10 Colum. J. Eur. L. 173 (2004) Stephen C. Sieberson, Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. The author has previously taught at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, at the Faculty of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and at the Faculty of Law, University of the Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao. Throughout its first half-century the European Union has been the subject of an ongoing and vigorous discussion as to its form. For a 17-month period beginning on February 26, 2002, that discussion was carried out in the grandest manner possible – a constitutional convention. […]