The first book to examine the creation and function of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.

Philip Alston is Professor at New York University and previously chaired the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1991-98).
Olivier De Schutter is a Global Law Professor at New York University and Co-ordinator of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. He is also a Professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at the College of Europe (Natolin).

Introduction,by P. Alston and O. De Schutter
Part I. The Constitutional Background
1. "New modes of governance" and the implementation of fundamental rights, by Gráinne de Búrca
2. Mainstreaming fundamental rights in the EU, by Olivier De Schutter
3. The relationship between the Network of Independent Experts and the Agency, by Martin Scheinin
4. The Agency and national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, by Manfred Nowak
Part II. The Tasks Ahead
5. The contribution of the Agency to the realisation of civil and political rights, by Steve Peers
6. The contribution of the Agency to combating discrimination, by Christopher McCrudden
7. The contribution of the Agency to the realisation of social and economic rights, by Philip Alston
8. The contribution of the Agency to the realisation of workers' rights, by Brian Bercusson
Part III. The EU Fundamental Rights Agency in a Wider Context
9. The contribution of the Agency to the implementation in the EU of international and European human rights instruments, by Rick Lawson
10. The contribution of the Agency to the external policies of the EU, by Mielle Bulterman