Dieter Grimm

Europa ja - aber welches? Zur Verfassung der europäischen Demokratie

Die Zukunft der Verfassung

Christoph Möllers

Alexandra Kemmerer

Der fünfte Band in der Reihe "Recht im Kontext" gibt eine kontextbezogene Analyse der Menschenwürde und ihrer rechtlichen und politischen Implikationen. Der Band ist das Ergebnis zweier Konferenzen am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), die einen Diskussionsrahmen geschaffen und eine Debatte zwischen Wissenschaftlern aus mehreren Ländern und verschiedenen Disziplinen über das Konzept der Menschenwürde angeregt haben. Die Beiträge in dem Band analysieren und bewerten die Menschenwürdekonzeption in juristischer Hinsicht und in akademischer Reflexion neu. Als kontextuelles Unterfangen nimmt der Band eine genuin rechtswissenschaftliche Perspektive ein und verbindet aktuelle Debatten der deutschen, europäischen und US-amerikanischen Rechtswissenschaft mit den Diskussionen aus anderen Disziplinen und aus anderen Regionen der Welt. Mit Beiträgen von Rehan Abeyratne; Marion Albers; Ino Augsberg; Jochen von Bernstorff; Roger Brownsword; Matthildi Chatzipanagiotou; Ingolf Dalferth; David Dyzenhaus; Morag Goodwin; Christoph Goos; Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer and Christoph Möllers; Susannah Heschel; Eric Hilgendorf; Tatjana Hörnle; Stefan Huster; Nora Markard; Christopher McCrudden; Russell Miller; Conor O'Mahoney; Stephan Schaede; Alexander Somek; Nils Teifke; Tim Wihl.

Explorations of a Contested Concept

Human Dignity in Context

Dieter Grimm is one of Germany's foremost scholars of constitutional law and theory with a high international reputation and an exceptional career. In this biographical interview, Grimm gives insights into his experience and shares background information that cannot be found in legal textbooks or treatises.

Advocate of the Constitution

Europe is in crisis. With rising unrest among citizens of EU member states exemplified by the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the growing popularity of anti-EU political parties, Dieter Grimm presents the argument that Europe has to change its method of further integration or risks failure.This book, containing essays many of which have not been published in the English language to date, explores how the EU has become over-constitutionalized. Grimm argues that this has left the EU with a democratic deficit leading to the alienation of citizens. This book highlights Europe's democracy problem. The most prominent argument running throughout is that the EU and its decision-making processes have become over-constitutionalized. This is due to the constitutionalization ?of European treaties, which has occurred by raising them to the eminence ofa constitution as a result of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice. However, the treaties contain provisions that would be ordinary law in member states. The fact that they enjoy constitutional status in Europe detaches them from the democratic processes in the member states and the EUitself, and contributes to the growing independence of the EU's executive and judicial institutions. The book also asserts that currently the EU does not have enough sources of legitimation to uphold itself, surviving solely on the legitimation provided by member states. One popular remedy is the suggestion of "parliamentarization" of the EU, giving the European Parliament the powers typicallypossessed by national parliaments as a means of heightening its legitimation. This is criticized by Grimm as expanding the Parliament's powers would not change the effects of over-constiutionalization as the Parliament is inferior to the constitution. In order to reduce the EU's legitimacy deficit, Grimm makes several recommendations. The repoliticization of the decision-making processes, which can be achieved by reducing treaties to the capacity necessary for their constitutional function; the reinvigoration of European Parliament elections, byhaving "Europeanized" parties to increase engagement with European society and give voters the opportunity to more immediately influence European politics; and a new division of powers based on subject matter to restrain European expansionism, reserving particular areas of policy to theresponsibility of member states even if this affects the common market.

The Constitution of European Democracy

Heinz Mohnhaupt

storia di un concetto dall'Antichità a oggi

Costituzione

Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus

Das Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study gilt international als eines der erfolgreichsten seiner Art. Im Herbst 2006 feiert es sein 25-jähriges Bestehen. Dieses Jubiläum ist Anlass für ein Resumé: Namhafte deutsche und ausländische Autoren, die zumeist Fellows des Wissenschaftskollegs waren, beschreiben dessen Entwicklung sowie die Erfahrungen auf verschiedenen Wissensfeldern.

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