The worlds of European constitutionalism

The worlds of European constitutionalism [electronic resource] / edited by Grainne de Burca, J. H. H. Weiler. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - vi, 348 p. - Contemporary European politics . - Contemporary European politics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The European Union as an international legal experiment / Bruno De Witte -- The place of European law / Neil Walker -- The ECJ and the international legal order: a re-evaluation / Grainne de Burca -- Local, global and plural constitutionalism: Europe meets the world / Daniel Halberstam -- The case for pluralism in postnational law / Nico Krisch.

"The issue of constitutional authority, and more particularly the plurality of claims to legal and constitutional authority, has been a dominant theme of European Union legal scholarship in recent years. The resonance of the topic is evident in many of the major EU developments of the past decade: the momentous eastwards enlargement, the gambit of the un-ratified Constitutional Treaty; the growing number of national constitutional court challenges to EU authority claims; the likely EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights; and finally the rulings of the European Court of Justice on the relationship of EU law to the international legal order"--


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781139157308 (electronic bk.)




Constitutional law--European Union countries.


Electronic books.

KJE4445 / .W67 2012

342.24