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Postnational constitutionalism : Europe and the time of law /

"At a time when the project of integrating Europe's peoples through the rule of law is faltering, this book develops a critical theory of postnational constitutionalism. Today, widely held conceptions of European law continue to mislead citizens about the nature of political identity, sove...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linden-Retek, Paul (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in European law.
Subjects:
Constitutional law > European Union countries.
Comparative.
LAW.
Constitutional.
Emigration & Immigration.
Jurisprudence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Constitutional law
European Union countries
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series
  • Postnational Constitutionalism
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Editors' Preface
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Treaties, Legislation, and other State Documents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction: European Crisis and Constitutional Time
  • 1. Crisis and temporality: The politics of identity and sovereignty
  • 1.1 Presentism and the pursuit of mastery
  • 1.2 Postnationalism as anti-​reification
  • 2. Recovering European constitutionalism
  • 3. Critical approaches to legality and time: A methodology
  • 4. Structure of the book
  • PART I SOLIDARITY
  • 2. Postnationalism, Solidarity, and Law: The Limits of Constitutional Patriotism
  • 1. Europe dreaming in 'empty time'
  • 2. A matter of self-​critique
  • 3. Solidarity as an elusive concept in EU law
  • 4. Mutual trust through the lens of constitutional patriotism
  • 5. Questioning formal recognition: Asylum and the Dublin Regulation
  • 6. The problem of reification
  • 3. The Anti-​reification Principle: Fallibilism and Narrative Thinking
  • 1. Anti-​reification and time
  • 2. 'Positive possibility' and different futures
  • 3. Recasting solidarity: Mutual trust as mutual care
  • 3.1 Perceptions of international harm and the public claims of refugees
  • 4. Setting one's law adrift: Further contexts
  • 4.1 Austerity and Europe's social question
  • PART II CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION
  • 4. Fragments of European Law: The 'Presentist' Conceit of Legal Coherence
  • 1. Europe's constitutional imaginaries
  • 1.1 'History'
  • 1.2 'System'
  • 1.3 'Principle'
  • 2. The reification of legal order
  • 3. Doctrine and time: In search of intelligibility
  • 5. Narrative Interpretation: 'Analogy' and the Postnational Imaginary
  • 1. The narrative character of legal commitments
  • 2. Beyond mastery: The hinge of utopia and ideology
  • 3. Temptations of technocratic judgement: Proportionality analysis and political economy
  • 4. Jurisdiction and humanity: X and X v Belgium in the analogical frame
  • 4.1 The jurisgenerative potential of anti-​reification: The opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi
  • 4.1.1 Contingency
  • 4.1.2 Concreteness
  • 4.1.3 Utopia
  • 4.2. Judicial review beyond the national polity
  • 5. Postnationalism in law's time
  • PART III CONSTITUENT POWER
  • 6. Reconstructing Popular Sovereignty in Europe: Pouvoir Constituant Mixte and its Discontents
  • 1. Postnationality, authority, and narrative
  • 2. Reconstructing popular sovereignty in Europe
  • 2.1 Strands of an inherited and an emerging debate
  • 2.2 Pouvoir constituant mixte
  • 2.3 Shared but asymmetrical power
  • 2.4 You, the living? Reification and the polity 'ready-​to-​hand'
  • 3. The political economy of the rule of law
  • 7. The Authority to Judge: Pouvoir Constituant Narratif
  • 1. Iterability and the political meaning of time