First published 2021.

" Oxford European union law library; General editor: Robert Schütze, Professor of European and Global Law, Durham Law School and co-director, Global Policy Institute, Durham Law School: Piet Eeckhout, professor of EU law and dean of the Faculty of Laws, UCL; academic director of the European Institute” -- [page 1].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"The book is a comprehensive textbook of EU constitutional law, setting out the structure, values, procedures, and policies of the European Union. It is a first point of reference for issues of EU constitutional law. The book encompasses six major parts. It contains an extensive analysis of the key constitutional principles governing the exercise of competences by the Union and the balance of power between the Union and its Member States, followed by an in-depth anaylsis of EU citizenship and the four freedoms, followed by an overview of the main internal and external policy domains. The third part addresses the role and workings of the various institutions (European Council, Council, European Parliament, Commission, European Court of Justice, and European Central Bank), the position of the Member States of the Union, and various other institutional matters. Part four explores the various decision-making processes, addressing not only the legislative and executive decision-making, but also the budget, CFSP, and external action. The fifth part looks at the legal instruments and the position of EU law in the EU and national legal orders, with an attention to the key principles of primary and direct effect, and the role of fundamental rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The final part sets out the complete and coherent system of judicial protection in the European Union, offering an overview of the various courses of action before the EU courts and in the national legal orders to enforce EU law or to obtain judicial protection" -- back cover.