A notable trend in recent scholarship on the nature of the European Union and its democratic legitimacy focuses on the concept of legislation and its employment within the European Community s legal system. In this remarkable work of synthesis, Alexander T rk exposes and elucidates the underlying uncertainty as to the meaning of the term, and even its legitimate use, within the Community s legal order. He arrives at a clear evaluation of the extent to which the concept of legislation can be applied in the EC through a comparative analysis of the British, French, and German constitutional systems, and proceeds to reveal and highlight aspects of the concept of legislation derived from this analysis appearing in areas of EC law.