The Transformation of Europe
Twenty-Five Years On

This collection of essays considers the extent to which Joseph Weiler's thinking on the nature of European law holds today.

Miguel Poiares Maduro (Edited by), Marlene Wind (Edited by)

9781107157941, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 September 2017

380 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.4 cm, 0.65 kg

'What is the European construct and how to evaluate its current crisis? This book deserves a place of honor in the debate on the Union. … The authors of this book revisit Joseph Weiler's foundational analysis of the European Union and provide a key to the understanding of successes and failures of this experiment … [whilst also] capturing the essence of the European experiment. This work will likely influence public debate on the crisis of the Union. … A critical re-appraisal of an important book and, in the meantime, a diagnosis of the current crisis of the European Union. … A thoughtful and reasoned book about successes and failures of the European Union.' Sabino Cassese, Former Justice, Italian Constitutional Court

Joseph Weiler's The Transformation of Europe is one of the most influential works in the history of European studies. Twenty-five years after its original publication, this new collection of essays pays tribute to Weiler's legacy by discussing some of the most pressing issues in contemporary European Union law, policy and constitutionalism. The book does not intend to be a simple expression of intellectual esteem for Weiler's seminal work; instead, the collection honours it by critically engaging with some of its assumptions and theses. Overall, it shows how a study of 1991 can still be fundamental to the present and future of the EU, including the challenges of Brexit and Eurozone crises.

Transformation of Europe J. H. H. Weiler
Introduction: the transformation of Europe twenty-five years after Miguel Maduro and Marlene Wind
1. The transformation of Europe revisited: civilising interstatal relations Gráinne de Búrca
2. Disequilibrium and disconnect: on Weiler's (still robust) theory of European transformation Peter L. Lindseth
3. Joseph Weiler and the experience of law Julio Baquero Cruz
4. The transformation of Europe in US legal academia and its legacy in the field of private law Daniela Caruso
5. A European half-life? A retrospective on Joseph Weiler's The Transformation of Europe Neil Walker
6. On the past and future of the transformation of Europe. Law, governance, rights and politics in the EU evolution Gianluigi Palombella
7. Assessing the transformation of Europe: a view from political science R. Daniel Keleman and Alec Stone Sweet
8. The Lisbon Treaty as a response to transformation's democratic skepticism Armin van Bogdandy
9. Joseph Weiler, Eric Stein and the transformation of constitutional law Daniel Halberstam
10. Perils of unity, promise of union Kalypso Nicolaïdis
11. Unity and community: a tale of two monsters and one unanswered question Alexander Somek
12. How transformative is the European project? Türküler Isiksel
13. The transformation of Europe: loyalty lost, democracy lost? Franz C. Mayer
14. The transformation of private law Hans W. Micklitz
15. The transformation of Europe - and of selective exit twenty-five years after Marlene Wind
16. Europe transformed. Exit, voice … and loyalty? Miguel Maduro
17. The transformation of Europe revisited – the things that do not transform J. H. H. Weiler.

Subject Areas: Law [L], Political structures: democracy [JPHV], Political science & theory [JPA]