This volume explores the main areas of legal development under the so-called ''Area of Freedom Security and Justice (AFSJ) ''which was introduced into European law under the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1997. It examines the main subject-matter of the new AFSJ: migration family reunion asylum police co-operation and co-operation in matters of criminal law and criminal procedure and includes discussion of the future of the AFSJ against the background of the current drafting of a first Constitution for the European Union.