The worlds of European constitutionalism

"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: t...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: De B�urca, G. (Gr�ainne), Weiler, Joseph, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Contemporary European politics.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:vi, 348 p.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.