The Internal Market Ideal: Essays in Honour of Stephen Weatherill

The Internal Market Ideal honours the pathbreaking work of Professor Stephen Weatherill, Jacques Delors Professor of European Law at the University of Oxford (1998-2021). For more than three decades, Professor Weatherill has been the dominant figure in internal market debates, shaping the European Union’s Internal Market both at Oxford and internationally. Looming large in fields as disparate as consumer protection and sports law, his voice has guided how relevant laws and regulations are understood and how their varying virtues and pitfalls are perceived.

A reference to his seminal work The Internal Market as a Legal Concept (OUP, 2016), the present volume is not simply a celebration of Weatherill’s scholarship, but also an examination of the legal issues surrounding the semi-integrated market of the European Union. Across nineteen essays, the collection presents a vision of the European Union not yet achieved; that is, a Union which benefits from economic growth and pursues non-economic objectives, whilst carefully balancing respect for Member States’ autonomy and the European Union’s self-sufficiency.

The Internal Market Ideal is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of European Law.

Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor of Law, Magdalen College, Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law, University of Oxford, Sanja Bogojevic, Fellow and Professor of Law, Lady Margaret Hall and Oxford University, Dorota Leczykiewicz, Associate Professor of Law and Fellow, University of Oxford and St. Peterâs College

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at Magdalen College, Oxford. He read law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School, and is the author of over 100 articles and books, including most recently Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy (OUP) and Great Debates in EU Law (with Sanja Bogojevic ). His work has been recognised by prizes and awards including the Modern Law Review’s Wedderburn Prize, a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award, and the 2020 Leverhulme Prize. Since April 2021, he has led a five-year research project on Algorithms at Work, funded by the European Research Council.

Sanja Bogojevic is Fellow and Professor of Law at Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty of Law, Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford Law Faculty, she was Associate Professor (’Docent’) of Environmental Law at Lund University, Sweden, to which she remains affiliated as Visiting Professor. She is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Environmental Law, and author of Emissions Trading Schemes: Market, States and Law for which she was awarded the 2016 Nils Klim Prize for her ’outstanding contribution to the study of law’ and Great Debates in EU Law (with Jeremias Adams-Prassl), and co-editor of Discretion in EU Public Procurement Law, Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond.

Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Pembroke College, and the Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP) and the author, co-author, and editor of numerous books, including How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation, Competition Overdose, Virtual Competition, and EU Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases, 7e.

Dorota Leczykiewicz is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford. In the Oxford Law Faculty, she is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies (Taught Courses). Her work focuses on tort law, comparative private law, EU constitutional law and fundamental rights. She edited two books with Professor Stephen Weatherill: The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships and The Images of the Consumer in EU Law: Legislation, Free Movement and Competition Law.