Product details
- Categories: Constitutional and Institutional Law
- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Collection: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
- ISBN: 9781107087095
- Publication Date: 01/07/2015
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 402
- Language: English
Summary
European Constitutionalism redraws the perimeters in the debate on the nature of the European constitution. Offering a fresh approach to both doctrinal and theoretical issues, this book discusses general characteristics of the European constitution under the headings of relationality, perspectivism and discursiveness, and contains forays to sectoral constitutionalization in the micro- and macroeconomic, social and security dimensions. European constitutionalism must be examined in its interaction with Member State constitutionalism, which plays an essential role in channelling democratic legitimacy to the EU. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.
- Approaches the European constitution as a multidimensional process of constitutionalization
- Examines European constitutionalism in interaction with Member State constitutionalism
- Defends a transnational portrayal of European law and polity and provides a way out of the problems of an international law, federal or administrative law understanding
Table of contents
Prologue
Part I. General Characteristics:
1. Relationality
2. Interlude: the framing juridical constitution
3. Perspectivism
4. Discursiveness
Part II. Sectoral Constitutionalization:
5. The triumph of the microeconomic constitution
6. Mutation of the Macroeconomic Constitution
7. The European social constitution: between solidarity and access justice
8. The insecure security constitution
Epilogue.