The worlds of European constitutionalism
By: edited by Gráinne de Búrca and J. H. H. Weiler
Series: Contemporary European politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521192859; 9780521177757
Subjects: Constitutional law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-344) and index.