European Employment Law
本书评分析了Karl Riesenhuber的《欧洲雇佣法》教科书，探讨其如何平衡欧盟法框架与各国劳动法细节，并成功面向不同法律传统的读者。
European employment law textbooks are already an established subgenre in academic writing. The need to merge general aspects of EU law and policy with the autonomous traits of EU employment law and of national labour laws renders the drafting of a textbook in this subject a very complex exercise in legal writing, as it is often difficult to build an account of this discipline that is balanced in providing fundamental information on the overall EU law’s framework together with a detailed description of labour regulation. All the more difficult is making such an account in dialoguing with a legal tradition different from one’s own, as in the case of a civil law scholar updating and re-editing a handbook initially conceived for a certain national audience, to adapt its content for an international readership. This is the case of European Employment Law by Karl Riesenhuber, which can be regarded as a successful attempt in all of the above. His account of the subject, avowedly, ‘cannot mask its Author’s German background, perspective and methods’ (p xi); nonetheless, the book is, overall, definitely approachable from readers from different legal traditions and, it will be remarked below, it manages to convey a clear picture of the subject together with useful insights on the Author’s national legal culture.