Born of a series of research seminars, supported by the ESRC and the European Law Journal, this book tackles the most pressing issue raised by intensified European integration: the demise of sovereign states and the design of theoretical frameworks within which issues of post-national democracy and legal legitimacy might be considered.

Zenon Bankowski is Professor of Legal Theory at the Centre for Law and Society, School of Law, Edinburgh University. He studied at Dundee and Glasgow Universities and taught at Cardiff University before he came to Edinburgh. He has edited Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning (with I. White, U. Hahn. 1995) and Law and Power (with K. Tuori and J. Uusitalo, Deborah Charles, 1997) and is the co-author of Beyond Fear: Vision, Hope and Generosity, St. Andrew's Press 1998 (with A. Morton, G. Blount, S. Barron, J. Hughes).

Andrew Scott is Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in the Economics of the European Union at the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in the area of European integration, and particularly on the topics of monetary union, regional policy and the EU governance issue. He was formerly Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies.