An overview of the structural characteristics that Community law acquired pursuant to the European Treaty, the subsequent Single European Act and the Treaty on European Union, and the Treaty of Amsterdam. This text undertakes a systematic analysis of Community law with particular attention given to those elements, especially case law, which influenced its development and interpretation.

Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice is a Festschrift for Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo which offers a broad and challenging view of the changing world society and the implications of globalization for the content and structure of the law, the development of judicial institutions and the shaping of world policies. Contributions made by judges of international tribunals, scholars, and practitioners offers insights into different aspects of globalization and its implications on changes in the world system. It examines a variety of current issues relating to international law, judicial institutions and global policies, focusing on different aspects of globalization and its implications on key areas of the world system, with a particular focus on issues such as, human rights, global justice, global politics global environment and public goods.
This special edition of The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence presents not only a systemic approach to changes in the world system but gives us the outline of the future evolution of the role of law, justice and policy in tomorrow's increasingly globalized society. Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice offers the advantage of simultaneously covering new insights into the meaning and function of the concept of globalization, combined with a thorough analysis of the evolutionary trends in key areas of the world system to provide a unified vision.
Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice is a special edition of The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, written in honor of Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo.