The autonomy of EU law is governed by two different, albeit intertwined, dynamics. Negatively, autonomy seeks to defi ne what EU law is not, i.e it is not ordinary international law. Positively, autonomy seeks to define what EU law is, i.e. an autonomous legal order that has the capacity to operate as a self-sufficient system of norms. That said, it is submitted that the concept of autonomy of EU law in no way conveys the message th...