...full of suggestive thoughts...extremely informative. Agustin Jose Menendez Political Studies January 2005 Public law scholarship seems blessed at the moment with a raft of rather good edited collections...This new collection...makes a good case for being the pick of the crop...has an uncommon coherence of purpose, and displays throughout a commitment to rigorous and thought-provoking scholarship...this book is necessary reading for all thinking public lawyers...it approaches its chosen topic with a rare focus and intensity. Thomas Poole, University of Nottingham Public Law ...a landmark in the fast-growing field of philosophy of European law. Samantha Besson International Journal of Constitutional Law January 2005 [a] splendid symposium on Sovereignty in Transitionthis is a work that brings together some distinguished legal theorists, constitutional theorists, political theorists, experts in international law and international relations, a theologian and constitutionalists from a wide variety of European legal orders, including that of the European union itself[whose] fertile minds and wide scholarship almost inevitably facilitate proof of my point about sovereignty as a cluster concept and as a contested conceptbut there is much more to this important collection of essays than a short review essay can reveal. I shall go on reading this book Neil MacCormick European Law Review June 2004 ...one will find..a set of papers by a diverse group of respected academics that are well researched. Michael Rodney, London South Bank University The Law Teacher February 2005