The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union

This book departs from the 'statist' imagination by suggesting the EU is a federal union of states, or a federation. Dedicated to the constitutional theory of federalism, this book gives the strengths and weaknesses of a federation as a political form, its histories, and current perils for the EU.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Constitutional Nature


• 2: Origins and Telos


• 3: State Transformation and Teleology


• 4: United in Diversity


• 5: Emergency Rule Without a Sovereign


• Conclusion

About the author

Signe Rehling Larsen is a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College at the Univerisity of Oxford. Her research is concerned with constitutional theory and European Union law. She was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the New School for Social Research, Bard College Berlin, and the University of Copenhagen. She has previously held a Max Weber Fellowship in Law at the European University Institute.

Summary

This book departs from the 'statist' imagination by suggesting the EU is a federal union of states, or a federation. Dedicated to the constitutional theory of federalism, this book gives the strengths and weaknesses of a federation as a political form, its histories, and current perils for the EU.

Additional text

Larsen's book is an important contribution to the evergreen debate on the constitutional origins and nature of the European Union...this book's most lasting academic contribution is to equip its readers with a clear, non-statist federal lens, through which they may (re-)examine and better understand the manifold contestations of legal and political authority in the Union.

Product details

• Authors: Signe Rehling Larsen, Signe Rehling (Fellow By Examination Larsen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780198859260
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885926-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Constitutional, Political structure & processes, EU (European Union), International institutions, Political structure and processes, EU & European institutions, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general