Since the second edition was published in 2008, the Treaty of Lisbon has entered into force (December 1, 2009). Lisbon dramatically changed the constitutional structure of the European Union in many ways. As a result, the authors recast the structure of the book. This mainly involved creating a constitutional template"" (This is an entirely new Chapter 1) that reorganizes and simplifies the Treaty texts into a format that lends itself to a conceptual approach based on how we think of constitutions government, competences, separation of powers, human rights. Chapter 2 then provides a high-level expansion of the provisions set out in the template, The rest of the book expands in detail on that template, introducing (in our view) a fundamentally new and absolutely unique perspective for students and practitioners alike: what the EU is, in terms of its membership, objectives, institutions and autonomous status (equates to the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and the supremacy clause); the components of EU law (constitutional sources and legal acts of the Union); the Union legislature (describing the structure, procedures and powers of each of the relevant institutions); executive powers (describing the structure, procedures and powers of each of the relevant institutions); judicial powers (describing the structure, procedures and powers of each of the relevant institutions); the Unions competences; the limitations on the powers of the Member states to ensure the functioning of the internal market (where the case law is summarized, a necessary inclusion given that the actual treaty provisions on their own scarcely convey the true extent of the TFEUs reach in this regard); the position of the individual in relation to Union law (including fundamental rights and incorporation by reference of the Charter of Fundamental Rights); and relations between the Member States.

Constitutional Law of the European Union, 3rd Edition

James D. Dinnage

Jean-Luc Laffineur

Constitutional Law

Carolina Academic Press

This Documentary Supplement contains the Treaty on European Union, the EC Treaty, and the US Constitution. The EU documents are reproduced from the official consolidated versions available from the EU Website and the footnotes are part of those texts. The text of each document takes account of all amendments up to and including those relating to the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. The Documentary Supplement does not include the changes contemplated by the Treaty of Lisbon, which will likely not be in force by the end of 2008 as originally intended. Consequently, the Supplement materials will continue to reflect the law actually in effect beyond the end of 2008.

Constitutional Law of the European Union; Documentary Supplement

John F. Murphy

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