The new edition of this influential textbook gathers leading lawyers and political scientists to provide an overview of the changing legal picture in Europe, including the reforms instigated by the Lisbon Treaty negotiations. Authors analyse the evolution of the law across time, giving readers a clearer understanding of how the EU is developing.

1: Paul Craig: Introduction; 2: Paul Craig: Integration, Democracy, and Legitimacy; 3: Paul Craig: Institutions, Power, and Institutional Balance; 4: Kieran St Clair Bradley: Powers and Procedures in the EU Constitution: Legal Bases and the Court; 5: Martin Shapiro: Independent Agencies; 6: Alec Stone Sweet: The European Court of Justice; 7: Deirdre M. Curtin & Ige F. Dekker: The European Union from Maastricht to Lisbon: Institutional and Legal Unity out of the Shadows; 8: Christophe Hillion: EU Enlargement; 9: Marise Cremona: External Relations and External Competence of the European Union: The Emergence of an Integrated Policy; 10: Steve Peers: EU Justice and Home Affairs Law (non-civil); 11: Eva Storskrubb: Civil Justice - A Newcomer and an Unstoppable Wave?; 12: Bruno de Witte: Direct Effect, Primacy and the Nature of the Legal Order; 13: Thomas de la Mare & Catherine Donnelly: Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Stasis; 14: Michael Dougan: The Vicissitudes of Life at the Coalface: Remedies and Procedures for Enforcing Union Law before the National Courts; 15: Carol Harlow: Three Phases in the Evolution of EU Administrative Law; 16: Gráinne De Búrca: The Evolution of EU Human Rights Law; 17: Siofra O'Leary: Free Movement of Persons and Services; 18: Jukka Snell: Free Movement of Capital: Evolution as a Non-Linear Process; 19: Jo Shaw: Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism; 20: Mark Bell: The Principle of Equal Treatment: Widening and Deepening; 21: Catherine Barnard: EU 'Social' Policy: From Employment Law to Labour Market Reform; 22: Francis Snyder: EMU - Integration and Differentiation: Metaphor for European Union; 23: Imelda Maher: Competition Law Modernization: An Evolutionary Tale?; 24: Leigh Hancher & Pierre Larouche: The Coming of Age of EU Regulation of Network Industries and Services of General Economic Interest; 25: Takis Tridimas: EU Financial Regulation: Federalization, Crisis Management and Law Reform; 26: Joanne Scott: The Multi-Level Governance of Climate Change; 27: Stephen Weatherill: Consumer Policy; 28: Rachael Craufurd Smith: Culture and European Union Law: Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride?