BOOK: Guillaume GRÉGOIRE & Xavier MINY (Eds.), The Idea of Economic Constitution in Europe Genealogy and Overview (Leiden: Brill, 2022). ISBN: 978-90-04-51933-6, € 188.00

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ABOUT THE BOOK 

Series: Legal History Library, Volume: 61

Behind the controversies that have marked the history of the idea of Economic Constitution emerges the highly political issue of the room for manoeuvre left to public authorities in the economic sphere. The notion thus encapsulates a fundamental tension: between democracy and rule of law, which model of legal ordering of the economy should prevail?

From physiocrats to neo-liberals, from the Weimar Republic to European integration, from national constitutions to Global Governance, this collective book invites us to explore the genealogy of the controversial concept of Economic Constitution. The result of this interdisciplinary dialogue is a comprehensive reflection on the legal and political issues at stake in the current constitutionalization of the market order in Europe.

Contributors are: Philippe Steiner, Guillaume Grégoire, Hugues Rabault, Peter C. Caldwell, Thomas Biebricher, Werner Bonefeld, Serge Audier, Vincent Valentin, Pieter van Cleynenbreugel, Xavier Miny, Frédéric Marty, Claire Mongouachon, Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Francesco Martucci, Michael Wilkinson, Hjalte Lokdam, Susanna Maria Cafaro, Peter Lindseth, Cristina Fasone, Pierre Nihoul, François Colly, Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Tony Prosser, Damien Piron, Mahmoud Mohamed Salah, Stephen Gill, Thibault Biscahie, Sebastien Adalid, and Christian Joerges.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Guillaume Grégoire is pursuing a doctoral research in Economic Law and Legal Theory at the Université de Liège. He was invited as visiting scholar at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas and at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of Munich. He is the author of L’économie de Karlsruhe. L’intégration européenne à l’épreuve du juge constitutionnel allemand (CRISP, 2021).

Xavier Miny is pursuing a doctoral research in public law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Liege. He was awarded a FRESH grant from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) from 2018 to 2021. He is the co-author of the handbook Introduction au droit public. Considérations générales et particularités belges (Larcier, 2021).

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