Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 EU Enlargement and Democracy in New Member States

Chapter 3 The Eastern EU Enlargement and the Janus-headed Nature of the Constitutional Treaty

Chapter 4 A Problem of their Own, Solutions of their Own: CEE Jurisdictions and the Problems of Lustration and Retroactivity

Chapter 5 Citizens and Foreigners in the Enlarged Europe

Chapter 6 Sub-National Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Transition and Europeanization

Chapter 7 The Copenhagen Criteria and the Evolution of Popular Consent to EU Norms: From Legality to Normative Justifiability in Poland and the Czech Republic

Chapter 8 Becoming “Europeans”: The Impact of EU “Constitutionalism” on Post-Communist Pre-Modernity

Chapter 9 Happy Returns to Europe? The Union’s Identity, Constitution-Making, and its Impact on the Central European Accession States

Chapter 10 An Evolutionary Approach to the Constitutionalism of an Enlarged EU: Why will Cognitive and Cultural Boundaries Matter?

Chapter 12 Europeanization Through Judicial Activism? The Hungarian Constitutional Court’s Legitimacy and the “Return to Europe”

Chapter 13 Barbarians ante portas or the Post-Communist Rule of Law in Post-Democratic European Union

Chapter 14 Transformation and Integration of Legal Cultures and Discourses—Poland

Chapter 15 EU Enlargement and the Constitutional Principle of Judicial Independence

Chapter 16 Post-Communist Legal Orders and the Roma: Some Implications for EU Enlargement

Chapter 17 A Europe of Variable Geometry: Still a Winning Model?

Chapter 18 Conclusions: The Adhesion of New Member States to the European Union and the European Constitution