Treaty of Nice and Beyond

Mads Andenas is Professor of Law at the University of Leicester. John Usher is Professor of European Law and Head of the School of Law at University of Exeter.

...a book suitable for both experts in European law and other readers wanting to learn more about the European institutional system and recent and future changes to it. Nathalie Vandystadt Bulletin Quotidien Europe May 2004

• 1. The Convention on the Future of Europe: the Issues and ProspectsPeter Oliver2. European Union Law and National ConstitutionsJacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère and Ingolf Pernice3. The Allocation of Competences Between the European Union and its Member StatesUdo Di Fabio4. Rethinking the Methods of Dividing and Controlling the Competencies of the UnionIngolf Pernice5. European Constitutional Theory and the Post-Nice ProcessDaniel ThymPart II—The Treaty of Nice6. Assessment of the Treaty of Nice—Goals of Institutional ReformJohn A Usher7. Enhancing Cooperation After Nice: Will the Treaty Do the Trick?Jo Shaw8. The Treaty of Nice and the Treaty Structure: Repainting the Pillars?Steve Peers9. The Treaty of Nice and Social Policy: The Amendments to Article 137 ECHaris Kountouros10. Towards New Objectives for the Common Agricultural PolicyJoseph A McMahonPart III—The European Courts11. The European Courts after NicePiet Eeckhout12. Effective Judicial Protection of Individuals in the European Union, Now and in the FutureFrancis G Jacobs13. The Past and Future of the Preliminary Rulings ProcedureAnthony Arnull14. A European Certiorari RevisitedLiz HeffernanPart IV—The Human Rights Charter15. A Charter of Rights, Freedoms and PrinciplesLord Goldsmith16. The EU Charter of Rights: A Poor Attempt to Strengthen Democracy and Citizenship?Sionaidh Douglas Scott17. A German View of the Charter: The Effect on the BundesverfassungsgerichtJürgen Schwarze