Dermot Hodson is Reader in Political Economy at Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He has published extensively on European integration and governance and his books include Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad (2011), The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era (2015, edited with Christopher Bickerton and Uwe Puetter) and The Institutions of the European Union, 4th Edition (2017, edited with John Peterson). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy. Imelda Maher is the Sutherland Professor of European Law, University College Dublin. She has published extensively in EU law and her books include Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law (Cambridge, 2013, edited with M. Dowdle and J. Gillespie). She was general editor of Legal Studies (2012-17) and is a member of the editorial boards of the European Law Journal and of the Irish Yearbook of International Law. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and served as President of the Society of Legal Scholars in 2017.

'Overall, Hodson and Maher have made an important contribution to the literature on EU treaty making, which allows the reader to better understand the evolution of this process, as well as considering the future of treaty making for the EU and international actors in general.' Victoria Hooton, Parliaments, Estates & Representation

• 1. The transformation of EU treaty making; 2. Two level games, two level legitimacy and EU treaties; Part I. The Negotiation Stage: 3. EU treaty making and the partial eclipse of the IGC; Part II. The Consent Stage: 4. The rise of parliaments in EU treaty making; 5. The rise of referendums in EU treaty making; 6. The rise of higher courts in EU treaty making; 7. Explaining the transformation of EU treaty making; Part III. The Practice of EU Treaty Making: 8. How changing rules and norms have shaped EU treaty making; 9. Eight ideas for reforming EU treaty making; 10. The future of treaty making.

Dermot Hodson is Reader in Political Economy at Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He has published extensively on European integration and governance and his books include Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad (2011), The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era (2015, edited with Christopher Bickerton and Uwe Puetter) and The Institutions of the European Union, 4th Edition (2017, edited with John Peterson). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy. Imelda Maher is the Sutherland Professor of European Law, University College Dublin. She has published extensively in EU law and her books include Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law (Cambridge, 2013, edited with M. Dowdle and J. Gillespie). She was general editor of Legal Studies (2012-17) and is a member of the editorial boards of the European Law Journal and of the Irish Yearbook of International Law. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and served as President of the Society of Legal Scholars in 2017.

'Overall, Hodson and Maher have made an important contribution to the literature on EU treaty making, which allows the reader to better understand the evolution of this process, as well as considering the future of treaty making for the EU and international actors in general.' Victoria Hooton, Parliaments, Estates & Representation

• 1. The transformation of EU treaty making; 2. Two level games, two level legitimacy and EU treaties; Part I. The Negotiation Stage: 3. EU treaty making and the partial eclipse of the IGC; Part II. The Consent Stage: 4. The rise of parliaments in EU treaty making; 5. The rise of referendums in EU treaty making; 6. The rise of higher courts in EU treaty making; 7. Explaining the transformation of EU treaty making; Part III. The Practice of EU Treaty Making: 8. How changing rules and norms have shaped EU treaty making; 9. Eight ideas for reforming EU treaty making; 10. The future of treaty making.

Dermot Hodson is Reader in Political Economy at Birkbeck College, University of London and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. He has published extensively on European integration and governance and his books include Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad (2011), The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era (2015, edited with Christopher Bickerton and Uwe Puetter) and The Institutions of the European Union, 4th Edition (2017, edited with John Peterson). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy. Imelda Maher is the Sutherland Professor of European Law, University College Dublin. She has published extensively in EU law and her books include Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law (Cambridge, 2013, edited with M. Dowdle and J. Gillespie). She was general editor of Legal Studies (2012-17) and is a member of the editorial boards of the European Law Journal and of the Irish Yearbook of International Law. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and served as President of the Society of Legal Scholars in 2017.

'Overall, Hodson and Maher have made an important contribution to the literature on EU treaty making, which allows the reader to better understand the evolution of this process, as well as considering the future of treaty making for the EU and international actors in general.' Victoria Hooton, Parliaments, Estates & Representation

• 1. The transformation of EU treaty making; 2. Two level games, two level legitimacy and EU treaties; Part I. The Negotiation Stage: 3. EU treaty making and the partial eclipse of the IGC; Part II. The Consent Stage: 4. The rise of parliaments in EU treaty making; 5. The rise of referendums in EU treaty making; 6. The rise of higher courts in EU treaty making; 7. Explaining the transformation of EU treaty making; Part III. The Practice of EU Treaty Making: 8. How changing rules and norms have shaped EU treaty making; 9. Eight ideas for reforming EU treaty making; 10. The future of treaty making.