*** PHILIPPE MANIN: Droit constitutionnel de l'Union européenne. Editions Pedone (13 rue Soufflot, Paris). "Etudes internationales" series, No. 6. 2004, 554 pp, €32. ISBN 2-233-00456-6.
This is a handbook aimed primarily at law students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, which has become such an authority that it is more than simply the sixth in a series. It is a complete re-working, in fact, placing its bets on the future.
The title gives the game away ('The European Union's...