Gráinne de Búrca has been professor of European Union Law at the European University Institute since 1998. Prior to that she was a lecturer in law at Oxford University and fellow of Somerville College from 1990-1998. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Toronto, Michigan, Columbia and NYU. Her field of expertise is broadly in EU law, with particular focus on constitutional issues of European integration, EU human rights policy and European and transnational governance. She is co-director of the EUI's Academy of European Law and series co-editor of two OUP book series: Oxford Studies in European Law, and the Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. She is co-author with Paul Craig of the textbook EU Law, currently in its third edition.;

Larissa Ogertschnig is researcher in the Department of Law at the European University Institute where she is currently completing her PhD on EU Democracy Assistance to the states of the former Soviet Union. She holds a law degree from the University of Vienna and a Diploma in International Studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies - Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center. She has worked with governmental and non-governmental organizations in the field of university reform in several states of Central Asia and was stagiaire in the Delegation of the European Commission in the Ukraine. Her research interests are in the field of EU external relations, human rights and democratization.

Bruno de Witte has been professor of European Union Law at the European University Institute in Florence since 2000. Prior to that he was a professor of EU law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He is co-director of the EUI's Academy of European Law and series co-editor of the OUP book series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. His main fields of research are the constitutional law of the European Union and legal issues of cultural diversity, language regulation and minority protection in Europe.

• I


• 1: Gráinne de Búrca: The Future of Social Rights Protection in Europe


• 2: Cécile Fabre: Social Rights in European Constitutions


• II The European Social Charter


• 3: Régis Brillat: The Supervisory Machinery of the European Social Charter: Recent Developments and Their Impact


• 4: Philip Alston: Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of the European Social Charter's Supervisory System


• 5: Gisella Gori: Domestic Enforcement of the European Social Charter: The Way Forward


• 6: Jean-François Akandji-Kombé: The Material Impact of the Jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights


• III The European Union


• 7: Olivier De Schutter: Anchoring the European Union to the European Social Charter: The Case for Accession


• 8: Bruno de Witte: The Trajectory of Fundamental Social Rights in the European Union


• 9: Brian Bercusson: Social and Labour Rights under the EU Constitution


• 10: Silvana Sciarra: Fundamental Labour Rights after the Lisbon Agenda


• 11: Stijn Smismans: How to Be Fundamental with Soft Procedures? The Open Method of Coordination and Fundamental Social Rights


• IV ESC Jurisprudence and the EU Acquis: the Common Core and the Added Value?


• 12: Diamond Ashiagbor: The Right to Work


• 13: Mark Bell: Walking in the Same Direction? The Contribution of the European Social Charter and the European Union to Combating Discrimination


• 14: Gerard Quinn: The European Social Charter and EU Anti-discrimination Law in the Field of Disability: Two Gravitational Fields with One Common Purpose


• 15: Tamara K. Hervey: We Don't See a Connection: The 'Right to Health' in the EU Charter and European Social Charter


• V Beyond Europe's Borders


• 16: Alexandra Gatto: The Integration of Social Rights Concerns in the External Relations of the European Union


• 17: Marie-Ange Moreau: European Fundamental Social Rights in the Context of Economic Globalization