The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution

The Draft European Constitution was arguably both an attempt to constitutionalise the Union, re-framing that project in the language of the state, and an attempt to stretch the boundaries of constitutionalism itself, re-imagining that concept to accommodate the sui generis European Union. The (partial) failure of this project is the subject of this collection of essays. The collection brings together leading EU constitutional scholars to consider, with the benefit of hindsight, the purportedly constitutional character of the proposed Constitutional Treaty, the reasons for its rejection by voters in France and the Netherlands, the ongoing implications of this episode for the European project, and the lessons it teaches us about what constitutionalism really means.>

About the author

NW Barber is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Oxford.Maria Cahill is Lecturer in Law at the University College Cork.Richard Ekins is Associate Professor of Law, University of Oxford.

Product details

• Authors: NW Barber, Maria Cahill, Richard Ekins
• Assisted by: NW Barber (Editor), Maria Cahill (Editor), Richard Ekins (Editor), Ekins Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2020
• EAN: 9781509945238
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-4523-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Europe, LAW / International, International Law, EU (European Union), Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general