'Integration through Law' Revisited: The Making of the European Polity

by Daniel Augenstein, Emilios Christodoulidis, Sharon Cowan

Overview

This volume provides a valuable reference for scholars in the field of European integration studies and European legal and political theory. The contributors revisit one of the first academic projects to conceptualise and study European legal integration - the early 'Integration through Law' School. On this basis, they consider continuities and discontinuities in the underlying social and political landscape which the law is to integrate (the 'object' of integration), the forms and capacities of the law itself (the 'agent' of integration), and the way these two dimensions reflect on each other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409497981
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Series:	Edinburgh/Glasgow Law and Society Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr. Daniel Augenstein is Assistant Professor in Legal Philosophy at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He works and publishes in the areas of European Law and Theory, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Legal Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preface; What Law for What Polity? ‘Integration through Law’ in the European Union Revisited, Daniel Augenstein, Mark Dawson; Part I The Constitutional Frame of EU Legal Integration; Chapter 1 European Integration and European Constitutionalism, Maria Cahill; Chapter 2 The Legal Viability of European Integration in the Absence of Constitutional Hierarchy, Matej Avbelj; Chapter 3 Taking Agency Seriously, Alun Gibbs; Intervention 1, Niamh Nic Shuibhne; Part II Conceptions and Roles of Law in European Integration; Chapter 4 Concepts of Law in Integration through Law, Cormac Mac Amhlaigh; Chapter 5 Juridification, Integration and Depoliticization, Scott Veitch; Chapter 6 Identifying the European Union, Daniel Augenstein; Chapter 102 Intervention 2, Zenon Bakowski; Part III Beyond ‘Integration Through Law’?; Chapter 7 From Integration through Law to Integration through Conflict, Rainer Nickel; Chapter 8 Integration through Soft Law? New Governance and the Meaning of Legality in the European Union, Mark Dawson; Chapter 9 The Double Fragmentation of Law, Jennifer Hendry; Chapter 103 Intervention 3, Jo Shaw; Chapter 104 Epilogue, J.H.H. Weiler;

Editorial Reviews

'This rich collection of essays revisits the classic and influential volume Integration Through Law published in 1985, and provides a range of stimulating contemporary reflections on the meanings of "law" and "integration" in the EU context. Maintaining the connection which the original volume had with the European University Institute in Florence, and adding the talents of the European and legal theory faculty at the University of Edinburgh, it is a theoretically informed and sophisticated set of analyses of the presumed relationship between law and integration at a very different and troubled time in the European Union's history.' Gráinne de Búrca, New York University Law School, USA 'Integration through Law, the flagship of European law scholarship, deserves and needs to be revisited as Europe gets into ever more troubled waters. What did law accomplish? Where did it fail? What is law going to endure? This well-composed collection is sensitive to all these queries - a timely initiative indeed.' Christian Joerges, University of Bremen, Germany

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