Principles of European Constitutional Law: Second Revised Edition (Modern Studies in European Law) - Hardcover

Bloomsbury

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841138223 ISBN 13: 9781841138220

Publisher: Hart/Beck, 2009

Synopsis

For the time being, the political project of basing the European Union on a document entitled 'Constitution' has failed. The second, revised and enlarged edition of this volume retains its title nonetheless. Building on a scholarly rather than black-letter law account, it shows European constitutional law as it looks following the Treaty of Lisbon, with the EU's foundational treaties mandating the exercise of public authority, establishing a hierarchy of norms and legitimising legal acts, providing for citizenship, and granting fundamental rights. In this way the treaties shape the relations between legal orders, between public interest regulation and market economy, and between law and politics. The contributions demonstrate in detail how a constitutional approach furthers understanding of the core issues of EU law, how it offers theoretical and doctrinal insights, and how it adds critical perspective.

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Review:

...should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get a holistic perspective of the academic debate on Europe's constitutional foundations...It is impossible to present the richness of thought contained in the 833 pages of the book in a short review. --Common Market Law Review

...an enduring scholarly work, which gives an English-speaking audience important, and overdue, access to the long-standing and forever-vigorous traditions of (European) constitutional law... unhesitatingly recommend[ed]. --European Law Journal

...real scholarship in the profound sense of the word... --K Lenaerts, Professor of European Law, Leuven

Synopsis:

The historic attempt to adopt a Constitution for Europe and its eventual rejection by the electorates of France and the Netherlands led to a renewed and impassioned debate about the future of the EU. Now, with the adoption of the Reform Treaty, the debate about the constitutional architecture of Europe is once again in the full public gaze. More than at any time in the past, Europe is engaged in a process of constitutionalisation which will shape its powers and activities for a generation.Following the warm critical reception given to the first edition of this work, the same editors and contributors have embarked on a second edition which once again presents European constitutional law not merely as a project but as binding law, law which establishes public power, legitimates legal acts, provides for citizenship, protects fundamental rights, and regulates the relationships among legal orders as well as between law and politics. This, then, is European constitutional law both as it presently stands and as it will look following the Reform Treaty.

The contributions present its theoretical and doctrinal fundamentals from the perspective of German-speaking scholarship, reflecting the state of modern research and methodology, illuminating legal doctrines and assumptions, and identifying the future research agenda.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hart/Beck
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1841138223
• ISBN 13: 9781841138220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 856
• Editor: Armin Von Bogdandy, Jurgen Bast