Anthony Arnull graduated from the University of Sussex in 1980 and qualified as a solicitor in 1983. From 1983-1989, he was a lecturer in law at the University of Leicester, where he was awarded his PhD in 1988. He was a Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities in the Chambers of Advocate General FG Jacobs from 1989 to 1992, when he took up the Chair of European Law at the University of Birmingham. In 1994, he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In 1998, he acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities. Professor Arnull is co-editor of the European Law Review. He is a member of the following: the JUSTICE Expert Panel on the European Union; the Advisory Board of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and that Board's Community Law Section; and the editorial board of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies

Daniel Wincott has undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of Manchester and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has worked at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick (where he held a Jean Monnet Chair in Law and Politics) before moving to the University of Birmingham in 1995. In 2001 he was a special advisor on European Governance to Neil Kinnock, Vice President of the European Commission. He is an editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. His main research interests concern the European Union (especially the politics of European law) and comparative public policy, and he has published papers in leading journals including The European Law Journal, Government and Opposition, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Political Studies and Public Administration.

• Foreword by the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, Member, European Commission


• List of contributors


• List of abbreviations


• 1: Introduction


• Part I: Institutions and Decision-making


• 2: Alan Dashwood: Issues of Decision-making in the European Union after Nice


• 3: Adrian Hyde-Price: Decision-making under the Second Pillar


• 4: Jörg Monar: Decision-Making in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice


• 5: Peter Dyrberg: Accountability and Legitimacy: What is the Contribution of Transparency?


• 6: John A Usher: Enhanced Cooperation or Flexibility in the Post-Nice Era


• 7: Anand Menon and Stephen Weatherill: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Delegation in the European Union


• 8: Laurence W Gormley: The Judicial Architecture of the European Union after Nice


• 9: Fabian Amtenbrink: On the Legitimacy and Democratic Accountability of the European Central Bank: Legal Arrangements and Practical Experiences


• Part II: Constitutionalism and the Future of Europe


• 10: Frank Vibert: The case for a Constitution for the Union


• 11: Sophie Boyron: Drafting a Constitution for Europe: a Case of Too Many "Borders"?


• 12: Gráinne de Búrca and Bruno de Witte: The Delimitation of Powers Between the EU and its Member States


• 13: Nanette Neuwahl and Steven Wheatley: The EU and Democracy - Lawful and Legitimate Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States?


• 14: Anthony Arnull: The Rule of Law in the European Union


• Part III: Fundamental Rights and Social Rights


• 15: Jeremy McBride: Protecting Fundamental Rights in Europe: a Legal Analysis


• 16: FG Jacobs: The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights


• 17: Evelyn Ellis: The Principle of Non-Discrimination in the Post-Nice Era


• 18: Lothar Funk: Protecting Fundamental Rights and Social Rights: An Economic Analysis


• Part IV: New Governance and the European Union


• 19: Erika Szyszczak: Social Policy in the Post-Nice Era


• 20: Ronald L Martin: EMU and Enlargement: Twin Threats to European Regional Cohesion?


• 21: Andy W Mullineux and Cillian Ryan: EMU and the Lisbon Goals in an Enlarged European Union


• 22: Daniel Wincott: The Governance White Paper, the Commission, and the Search for Legitimacy


• Part V: Enlargement and the Movement of People


• 23: Christophe Hillion: The Enlargement of the European Union: A Legal Analysis


• 24: Brigid Fowler: Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU Enlargement: Political Perspectives from the Candidate States


• 25: Julian Lonbay: Free Movement of Persons in the European Union: The Legal Framework


• 26: Judy Batt: Managing the EU's New External Border


• 27: Fiorella Dell'Olio: Immigration after Nice: From 'Zero Immigration' to Market Necessity


• Concluding Remarks


• 28: Daniel Wincott: National States, European Union, and Changing Dynamics in the Quest for Legitimacy


• Select Bibliography


• Index