with an adherence to a ‘strict construction’ in the interpretation of EU law and the relative absence of instances of …

is based on egalitarian and individualistic premises, and is related closely to the constitutional law and the … century led to a complete reconstruction, new foundation and globalization of all national and international law. The … evolutionary advances of the 20th century consisted in the emergence of world law, and this finally enabled the normative (not …

constitutional adjudication in hard cases (such as the resolution of conflicts between European and national constitutional law). In … constitutional law, without losing their institutional structure and identity. We claim that there are three basic insights in … constitutional synthesis. The first is that the constitutional law which frames and contributes to steer integration is characterised …

production of international or global law. Thus questions about the legitimacy of global law and governance arise particularly … best of what the older sovereignty regime of international law had to offer – constitutionalism, democracy, self …

This paper aims at putting forward the key elements of a constitutional theory of European law on the basis of D. Neil … MacCormick’s theory of European constitutional pluralism. Firstly, I consider how the institutional theory of law fleshed out by … constitutional theories of Community law. Because standard theoretical re-constructions of Community law are premised on the close …