This volume of IUSEF is the result of the 8th National Conference for Norwegian Ph.D.-researchers, held in Lillehammer the autumn of 1994. The conference was organized by the Research Committee at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. The papers presented under the heading "State and Nation" are published in this volume: Joseph H.H. Weiler, Harvard, Florence: Limits to Growth? On the Law and Politics of the European Union's Jurisdictional Limits. Attracata Ingram, Dublin: Separating State and Nation. Joxerramon Bengoetxea, Legal Secretary at the European Court of Justice: The State on the Wane: European Union, Nation-States and Stateless Nations. Jeremy Lever, Q.C., London: The Application of European Community Law in English Courts