Includes index.

General introduction : paradoxes of European legal integration / Mikael Rask Madsen, Anne Lise Kjaer, Helle Krunke, Hanne Petersen -- Introduction : European law as a process between constitutionalization and democratization / Helle Krunke -- The convention and its constitution : all a great mistake? / Neil MacCormick -- When 'no' means 'yes' : a constitution for Europe and the limits of ignorance / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- A legal mission : the emergence of a European 'rationalized' natural law / Henning Koch -- Introduction : An ever closer union - an ever larger market : lawyers and the transnational construction of European institutions and markets / Mikael Rask Madsen -- Re-structuring states by exporting law : American law firms and the genesis of a European legal market / Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth -- (Re)Constructing the boundaries of the market : EU law and institutions analyzed through the lens of discontinuity / Inger-Johanne Sand -- Transnational statecraft : legal entrepreneurs, the European field of power, and the genesis of the European constitution / Antonin Cohen.

How to become a transnational elite : lawyer's politics at the genesis of the European communities (1950-1970) / Antoine Vauchez -- Introduction : Language as barrier and carrier of European legal integration / Anne Lise Kjaer -- Surface law / William Twining -- Word/world : (of primordial issues for comparative legal studies) / Pierre Legrand -- Towards a common European legal thinking : a dialogic challenge / Edda Weigand -- European integration and legal communication / Heikki Mattila -- Introduction : Exceptionalism and normalization : ambituity and honour in European integration processes / Hanne Petersen -- Adjustment or reluctance? Scandinavian exceptionalism in legal cultures / Kjell-Åke Modéer -- Normalizing time : European integration and court delays in Italy / David Nelken -- Henrik Zahle (1943-2006) / Ditlev Tamm.