Christian Joerges

Andreas Fischer-Lescano

Arndt Wonka

Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik (ZERP) an der Universität Bremen

Legal and Political-science Perspectives

The German Constitutional Court's Lisbon Ruling

Markus Jachtenfuchs

Damian Chalmers

This volume argues that the crisis of the European Union is not merely a fiscal crisis but reveals and amplifies deeper flaws in the structure of the EU itself. It is a multidimensional crisis of the economic, legal and political cornerstones of European integration and marks the end of the technocratic mode of integration which has been dominant since the 1950s. The EU has a weak political and administrative centre, relies excessively on governance by law, is challenged by increasing heterogeneity and displays increasingly interlocked levels of government. During the crisis, it has become more and more asymmetrical and has intervened massively in domestic economic and legal systems. A team of economists, lawyers, philosophers and political scientists analyze these deeper dimensions of the European crisis from a broader theoretical perspective with a view towards contributing to a better understanding and shaping the trajectory of the EU.

Adjusting to European Diversity

The End of the Eurocrats' Dream

Neil Walker

Europa Ein Großraum?

Josef Hien

Ordoliberalism is a theoretical and cultural tradition of significant societal and political impact in post-war Germany. For a long time the theory was only known outside Germany by a handful of experts, but ordoliberalism has now moved centre stage after the advent of the financial crisis, and has become widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisis politics. In this collection, the contributors engage in a multi-faceted exploration of the conceptual history of ordoliberalism, the premises of its founding fathers in law and economics, its religious underpinnings, the debates over its theoretical assumptions and political commitments, and its formative vision of societal ordering based upon a synthesis of economic theories and legal concepts. The renewal of that vision through the ordoliberal conceptualisation of the European integration project, the challenges of the current European crisis, and the divergent perceptions of ordoliberalism within Germany and by its northern and southern EU neighbours, are a common concern of all these endeavours. They unfold interdisciplinary affinities and misunderstandings, cultural predispositions and prejudices, and political preferences and cleavages. By examining European traditions through the lens of ordoliberalism, the book illustrates the diversity of European economic cultures, and the difficulty of transnational political exchanges, in a time of European crisis.

Ordoliberalism, Law and the Rule of Economics

Navraj Singh Ghaleigh

This book, written by leading scholars, presents theoretical, historical and legal inquiries into the legacy of National Socialism and Fascism.

The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism Over Europe and Its Legal Traditions

Darker Legacies of Law in Europe

Ulrich K. Preuß

Matthias Mahlmann

"Schmerzliche Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit" und der Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung Europas

Florian Rödl

Erik Oddvar Eriksen

To many, the rejections of the Constitutional Treaty by Dutch and French voters in 2005 came as a shock. However, given the many tensions and the many unresolved issues it was quite unsurprising. The challenges facing the Constitutional debate go to the core of the European integration process as they have to do with the terms on which to establish a post-national political order. This book deals with four themes which make up the main sources of the ‘constitutional crisis’: The problem of the rule of law in a context of governance beyond the nation state The problem of the social deficit of the Union The problem of identity and collective memories The problem of institutionalizing post-national democracy. These themes constitute the unfinished agenda of the European integration process. Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union is based on the efforts of a collection of top scholars in the fields of Law, Political Science, Sociology and Economics, and will appeal to students and scholars of political science, the European Union and European studies.

The unsettled political order of Europe

Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union

Renaud Dehousse

Exploring the constitutional and the administrative law dimensions of the developing European market governance, this volume considers the changes which have occurred from the perspective of both legal and social theory.

Good Governance in Europe's Integrated Market

Christian Joerges

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