European constitutionalisation has met with scepticism - this book analyses the steps necessary to move to EU's 'Second Constitution'.

Markus Gehring, J.S.D. (Yale), MA (Cantab), LLM (Yale), Dr iur (Hamburg), is a University Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He serves as affiliated Lecturer in European and International Law at Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. He is an Expert in the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Hughes Hall and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Dr. Gehring is also an affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy and a Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG). He edits a book series on Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development with Cambridge University Press and is author of several publications on EU, International and Sustainable Development Law.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; Part II. Demos Obstacles to Constitutionalisation: 2. The importance of Demos; 3. Civitas obstacles to European constitutionalism; 4. Ius obstacles to European constitutionalism; 5. Addressing the legal obstacles to EU constitutionalism; 6. Conclusions.