Making Sense of European Union Law

Monica Claes is Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Ellen Vos is Professor of European Union Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

• PART ICONSTITUTIONAL EUROPE1. Questioning the EU’s ‘Principled Openness’ to International Law: An Examination of the Court’s Reception of the Aarhus Convention and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Gráinne de Búrca (New York University, UK), Claire Kilpatrick (European University Institute, Italy), and Joanne Scott (European University Institute, Italy)2. Mixed Agreements and Constitutional Gaps Marise Cremona (European University Institute, Italy)3. The European Union and National Constitutional Values Monica Claes (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)PART IIDIFFERENTIATED EUROPE4. Differentiation and Flexibility in EU Law Ellen Vos (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)5. Recomposing the EU: Flying Together Beyond Turbulence Deirdre Curtin (European University Institute, Italy)PART IIISOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL EUROPE6. On the ‘Slow Constitutionalisation’ of Social Europe Diamond Ashiagbor (University of Kent, UK)7. The Emergence of a European Union Law of Education Hildegard Schneider (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)PART IVMINORITIES EUROPE8. Protection of Minorities in EU Law Iyiola Solanke (University of Oxford, UK)9. Minorities in the European Court of Human Rights (Or How the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Was Awakened to their Cultural and Political Assertiveness) Dia Anagnostou (Panteion University of Social Sciences, Greece)10. On Democracy, Courts and Minority Rights: Mobilising Supranational Courts against Authoritarian Regimes Dilek Kurban (European University Institute, Italy)PART VSCHOLARLY EUROPE11. How to Introduce the EU Legal Order? Some Thoughts on Framework and Method Elise Muir (KU Leuven, Belgium)12. Pragmatism and EU Law Niamh Nic Shuibhne (University of Edinburgh, UK)PART VIRETHINKING ACADEMIA: BRUNO DE WITTE13. Rethinking Academia: Bruno De Witte Ruth Rubio Marín (University of Sevilla, Spain)