Includes bibliography and index.

Contents:Part 1 -- Introducing the European union and its constitutional framework -- Studying the law of the European union -- Evolving from community to union -- The unfinished union: The treaty of maastricht and beyond -- Part 11 -- The institutional and constitutional framework o the EU -- The evolving EU constitutional framework -- Part 111 -- The European union and its institutions at work -- The legal and constitutional dimensions of policy making in the European union -- Legislative, administrative and budgetary procedures -- The implementation and enforcement of EU law --Part IV -- Values and principles in the European union constitutional framework -- Fundamental rights and general principles of law -- Citizenship and the European union -- Part IV -- The EU legal order and the national legal orders -- Article 234 EC- The organic connection between national courts and the court of justice -- EU law and the legal systems of the member states -- The National dimension: Domestic remedies for breach of EC law and national reactions to the challenge -- Part VI -- The judicial control of the EU institutions -- Introduction to the judicial control of the EU institutions -- Judicial review of the acts of the institutions -- Judicial control of failure to act -- Non-contractual liability and compensation for loss caused by the EU.