EU Constitutional Law

Koen Lenaerts, President; Professor of European Law, Court of Justice of the European Union; KU Leuven,Piet Van Nuffel, Professor of European Law, Institute for European Law, KU Leuven

Koen Lenaerts is President of the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor of European Law at KU Leuven. He has been Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Professor at the College of Europe, member of the Brussels Bar, Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, and Judge and Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Piet Van Nuffel is a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission and Associate Professor of European Law at KU Leuven. He has held various posts within the European Commission and the Court of Justice and General Court of the European Union and has been a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Natolin).

Tim Corthaut is an auditor in the Belgian Council of State (legislative action). He is Associate Professor of European Public Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), and Visiting Professor of European Law at Universitat Wien (Austria).

Part I Constituting the European Union
1. The Development from European Communities to European Union
2. The Treaty of Lisbon and the Current Treaties
3. Amendment of the Treaties
4. Accession to and Withdrawal from the European Union
Part II Competences of the European Union
5. Values, Objectives, and Principles Governing the Union Competences
6. Citizenship of the Union
7. The Internal Market
8. The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice
9. Other Areas of Union Policy
10. External Action of the Union
11. Limitations and Exceptions to the Application of the Treaties
Part III Institutional Actors of the European Union
12. The Political Institutions of the Union
13. Other Institutions and Bodies of the Union
14. The Union as an International Organization
15. The Member States of the Union
16. The Relationship between the Institutional Actors
Part IV Decision-Making in the European Union
17. The Legislative Procedures
18. The Implementation of Union Legislation
19. CFSP Decision-Making
20. The Budgetary Procedures
21. The Procedure for Concluding International Agreements
22. Decision-Making Restricted to Particular Member States
Part V Legal Instruments of the European Union
23. Union Law and its Effects in the National Legal Orders
24. The Treaties: Primary Union Law
25. Fundamental Rights and General Principles of Union Law
26. International Law
27. Acts Adopted by the Institutions and Bodies of the Union
28. Other Sources of Union Law
Part VI Judicial Protection in the European Union
29. Judicial Protection vis-a-vis Member States and Private Parties
30. Judicial Protection vis-a-vis the Institutions and Bodies of the Union