Foreword Koen Lenaerts; Foreword Mark A. Pollack; 1. Introduction and overview Elaine Fahey and Deirdre Curtin; Part I. Institutionalisation and Transatlantic Relations from a Legal Perspective: 2. The US Supreme Court and highest courts in Europe: the nature and impact of a transatlantic judicial dialogue Elaine Mak; 3. The European Parliament and EU-US relations: revamping institutional cooperation? Davor Jancic; 4. Transatlantic adjudication techniques: the commerce clause and the EU's internal market harmonisation clause in perspective José Antonio Gutierrez-Fons; 5. A 'bottom-up' perspective on EU-US cooperation: the role and potential of sub-national and sub-state authorities Josephine van Zeben; Part II. Rule Making between the EU and US: 6. The use of law in transatlantic relations: questions of form and characterisation Elaine Fahey; 7. Transatlantic regulatory cooperation in trade: objectives, challenges and instruments for economic governance Tamara Takács; 8. Addressing transatlantic regulatory barriers: can the US and the EU create an effective equivalency instrument? Jim Matthis; 9. A postnational marketplace: negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Marija Bartl and Elaine Fahey; Part III. Security and Transatlantic Relations: 10. Transatlantic relations and security – reflections from a politician, practitioner and litigator Sophie in 't Veld; 11. Perspectives from politics on law: obstacles to transatlantic legal cooperation in the 'war on terror' Wyn Rees; 12. Transatlantic counter-terrorism agreements on the transfer of personal data: a test for democratic accountability in the EU Juan Santos Vara; 13. Transatlantic counter-terrorism cooperation and European values: the elusive quest for coherence Valsamis Mitsilegas.