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Key points
■ The first edition has sold extremely well and received excellent
reviews.
■ The editors are well known and experienced scholars.

Description
The historic attempt to adopt a Constitution for Europe and its eventual rejection by the electorates of France and the Netherlands led to a renewed and impassioned debate about the future of the EU. Now, with the adoption of the Reform Treaty, the debate about the constitutional architecture of Europe is once again in the full public gaze. More
than at any time in the past, Europe is engaged in a process of constitutionalisation which will shape its powers and activities for
a generation.
Following the warm critical reception given to the first edition of this work, the same editors and contributors have embarked on a second edition which once again presents European constitutional law not
merely as a project but as binding law, law which establishes public power, legitimates legal acts, provides for citizenship, protects fundamental rights, and regulates the relationships among legal orders as well as between law and politics. This, then, is European constitutional law both as it presently stands and as it will look following the Reform Treaty.
The contributions present its theoretical and doctrinal fundamentals from the perspective of German-speaking scholarship, reflecting the state of modern research and methodology, illuminating legal doctrines and assumptions, and identifying the future research agenda.

Reviews of the 1st Edition

‘...should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get a
holistic perspective of the academic debate on Europe's constitutional foundations...It is impossible to present the richness of thoughts contained in the 833 pages of the book in a short review.’
Common Market Law Review

‘…an enduring scholarly work, which gives an English-speaking audience important, and overdue, access to the long-standing
and forever-vigorous traditions of (European) constitutional
law... unhesitatingly recommend[ed].’ European Law Journal

The Editor
Armin von Bogdandy is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.
Jürgen Bast is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.