The constitutionalization of the state, the juridification of political power is one of the major achievements in the civilization of modern politics. Can and will this achievement survive the post-national constellation? The state no longer possesses all powers but some of its ruling authority...

ECJ direct tax cases and domestic constitutional principles: an overview / Claudio Sacchetto -- Double taxation and EC law / Michael Lang -- Nondiscrimination from the perspective of the OECD model and the EC treaty: structural and conceptual issues / Kees van Raad -- The US Supreme Court's...

In order to be simultaneously effective and liberal, governments must normally be able to count on voluntary compliance - which, in turn, depends on the support of socially shared legitimacy beliefs. In Western constitutional democracies, such beliefs are derived from the distinct but coexistent...