Sovereignty in Transition

Neil Walker is Professor of European Law at the EUI Florence.

• Part A — Disciplinary perspectives1. Late Sovereignty in the European UnionNeil Walker2. Sovereignty: Unpopular and PopularBert Van Roermund3. Ten Tenets of SovereigntyMartin Loughlin4. Sovereignty and Representation in the European UnionHans Lindahl5. Sovereignty and Constitutionalism in International LawBardo Fassbender6. From State Sovereignty to the ‘Sovereignty of Citizens’ in the International Relations of the EU?Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann7. Sovereignty, Post-Sovereignty and Pre-Sovereignty: Three Models of the State, Democracy and Rights within the EURichard Bellamy8. Sovereignty and Plurinational Democracy: Problems in Political ScienceMichael Keating9. Discussing Sovereignty and Transnational PoliticsJef Huysmans10.‘Que les Latins appellent maiestatem’ An exploration into the theological background of the concept of sovereigntyGovert BuijsPart B — Constitutional Perspectives I: The View from the States11. Sovereignty in France: Getting Rid of the Mal de BodinJacques Ziller12. Sovereignty Uber Alles: (Re)Configuring the German Legal OrderMiriam Aziz13. The Legacy of Sovereignty in the Italian Constitutional DebateMarta Cartabia14. United Kingdom, Divided on Sovereignty?Kenneth Armstrong15. Do Not Mention the Word: Sovereignty in two Europhile Countries—Belgium and The NetherlandsBruno de Witte16. State Sovereignty and European Integration: A Study in Public International Law, EU Law and Polish Constitutional LawCesary Mik17. Postmodern versus Retrospective Sovereignty? Two Different Discourses in the EU and the Candidate Countries?Anneli Albi18. The Debate About Sovereignty in the United States: a Historical and Comparative PerspectiveJeff GoldsworthyPart C — Constitutional Perspectives II: The View from Europe19. Sovereignty and the Supremacy Doctrine of the European Court of JusticeGráinne de Búrca20. Sovereignty at the Boundaries of the PolityJo Shaw21. Contrapunctual Law: Europe’s Constitutional Pluralism in ActionMiguel Poiares Maduro

...full of suggestive thoughts...extremely informative. Agustin Jose Menendez Political Studies January 2005 Public law scholarship seems blessed at the moment with a raft of rather good edited collections...This new collection...makes a good case for being the pick of the crop...has an uncommon coherence of purpose, and displays throughout a commitment to rigorous and thought-provoking scholarship...this book is necessary reading for all thinking public lawyers...it approaches its chosen topic with a rare focus and intensity. Thomas Poole, University of Nottingham Public Law ...a landmark in the fast-growing field of philosophy of European law. Samantha Besson International Journal of Constitutional Law January 2005 [a] splendid symposium on Sovereignty in Transitionthis is a work that brings together some distinguished legal theorists, constitutional theorists, political theorists, experts in international law and international relations, a theologian and constitutionalists from a wide variety of European legal orders, including that of the European union itself[whose] fertile minds and wide scholarship almost inevitably facilitate proof of my point about sovereignty as a cluster concept and as a contested conceptbut there is much more to this important collection of essays than a short review essay can reveal. I shall go on reading this book Neil MacCormick European Law Review June 2004 ...one will find..a set of papers by a diverse group of respected academics that are well researched. Michael Rodney, London South Bank University The Law Teacher February 2005