Rise and Fall of the European Constitution

NW Barber is Professor of Constitutional Law and Theory at the University of Oxford.Maria Cahill is Lecturer in Law at the University College Cork. Richard Ekins is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction2. From the Years of the Convention to the Years of Brexit. Where Do We Go from Here? Giuliano Amato3. Constitutionalisation without Constitution: A Democracy Problem Dieter Grimm4. The EU’s Constitutional Moment: A View from the Ground Up Kalypso Nicolaidis5. Treaty Amendment, the Draft Constitution and European Integration Paul Craig6. The European Constitution and Europe’s Dialectical Federalism Erin F Delaney7. The Two Europes NW Barber8. The Competence Catalogue in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon: Improvement, but at a Cost Stephen Weatherill9. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU’s Shallow Constitutionalism Dorota Leczykiewicz10. The EU Constitution, Sovereignty and the Problem of Primacy Gunnar Beck11. Europe’s Constitutional Overture Neil Walker12. The European Constitution and ‘the Compulsion to Grand Politics’ Richard Mullender13. Recollections from and Reflections on the Making and Failure of the European Constitution Gisela Stuart

[T]his “ripe” collection of recollections and reflections on the most essential and controversial issues that let the EU’s constitutional moment be bygone presents an inspiring, critical and yet affirmative account on the rise and resurgence of the European Constitution.