Making sense of European Union law

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL EUROPE -- 1. Questioning the EU's 'Principled Openness' to International Law: An Examination of the Court's Reception of the Aarhus Convention and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- I. Introduction -- II. EU Accession to International Agreements -- III. The Example of the UN Convention onthe Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- IV. The Example of the Aarhus Convention -- V. Ways Forward: How to Ensure Respectfor Environmental and Human Rights Agreements Ratified by the EU in the Face of Obstacles Erectedby the CJEU? -- VI. Conclusion -- 2. Mixed Agreements and Constitutional Gaps -- I. Constitutional Overload and Mixed Agreements -- II. Mixed Agreements and the Council's Political Choice -- III. Managing Member State Participation in Mixed Agreements -- 3. The European Union and National Constitutional Values -- I. Introduction -- II. Community Law and National Constitutional Values Anno 1991 -- III. Constitutional Tensions and Genuine Constitutional Value Conflicts -- IV. Constitutional Values Conflicts: Is Primacy Absolute? -- V. Genuine Conflicts: Any Solutions? -- VI. National Identity Protected in Article 4(2) TEU -- VII. The Values of the Union as the Identity of the Union -- VIII. Conclusion -- PART II: DIFFERENTIATED EUROPE -- 4. Differentiation and Flexibility in EU Law -- I. Introduction -- II. Differentiated Integration from Rome to Lisbon: Accommodating Diversity -- III. Definition and Modes of Differentiated Integration and Flexibility -- IV. The Future of Differentiation -- 5. Recomposing the EU: Flying Together Beyond Turbulence -- I. Recomposing Bruno -- II. Decimation of Opt-Outs -- III. Decline of Multi-Speed Europe -- IV. Disuse of International Agreements Inter Se.