The Competence Question in the (Con)Federal European Union

Sacha Garben is Professor of EU Law at the Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe. She is an official in the European Commission, currently on leave to work at the College of Europe full time. She is also a replacement Judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. Sacha Garben obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in 2010, winning the Jacqueline Suter Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in European Law 20092011. She has worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union and at the London School of Economics.

• 1: The Competence Question in the (Con)Federal European Union 2: From Rome to Maastricht: The Displacement of Conferral, the Creeping of Competence, and the 'Constitutionalisation' of Community Law 3: Renegotiating Competence, Conferral, and 'Constitutionalisation' in the Maastricht Decade 4: From the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe to the Lisbon Treaty: The Fumbled Attempt to Overcome Conferral and the Continuation of 'Constitutionalisation by Stealth' 5: From the Lisbon Treaty to Brexit: Competence, Conferral, and 'Constitutionalisation' in Crisis 6: The Post-Brexit EU Legal Order: Constitutional Reorientation and Democratic Re-Imagination in the Face of Identity Struggles 7: Uncertainty, Unsettlement, and the Way to Reach a Conclusion on the Competence Question in the (Con)Federal European Union

This book explores how the EU's rules on competence have developed, and examines both the political and the constitutional consequences of the chosen pattern. The author possesses an admirable track record in this field and so it is a pleasure to see her assemble her thoughts in the form of a book. And it is a pleasure, as well as an education, to read it too. This is proper bold scholarship.