Synopses & Reviews
In a series of highly accessible discussions concerning the legal framework of the European Communities and the European Union, Joseph Weiler describes the gradual strengthening of transnational European institutions at the expense of national legislators. The Constitution of Europe thus provides from a legal perspective a balanced and uniquely authoritative critique of the attractions and demerits of the goal of European integration.
Review
"This book certainly should be read not only by those with an interest in European law and European political integration, but it should be read as well by anyone with an interest in how legal and political actors and institutions shape and constrain each other...Weiler writes with a clear, engaging, and entertaining prose...it is a book that would make sense in any number of graduate seminars, and a number of chapters would work rather well for advanced undergraduates as well." Law and Politics Book Review
Synopsis
'A uniquely authoritative legal critique of the attractions and demerits of European integration.'
Table of Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I. 'We Will Do ...': 1. Introduction: 'We will do, and hearken'; 2. The transformation of Europe; 3. Fundamental rights and fundamental boundaries: on the conflict of standards and values in the protection of human rights in the European legal space; 4. The external legal relations of non-unitary actors: mixity and the federal principle; 5. The least-dangerous branch: a retrospective and prospective of the European Court of Justice in the arena of political integration; Part II. 'We Will Hearken ...': 6. Introduction: the reformation of European constitutionalism; 7. Fin-de-siècle Europe: do the new clothes have an emperor?; 8. European democracy and its critics: policy and system; 9. The autonomy of the Community legal order: through the looking glass; 10. To be a European citizen: Eros and civilisation; Index.