Includes bibliographical references and index.

Emancipation through law? / Floris de Witte -- Alienation, despair and social freedom / Alexander Somek -- The subjectification of the citizen in European public law / Marco Dani -- The persona of EU law / Damian Chalmers -- Ambiguities of personhood, citizenship, migration and fundamental rights in EU law / Daniel Thym -- Neo-medieval permutations of personhood in the European Union / Dimitry Kochenov -- The "enlisted terrorist" : institutionalising personhood in EU law / Charlotte Beaucillon -- The integrated person in EU law / Ségolène des Places -- The european individual as part of collective entities (market, family, society) / Loïc Azoulai -- Union citizenship, social integration and crime : duties through crime / Stephen Coutts -- The Roma population : a borderline case / Sophie Robin-Olivier -- Human embryos as persons in EU law? / Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez -- Civil registration through the prism of gender : revealing discriminations / Anne-Marie Leroyer -- The legal subject, the social class and identity-based rights / Hans-W Micklitz -- A family status for the European citizen? / Etienne Pataut.