Principles of European Constitutional Law: Second Revised Edition

857 Pages·2010·4.064 MB·English

by  Armin von Bogdandy, Jurgen Bast

PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
For thetime being, thepolitical projectof basing theEuropeanUnion on a documententitled
‘Constitution’hasfailed.Thesecond,revisedandenlargededitionofthisvolumeretainsitstitle
nonetheless. Building on a scholarly rather than black-letter law account, it shows European
constitutionallawasitpresentlystandsandasitwilllookfollowingtheTreatyofLisbon,with
the EU’s foundational treaties mandating the exercise of public authority, establishing a
hierarchy of norms and legitimising legal acts, providing for citizenship, and granting funda-
mentalrights.In thisway thetreatiesshapetherelationsbetweenlegal orders,betweenpublic
interest regulation and market economy, and between law and politics. The contributions
demonstrateindetailhowaconstitutionalapproachfurthersunderstandingofthecoreissuesof
EU law, how it offers theoretical and doctrinal insights, and how it adds critical perspective.
Armin von Bogdandy is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and
International Law, Heidelberg.
JürgenBastisaseniorresearchfellowattheMaxPlanckInstituteforComparativePublicLaw
and International Law, Heidelberg.
From Reviews of the First Edition
‘. . . should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get a holistic perspective of the
academic debate on Europe’s 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 Review
‘an enduring scholarly work, which gives an English-speaking audience important, and over-
due, 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, Leuven
Principles of European
Constitutional Law
Second Revised Edition
Edited by
Armin von Bogdandy
and
Jürgen Bast
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Preface
The friendly reception of this book’s German as well as English edition has encouraged its
second edition six years after it first appeared. It handles the developments of the subject and
takes up suggestions that arose from the many reviews. This requires considerations that go
beyondthescopeofapreface;thenewintroductiononTheConstitutionalApproachtoEULaw
is dedicated to them.
Atthisplaceitremainstoexpressourgratitudeandappreciations.Thisprojectcontinuesto
be indebted to the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. Again it enabled the authors’ co-operation in a
generous and unbureaucratic manner. The editorial team was headed by Franziska Sucker,
acting jointly with thesigners.It consistedof Victoria Beinert,Nicole Betz, AnuschehFarahat,
FelixHanschmann,MarcJacob,DanielOberhofer,JohannesPötzl,MajaSmrkolj,IngoVenzke,
and Christian Wohlfahrt. Marc Jacob, Grant Van Eaton, and Naila Widmaier have been
proof-reading the draft English versions.
Armin von Bogdandy and Jürgen Bast
Heidelberg, March 2008
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Short Contents
The Constitutional Approach to EU Law 1
Armin von Bogdandy and Jürgen Bast
Part I: Defining the Field of European Constitutional Law 9
1 Founding Principles 11
Armin von Bogdandy
2 Federalism and Democracy 55
Stefan Oeter
3 National Constitutional Law Relating to the European Union 83
Christoph Grabenwarter
4 The Constitutional Role of International Law 131
Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
5 Pouvoir Constituant—Constitution—Constitutionalisation 169
Christoph Möllers
6 On Finality 205
Ulrich Haltern
Part II: Institutional Issues 235
7 The Political Institutions 237
Philipp Dann
8 The Federal Order of Competences 275
Armin von Bogdandy and Jürgen Bast
9 Foreign Affairs 309
Daniel Thym
10 Legal Instruments and Judicial Protection 345
Jürgen Bast
11 Multilevel Constitutional Jurisdiction 399
Franz C Mayer
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Part III: The Legal Position of the Individual 441
12 Union Citizenship 443
Stefan Kadelbach
13 Fundamental Rights 479
Jürgen Kühling
14 Fundamental Freedoms 515
Thorsten Kingreen
15 The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 551
Jörg Monar
Part IV: The Constitution of the Social Order 587
16 The Economic Constitution within the Internal Market 589
Armin Hatje
17 The Labour Constitution 623
Florian Rödl
18 Competition Law as Part of the European Constitution 659
Josef Drexl
Part V: Contending Visions of European Integration 699
19 The European Union as a Federal Association of States and Citizens 701
Ulrich Everling
20 The European Union of States 735
Paul Kirchhof
21 The Advantages of the European Constitution 763
Manfred Zuleeg
Index 787
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Contents
Preface v
List of Contributors xxix
Table of Cases xxxi
The Constitutional Approach to EU Law—From Taming Intergovernmental
Relationships to Framing Political Processes 1
Armin von Bogdandy and Jürgen Bast
I. The Idea of the Volume 1
II. The Structure of the Volume 3
III. Reaction to Critique 5
Part I: Defining the Field of European Constitutional Law 9
1 Founding Principles 11
Armin von Bogdandy
I. Aims, Theses and Premises 11
II. Theoretical Issues Regarding the Union’s Founding Principles 13
1. Founding Principles and Constitutional Scholarship 13
2. Three Functions of a Legal Doctrine of Principles 14
a) Doctrinal Constructivism 14
b) The Role of Legal Doctrine for Legal Practice 17
c) Maintenance and Development of a ‘Legal Infrastructure’ 17
3. Perspectives of Legal and Integration Policy 18
III. General Issues of a European Doctrine of Principles 20
1. The Subject Matter 20
a) Principles in European Law 20
b) The Union’s Founding Principles and Their Constitutional Character 21
c) Principles of Public International Law 23
2. On the Role of Constitutional Principles of the Member States 24
3. Uniform Founding Principles in View of Heterogeneous Primary Law 26
IV. On the Relationship between the Union and its Member States 28
1. The Creation of Unity under the Rule of Law Principle 28
a) Rule of Law and Supranational Law 28
b) The Effectiveness Principle 29
c) The Principle of Comprehensive Legal Protection 32
2. Principles of the Political Process 33
a) The Rule of Law and the Legality Principle 33
b) Principles of the Order of Competences 35
c) The Principle of the Free Pursuit of Interests 37
3. Principles of the Composite (Verbund) of Union and Member States 38
a) The Composite (Verbund) as a New Perspective 38
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