Takis Tridimas is the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law and the Head of the International Financial Law Unit of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.
Paolisa Nebbia is a Fellow and Tutor in Law of St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

This book is based on contributions made to the WG Hart Workshop 2003. It contains articles by leading experts seeking to assess the state of development of EU law some fifty years after the establishment of the Communities and to contribute to the current debate on the European Constitution. The first volume concentrates on the themes of European Constitutionalism and EU external relations. It analyses the proposed Constitution dealing, among others, with the division of competence between the EU and the Member States, Community legislation, the role of national parliaments, democracy in the EU, human rights, and the Court of Justice. It also contains articles on EU external relations covering, among others, enlargement, the common foreign and security policy, immigration and asylum policy, and the relations between the EU and the WTO.

1. Introduction
Takis Tridimas
2. Three Challenges for European Constitutionalism in the 21st Century
Francis Snyder
3. Judicial Review as a Contribution to the Development of European Constitutionalism
Koen Lenaerts and Tim Corthaut
4. Competences of the Union
George A Bermann
5. The Hierarchy of Norms
Paul Craig
6. Protecting Fundamental Rights in Europe's New Constitutional Order
Anthony Arnull
7. The European Court of Justice and the Draft Constitution: A Supreme Court for the Union?
Takis Tridimas
8. The European Commission: Should it be at the Heart of the Future European Union?
Mike Cuthbert and Sarah Willis
9. The Role of National Parliaments in the EU's New Constitutional Order
Adam Cygan
10. For Substantive Constitutionalism in the European Union
Bernard Ryan
11. Forgetting Law in the European Convention? Europe's 'Hidden' Constitution-Building and its Legitimation
Michelle Everson and Julia Eisner
12. The Draft EU Constitution and Private Party Access to Judicial Review of EU Measures
Angela Ward
13. Legality Review of Member States Discretion Under Directives
Chris Hilson
14. What is the Point of Francovich?
Michael Dougan
15. Lines in the Sand: Between Common Foreign Policy and Single Foreign Policy
Eileen Denza
16. Which Policy for Which Europe? The Emerging Security and Defence Policy of the European Union
Panos Koutrakos
17. Gripping Global Governance: The External Relations of the EU Between the Treaty of Nice and the Convention on the Future of Europe
Christoph Herrmann
18. Squaring the Circle for Tomorrow's World: A Comparative Analysis of the EC and WTO Approaches to Balancing Economic and Non-economic Interests in International Trade
Emily Reid
19. The Participation of the European Community in the World Trade Organisation: An External Look at European Union Constitution-Building
Antonis Antoniadis
20. EU Immigration and Asylum Law: Internal Market Model or Human Rights Model?
Steve Peers
21. A Missed Opportunity? EU Law and Asylum in the 21st Century
Hélène Lambert
22. Asylum and Immigration in the Context of Enlargement
Catherine Phuong
23. Enlargement: A Successful Instrument of Foreign Policy?
Marise Cremona
24. The European Employment Strategy and the Challenges of Enlargement
Samantha Velluti
25. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Is it a New Accession Condition for the Candidate Countries Especially in Light of the Post-Nice IGC?
Jenö Czuczai