The Unity of the European Constitution [Paperback]

This book collects the contributions to a conference of a group of young Polish and German public law scholars on the Constitutional Law of the European Union. The articles present a multi-faceted examination of unity and its realization in the primary and constitutional law of the EU, an analysis of EU constitutional structure in the face of diversity, and the independence of EU law from international common law, among other topics.

European Ungleichzeitigkeit: Introductory Remarks on a Binational Discussion about Unity in the European Union.- European Ungleichzeitigkeit: Introductory Remarks on a Binational Discussion about Unity in the European Union.- General Questions.- The Constitutional Treaty as a Reflexive Constitution.- Thoughts on a Methodology of European Constitutional Law.- Comment on Philipp Dann: Some Remarks on the Methodology of the Constitutional Law of the European Union.- The Primacy of European Union Law Over National Law Under the Constitutional Treaty.- Supremacy  Lost? Comment on Roman Kwiecie?.- The Democracy Concept of the European Union: Coherent Constitutional Principle or Prosaic Declaration of Intent?.- Comment on Niels Petersen: A Democratic Union: Coherent Constitutional Principle or Prosaic Declaration of Intent.- Institutional Aspects of the Constitution  Towards a New Institutional Balance?.- The Plurality of the Legislative Process and a System for Attributing Procedures to Competences.- The Concept of the Legislative Act in the Constitutional Treaty.- Comment on Alexander T?rk: The Concept of the Legislative Act.- The Emperors New Clothes: The ECB and the New Institutional Concept.- Comment on Timo Tohidipur.- The Right to an Effective Remedy Pursuant to Article II-107 Paragraph 1 of the Constitutional Treaty.- Comment on Katharina Pabel: The Right to an Effective Remedy in a Polycentric Legal System.- Sectoral Differentiation in the Constitution.- Developments in the Area of Freedom, Security and Juslsš