Provides a look at the development in Community and Union law. This book explores origins, patterns, and implications from the initial concept of market access, laws relating to individual rights, and complexities as the bottom-up emergence of constitutional principles. It has 17 insightful essays on various related events, principles, and issues.

This concentrated summary of the most important issues in forty years of legal developments reveals both the lasting triumphs along the way and the gaps that require urgent attention if the legitimacy of the Union is not to be impaired. Participants in European law and government, from citizens and students to the highest levels of policy making, will find here an invaluable resource for the future and much food for thought. These articles were first presented at a conference held at the end of 2003 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Common Market Law Review, and were originally published in a special issue of the "Review".