‘Reconceptualising the Social Dimension of Business Freedoms through a Fundamental Rights Lens’

The balancing of economic and social rights and interests has provoked an almost perennial discussion within the context of the deepening and widening of European Union (EU) integration. In my forthcoming monograph, Business Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in European Union Law (OUP 2024), I explore further the fundamental rights implications of this debate, with an emphasis on the freedom to conduct a business as a fundamental right, not in isolation, but rather within its wider constitutional and fundamental (social) rights context. I argue that there are underexplored ‘social’ dimensions to business freedoms as fundamental rights within EU law … (more)

[Niall O’Connor, Transformative Private Law Blog, 21 October 2024]

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