Postconstitutional Treaty

German Law Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1121-1131

  Somek, Alexander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study   (Germany)

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EID: 84883945911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20718322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200006234     Document Type: Article

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2. nd German-Polish Seminar on the Constitutional of the European Union", 6 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 1433-1760 (2005), Guest Editors: Philipp Dann & Michal Rynkowski, available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol06/pdf-Vol-06-No-11.pdf; see also the observations by the sitting judge responsible for EU Law on the German Federal Constitutional Court, Udo Di Fabio, The European Constitutional Treaty: An Analysis, 5 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 945 (2004), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol05No08/PDF-Vol-05-No-08-945-956-EU-DiFabio.pdf.
3. nd German-Polish Seminar on the Constitutional of the European Union", 6 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 1433-1760 (2005), Guest Editors: Philipp Dann & Michal Rynkowski, available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol06/pdf-Vol-06-No-11.pdf; see also the observations by the sitting judge responsible for EU Law on the German Federal Constitutional Court, Udo Di Fabio, The European Constitutional Treaty: An Analysis, 5 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 945 (2004), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol05No08/PDF-Vol-05-No-08-945-956-EU-DiFabio.pdf.
4. Johannes Jarlebring, Taking Stock of the European Convention: What Added Value does the Convention bring to the process of treaty revision?, 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 785 (2003), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No08/PDF-Vol-04-No-08-785-799-european-Jarlebring.pdf; Alexandra Kemmerer, Constitutional Law as a Work of Art: Experts' Eyes: Judges of the World Examine the Constitution of Europe, 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 859 (2003), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No08/PDF-Vol-04-No-08-859-862-legalcult-Kemmerer.pdf; for a most recent analysis, see Michal Krzyżanowski & Florian Oberhuber, (UN)DOING EUROPE: DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES OF NEGOTIATING THE EU CONSTITUTION (2007).
5. Johannes Jarlebring, Taking Stock of the European Convention: What Added Value does the Convention bring to the process of treaty revision?, 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 785 (2003), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No08/PDF-Vol-04-No-08-785-799-european-Jarlebring.pdf; Alexandra Kemmerer, Constitutional Law as a Work of Art: Experts' Eyes: Judges of the World Examine the Constitution of Europe, 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 859 (2003), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No08/PDF-Vol-04-No-08-859-862-legalcult-Kemmerer.pdf; for a most recent analysis, see Michal Krzyżanowski & Florian Oberhuber, (UN)DOING EUROPE: DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES OF NEGOTIATING THE EU CONSTITUTION (2007).
6. Johannes Jarlebring, Taking Stock of the European Convention: What Added Value does the Convention bring to the process of treaty revision?, 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 785 (2003), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No08/PDF-Vol-04-No-08-785-799-european-Jarlebring.pdf; Alexandra Kemmerer, Constitutional Law as a Work of Art: Experts' Eyes: Judges of the World Examine the Constitution of Europe, 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 859 (2003), available here: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No08/PDF-Vol-04-No-08-859-862-legalcult-Kemmerer.pdf; for a most recent analysis, see Michal Krzyżanowski & Florian Oberhuber, (UN)DOING EUROPE: DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES OF NEGOTIATING THE EU CONSTITUTION (2007).
7. Dominik Hanf, State and Future of the European Constitution - Improvement or Radical Reform?, 2 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 15 (15 September 2001), available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/article.php?id=89
8. See Dieter Grimm, Integration by constitution, 3 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 193 (2005); see also Neil Walker, Europe's Constitutional Engagement, 18 Ratio Iuris 387 (2005), at 388, 398 on "generating a deeper sense of political community".
9. See Dieter Grimm, Integration by constitution, 3 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 193 (2005); see also Neil Walker, Europe's Constitutional Engagement, 18 Ratio Iuris 387 (2005), at 388, 398 on "generating a deeper sense of political community".
10. See, e.g., Mattias Kumm, The Idea of Thick Constitutional Patriotism and Its Implications for the Role of and Structure of European Legal History, 6 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 619 (2005), available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol06No02/PDF-Vol-06-No-02-319-355-Art-SI-Kumm.pdf; Peer Zumbansen & Morag Goodwin, American and European Constitutionalism Compared: A Report from the UNIDEM Conference in Göttingen, 23-24 May 2003, 4 German Law Journal 613 (2003), available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No06/PDF-Vol-04-No-06-613-627-Legal-Goodwin-Zumbansen.pdf
11. See, e.g., Mattias Kumm, The Idea of Thick Constitutional Patriotism and Its Implications for the Role of and Structure of European Legal History, 6 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 619 (2005), available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol06No02/PDF-Vol-06-No-02-319-355-Art-SI-Kumm.pdf; Peer Zumbansen & Morag Goodwin, American and European Constitutionalism Compared: A Report from the UNIDEM Conference in Göttingen, 23-24 May 2003, 4 German Law Journal 613 (2003), available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No06/PDF-Vol-04-No-06-613-627-Legal-Goodwin-Zumbansen.pdf
12. See Neil Walker, Postnational constitutionalism and the problem of translation, in: EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONALISM BEYOND THE STATE 27 (J.H.H. Weiler & M. Wind eds., 2003).
13. For example, one scholar sensed that even though the European Union lacked constitutional authority it nevertheless tried to submit its operation to the authority of constitutional law. See Miguel Poiares Maduro, The Importance of Being Called a Constitution: Constitutional authority and the authority of constitutionalism 3 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 332 (2005), at 352.
14. See J.H.H. Weiler, A Constitution for Europe? Some of the Hard Choices, 40 JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES 555 (2003).
15. Consider, for a moment, in which sense the constitutional treaty, despite all its symbolic rattle, could have not been a constitution. It could have not been in the manner in which an oligarchy does not reach up to the level of an aristocracy, for although all the prerequisites are in place (wealth, an upper class) the decisive orientation towards the public good is missing. No direct comparison can be made with the EU. What mattes, however, is the experience of falling short. The functional remains, the aspirational disappears. The functional predominates and the constitution of power to control one's destiny is no longer in place.
16. Generally attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte with reference to the 1804 Code Civil. See Günter Frankenberg, Comparing Constitutions: ideas, ideals and ideology - toward a layered narrative, 4 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 439 (2006), note 2
17. See J.H.H. Weiler, On the Power of the Word: Europe's constitutional iconography 3 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 173 (2005), at 181-182.
18. See Christian Joerges & Florian Rödl, 'The "Social Market Economy" as Europe's Social Model?' EUI WORKING PAPER LAW 2004/8, www.iue.it/PUB/law04-8.pdf.
19. For perceptive observations, see Nico Krisch, Europe's Constitutional Monstrosity, 25 OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 321 (2005), at 332-333.
20. For a critical analysis, see Mattias Kumm, Constitutionalising Subsidiarity in Integrated Markets: The Case of Tobacco Regulation in the European Union 12 EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL 503 (2006).