Timothy Moorhead is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent. His research interests include: Analytic Jurisprudence, European Union Law. His publications include: 'European Union Law as International Law' (2012) 5, 1 European Journal of Legal Studies; and, 'The Values of the European Union Legal Order: Constitutional Perspectives' [2014], 1 European Journal of Law Reform.

The objective of European integration serves as an ideal of the legal order of the European Union and invites reconsideration of law's conceptual features. This book critically assesses the legal order of the European Union, focusing on the operative aspects of the Union constitution with particular reference to the institutional practices of the Court of Justice in expressing the values underlying this constitution.

1. Introductory Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Law and the Law of the European Union 3. Institutional Perspectives on the Legal order of the European Union 4. The Court of Justice 5. The Values of the European Union Legal Order: Constitutional Perspectives 6. Union or Member State Kompetenz Kompetenz: Constitutional Questions in the Relationship between Union and Domestic Orders 7. European Union Law as International law 8. Concluding Chapter