BOOK: Hinnerk WISSMANN (ed.), Europäische Verfassungen 1789-1990 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 585 p., ISBN 978-3-16-164214-2

 

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Die neue Auflage der Textsammlung erscheint als Beitrag zum Verfassungsjahr 2024. Nach 75 Jahren Grundgesetz, das hier in seiner Ursprungsfassung abgedruckt wird, lässt sich erkennen: Freiheit, Demokratie und Rechtsstaat müssen immer wieder neu errungen, verteidigt und bewahrt werden, nach außen wie nach innen. Die hier versammelten historischen Verfassungstexte bezeugen das gemeinsame »Projekt Verfassungsstaat«, das Europa seit Beginn der staatsrechtlichen Moderne geprägt hat. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden deutsche (Reichs- und Landes-)Verfassungen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, die typischerweise für einschlägige Lehrveranstaltungen herangezogen werden. Hinzu kommen (in deutscher Übersetzung) besonders wichtige Verfassungen europäischer Staaten ebenso wie zwischenstaatliche Vertragswerke im Zeitraum bis 1990. Ergänzt wird die Sammlung im Anhang durch die Verfassung der USA und wichtige Texte der vormodernen englischen Rechtstradition. Neu abgedruckt wird die Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10), mit der die amerikanische Bundesverfassung 1789/1791 grundlegende Bürgerrechte aufnahm.

 

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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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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.

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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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BOOK: Mario BERTOLISSI (a cura di), Scritti per Paolo Grossi, Offerti dall'Università di Padova (Torino: Giappichelli, 2019). ISBN: 9788892120464, pp. 512, € 60,00

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The volume Scritti per Paolo Grossi offers a selection of contributions related to the work of Paolo Grossi, influential legal historian and judge of the Italian Constitutional Court.

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Mario Bertolissi è professore ordinario di diritto costituzionale nell’ Università di Padova, avvocato, ha fatto parte del Consiglio Superiore delle finanze e del Consiglio di amministrazione di Equitalia. Vice presidente del Consiglio di Sorveglianza di Intesa San Paolo e Presidente dell’editoriale il Gazzettino. Ha rappresentato la Regione Veneto dinanzi alla Corte costituzionale nei giudizi decisi con le sentenze n. 470/1992, n. 496/2000 e n. 118/2015, che ha dato il via libera al referendum consultivo del 22 ottobre 2017. Autore di monografie e di saggi, per un totale di alcune centinaia. Ha appena pubblicato per la Marsilio Autonomia. Ragioni e prospettive di una riforma necessaria.  

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BOOK: Vera FRITZ, Juges et avocats généraux de la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne (1952–1972). Une approche biographique de l’histoire d’une révolution juridique (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2018). ISBN: 9783465043508, pp. IX-396, € 79,00

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En s’appuyant sur des archives rassemblées dans les six pays fondateurs de l’Union européenne, cet ouvrage propose un regard nouveau sur le "processus de constitutionnalisation" des traités européens lancé dans les années 1960 par la Cour de Justice de l’UE. En mettant en lumière les parcours professionnels et personnels des premiers juges et avocats généraux européens, il étudie les dynamiques qui règnent à l’intérieur de l’institution pendant ses années "révolutionnaires" et s’intéresse aux relations que la juridiction entretient avec les Etats membres. À travers une étude détaillée du processus de sélection des membres de la Cour, il apporte notamment des réponses inédites à la question de savoir si les gouvernements ont tenté de mettre un terme à sa jurisprudence audacieuse.

Drawing on archives gathered in the six founding member states of the European Union, this book offers a new perspective on the "constitutionalization" of the European treaties, which was launched in the 1960s by the Court of Justice of the EU. By highlighting the professional and personal backgrounds of the first European judges and advocates general, its author studies the dynamics which prevailed within the institution during its "revolutionary" years and analyzes the Court’s relationship with the Member States of the European Communities. Through a detailed study of the selection process of the members of the Court, it also provides new answers to the question of whether governments tried to put an end to its bold jurisprudence.

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Vera Fritz is a postdoc researcher/research associate at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History, Université du Luxembourg. 

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BOOK: "The Age of Dignity. Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Europe" by Catherine Dupré

The Age of Dignity. Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Europe, by Catherine Dupré
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Human dignity is one of the most challenging and exciting ideas for lawyers and political philosophers in the twenty-first century. Even though it is rapidly emerging as a core concept across legal systems, and is the first foundational value of the European Union and its overarching human rights commitment under the Lisbon Treaty, human dignity is still little understood and often mistrusted. Based on extensive comparative and cross-disciplinary research, this path-breaking monograph provides an innovative and critical investigation of human dignity's origins, development and above all its potential at the heart of European constitutionalism today. Grounding its analysis in the connections among human dignity, human rights, constitutional law and democracy, this book argues that human dignity's varied and increasing uses point to a deep transformation of European constitutionalism. At its heart are the construction and protection of constitutional time, and the multi-dimensional definition of humanity as human beings, citizens and workers. Anchored in a detailed comparative study of case law, including the two European supranational courts and domestic constitutional courts, especially those of Germany, the UK, France and Hungary, this monograph argues for a new understanding of European constitutionalism as a form of humanism.

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Catherine Dupré is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.