Europe's Constitutional Mosaic

Neil Walker is Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, Jo Shaw is Salvesen Chair of European Institutions and Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory. They are all based at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh.

• 1 IntroductionA Constitutional Mosaic? Exploring the New Frontiers of Europe's ConstitutionalismNeil Walker and Stephen Tierney PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN UNION2 The European Union's Constitutional Mosaic: Big 'C' or Small 'c', Is that the Question? Cormac Mac Amhlaigh3 An Area of Darkness: Three Conceptions of the Relationship Between European Union Law and State Constitutional Law Julio Baquero CruzPART TWO: THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS4 Burying, Not Praising the European Convention on Human Rights: A Provocation Andrew Williams5 Europe's Constitutional Mosaic: Human Rights in the European Legal Space – Utopia, Dystopia, Monotopia or Polytopia? Sionaidh Douglas-ScottPART THREE: THE WIDER EUROPE6 The Constitutional Mosaic Across the Boundaries of the European Union: Citizenship Regimes in the New States of South Eastern Europe Jo Shaw7 The Council of Europe as a Norm Entrepreneur: The Political Strengths of a Weak International Institution Gwendolyn SassePART FOUR: EUROPE BELOW THE STATE8 Recognition as Domination: Constitutionalism, Reciprocity and the Problem of Singularity Hans Lindahl9 Liberal Democracy's Timber is Still Too Straight: The Case of Political Models for Coexistence in Composite States Ferran RequejoPART FIVE: EUROPE AND THE WORLD10 The Constitutionalisation of International Organisations Anne Peters11 The European Union in the Global Constitutional Mosaic Jan KlabbersPART SIX: OTHER CASE STUDIES12 European Criminal Law Under the Developing Constitutional Setting of the European Union Kimmo Nuotio13 The Constitutional Function of Labour Law in the European Union Ruth Dukes

…the volume clearly contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the contributions of a legal pluralist framework in constitutional and global contexts, and as such it has a solid scholarly audience and is most suited for teaching at the graduate level in political science and law.