National constitutional identity and European integration
By: Alejandro Saiz Arnaiz and Carina Alcoberro Llivina (eds.).
Series: Law and cosmopolitan values -- 4.; Law and cosmopolitan values -- 4.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781780681603
Subjects: Sovereignty; Constitutional law; Economic integration
Description: "'National constitutional identity' has become the new 'buzz word' in European constitutionalism over the past few years. Much has been written about the concept involving the Member States' national constitutional identities: it has been welcomed for (finally) accommodating constitutional particularities in EU law, demonised for potentially disintegrating the EU, and wielded as a 'sword' by certain constitutional courts. Scholars, judges and advocates general have rendered the concept currently so fashionable and yet so ambivalent that an in-depth analysis putting some order into the intense debate over constitutional identity is warranted. This collection brings together a series of contributions from the perspective of both scholars and judges in order to shed some light into the dark corners of constitutional identity. To this end a threefold approach has been followed: a conceptual or philosophical approach, an approach based on EU law, and an analysis of the case-law of several European courts"--provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.