The Law of International Organizations (Manchester University Press, 1996) at p. 27.
11. C. F. Amerasinghe, Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 1996) at p. 83.
12. See D. W. P. Ruiter, 'Institutions from the Perspective of Institutional Legal Theory', NIG working papers 95-15 (University of Twente, 1995) at pp. 12-17.
13. E. Paasivirta, 'The European Union: From an Aggregate of States to a Legal Person?', Hofstra Law & Policy Symposium (1997), pp. 37-59;
14. See D. W. P. Ruiter, 'Normative and Real Institutions', in B. Steunenberg and F. van Vught (eds.), Political Institutions and Public Policy (Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Hague 1997), pp. 67-81 at pp. 65-66.
15. P. J. Kuyper, 'The Netherlands and International Organizations', in H. F. van Panhuys et al. (eds.), International Law in the Netherlands, Vol. II (Alphen aan den Rijn, 1979), pp. 3-41 at pp. 15-19.
16. See Article 3 of the Status Agreement, reprinted in A. Bloed and R. A. Wessel, The Changing Functions of the Western European Union: Introduction and Basic Documents (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1994).
17. See in that respect A. Dashwood, 'The Council of the European Union in the Era of the Amsterdam Treaty', in Heukels et al., above note 9, pp. 117-129 at p. 126, who also referred to the Union's 'sub-orders' rather than to 'pillars'.