The Constitution of European Democracy

Paul Post, European Constitutional Law Review The Constitution of European Democracy ... [presents] provocative and pioneering ideas. Such critical discussions of the Treaties' structure, the existing democratic framework and generally the entire European project are more necessary than ever after the sovereign debt crisis, the migration crisis and the Brexit decision.

Dieter Grimm teaches constitutional law at Humboldt University Berlin and the Yale Law School. From 1987-1999 he served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2001-2007 he was the Director of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) whose Permanent Fellow he continues to be. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard, New York University, Toronto, Rome, Kolkata, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Toronto, Gottingen, Porto Alegre, and Bucarest. He has widely published on matters of constitutional law, constitutional history, constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and European Union law. Justin Collings Justin Collings is Associate Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he teaches comparative constitutional law, legal history, and torts. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and holds a Ph.D. in modern European history from Yale University. In 2012-2013 he was law clerk to the Honourable Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

1: Europe, Yes - But Which Europe? 2: In Search of Acceptance: On the Legitimacy Deficit and the Legitimacy Resources of the European Union 3: Sovereignty in Europe 4: On the Status of the EU's Democratic Legitimacy After Lisbon 5: The Democratic Costs of Constitutionalization - The European Case 6: The Cause of European Democracy Deficit is Sought in the Wrong Place 7: The Necessity of Europeanized Elections and Parties 8: The Significance of National Constitutions in a United Europe 9: The Role of National Parliaments in the European Union 10: The Role of National Constitutional Courts in European Democracy 11: The Basic Law as a Barrier Against a Transformation of the EU Into a State 12: Europe Needs Principles, Not Pragmatism