The European Union places the 'individual' or person, 'at the heart of its activities'. It is a central concept in all of EU economics, politics, society and ethics. The 15 chapters in this innovative edited collection argue that EU law has had a transformative effect on this concept. The collection looks at the mechanisms used when 'constructing the person' in EU law. It goes beyond traditional literature on 'Europe and the Individual', exploring the question of personhood through critical and contextual perspectives. Constructing the Person in EU Law: Rights, Roles, Identities brings together contributions and debates from experts around Europe to this key question.

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Part I: Introduction
Being a Person in the European Union
Loïc Azoulai, Ségolène Barbou des Places and Etienne Pataut
Part II: Potential and Limits of EU Legal Individualism
1. Emancipation Through Law?
Floris de Witte
2. Alienation, Despair and Social Freedom
Alexander Somek
3. The Subjectification of the Citizen in European Public Law
Marco Dani
4. The Persona of EU Law
Damian Chalmers
Part III: Reconstructing Personhood in EU Law
5. Ambiguities of Personhood, Citizenship, Migration and Fundamental Rights in EU Law
Daniel Thym
6. Neo-mediaeval Permutations of Personhood in the European Union
Dimitry Kochenov
7. The 'Enlisted Terrorist': Institutionalising Personhood in EU Law
Charlotte Beaucillon
Part IV: Person and Integration
8. The Integrated Person in EU Law
Ségolène Barbou des Places
9. The European Individual as Part of Collective Entities (Market, Family, Society)
Loïc Azoulai
10. Union Citizenship, Social Integration and Crime: Duties Through Crime
Stephen Coutts
11. The Roma Population: A Borderline Case
Sophie Robin-Olivier
Part V: Personhood, Identity and Status
12. Human Embryos as Persons in EU Law
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez
13. Civil Registration Through the Prism of Gender: Revealing Discriminations
Anne-Marie Leroyer
14. The Legal Subject, Social Class and Identity-based Rights
Hans-W Micklitz
15. A Family Status for the European Citizen?
Etienne Pataut