The European Union has undergone major changes in the last decade, including Treaty reform, and a significant expansion of activity in foreign and security policy, and justice and home affairs. In the first edition of this influential textbook, a team of leading lawyers and political scientists reflected upon the important developments in their chosen area over the time since the EC was formed. This new edition continues this analysis ten years on. Taking into account the social and political background, and without losing sight of the changes that came before, in each chapter the contributors analyze the principle themes and assess the legal and political forces that have shaped its development. Each author addresses a specific topic, event, or theme, from the European Court of Justice to Treaty reform; the enlargement of the EU to administrative law; the effect of EU law on culture to climate change. Together the chapters tell the story of the rapid development of EU law - its past, present, and future.

Professor Paul Craig, FBA, QC, has taught at Oxford since 1976. He has written extensively about EU Law, including EU Law, Text Cases and Materials, written with Grainne de Burca, EU Administrative Law, and The Lisbon Treaty.

Grainne de Burca is Professor at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Law at Fordham Law School from 2006-2009, Professor of EU Law at the European University Institute from 1998-2005, and Fellow and Lecturer in law at Oxford University from 1990-1998. Her books include EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials, (currently in its 4th edition and co-written with Paul Craig); Law and New Governance in the European Union and the United States, co-edited with Joanne Scott, and EU Law and the Welfare State.

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