European Constitutionalism

This book provides a new understanding of the European constitution as a multidimensional process of constitutionalization, constantly interacting with Member State constitutions.

List 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.

About the author

Kaarlo Tuori is Professor of Jurisprudence and Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki. He is formerly vice president of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and serves as a consulting expert on the Constitutional Law Committee at the Finnish Parliament.

Summary

The book explains why it is warranted to speak of the European constitution even after the debacle of the EU Constitutional Treaty. It explains how European constitutionalism seeks to achieve its legitimating task through its interaction with national constitutionalism.

Product details

• Authors: Kaarlo Tuori, Kaarlo (University of Helsinki) Tuori, Tuori Kaarlo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107087095
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08709-5
• No. of pages: 418
• Series: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / International, Politics & government, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general