…the volume clearly contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the contributions of a legal pluralist framework in constitutional and global contexts, and as such it has a solid scholarly audience and is most suited for teaching at the graduate level in political science and law.
- Mihaela Serban, Law and Politics Book Review, Volume 23(2)
1 Introduction
A Constitutional Mosaic? Exploring the New Frontiers of Europe's Constitutionalism
Neil Walker and Stephen Tierney
PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN UNION
2 The European Union's Constitutional Mosaic: Big 'C' or Small 'c', Is that the Question?
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
3 An Area of Darkness: Three Conceptions of the Relationship Between European Union Law and State Constitutional Law
Julio Baquero Cruz
PART TWO: THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
4 Burying, Not Praising the European Convention on Human Rights: A Provocation
Andrew Williams
5 Europe's Constitutional Mosaic: Human Rights in the European Legal Space – Utopia, Dystopia, Monotopia or Polytopia?
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
PART THREE: THE WIDER EUROPE
6 The Constitutional Mosaic Across the Boundaries of the European Union: Citizenship Regimes in the New States of South Eastern Europe
Jo Shaw
7 The Council of Europe as a Norm Entrepreneur: The Political Strengths of a Weak International Institution
Gwendolyn Sasse
PART FOUR: EUROPE BELOW THE STATE
8 Recognition as Domination: Constitutionalism, Reciprocity and the Problem of Singularity
Hans Lindahl
9 Liberal Democracy's Timber is Still Too Straight: The Case of Political Models for Coexistence in Composite States
Ferran Requejo
PART FIVE: EUROPE AND THE WORLD
10 The Constitutionalisation of International Organisations
Anne Peters
11 The European Union in the Global Constitutional Mosaic
Jan Klabbers
PART SIX: OTHER CASE STUDIES
12 European Criminal Law Under the Developing Constitutional Setting of the European Union
Kimmo Nuotio
13 The Constitutional Function of Labour Law in the European Union
Ruth Dukes
A comprehensive overview of the different European constitutions.
The book brings together a range of experts in law, legal theory and political science from across Europe in order to address the complexity of Europe's constitutional mosaic.
Discussion of a topical and important subject.