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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Principles of European Constitutional Law by Edited by Armin von Bogdandy Edited by Jürgen Bast
For the time being the political project of basing the European Union on a document entitled Constitution has failed. The second revised and enlarged edition of this volume retains its title nonetheless. Building on a scholarly rather than black-letter law account it shows European constitutional law as it looks following the Treaty of Lisbon with the EUs foundational treaties mandating the exercise of public authority establishing a hierarchy of norms and legitimising legal acts providing for citizenship and granting fundamental rights. In this way the treaties shape the relations between legal orders between public interest regulation and market economy and between law and politics. The contributions demonstrate in detail how a constitutional approach furthers understanding of the core issues of EU law how it offers theoretical and doctrinal insights and how it adds critical perspective.From Reviews of the First Edition:.should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get a holistic perspective of the academic debate on Europes constitutional foundations.It is impossible to present the richness of thought contained in the 833 pages of the book in a short review.Common Market Law Reviewan enduring scholarly work which gives an English-speaking audience important and overdue access to the long-standing and forever-vigorous traditions of (European) constitutional law. unhesitatingly recommend[ed].European Law Journal.real scholarship in the profound sense of the word.K Lenaerts Professor of European Law Leuvenshow more