State-of-Art Report on the Current Scholarship on the Law-Security Nexus in Europe. Deliverable D.2.1.

This report reviews the current state of knowledge on the relationship between security and law in Europe. It is the first deliverable of WP2 of the INEX project, whose general objective is to contribute to existing understandings of European security through an analysis of the value-based premises and ethical consequences of the 'internal/external security continuum'. WP2, concerned with the 'Cross-border Legal Dilemmas of the Internal/External Security Continuum', aims at analysing the ethical value assumptions implicit in transnational legal dilemmas of European security practice.Two basic perspectives on legal norms coexist in security-related research: one, essentially descriptive, deals with the ways in which norms are produced and sustained; the other, predominately normative, subjects norms to critical analysis. This paper aims to bring together both, in the belief that a crucial step in considering legal change is to grasp analytically the conditions giving rise to it.