To the question: Is constitutional review by a Constitutional Court law or politics? This article responds with a survey of various notions of the political, providing illustrations drawn from France and Europe and assessing Louis Favoreu's role in French debates on the legitimacy of review. The...

Democracy is explained by giving the power to the government, with the consent of citizens, expressing their will, directly or indirectly through voting. Promoting and respecting individual and collective rights and freedoms is the foundation of democracy. Citizen participation is remarkable on...

European constitution should be examined as a process – as constitutionalisation – rather than a standstill, once-made legal phenomenon. Moreover, this process has been a differentiated one: not all the aspects of European constitution have developed simultaneously or at a similar pace....

Europe’s current constitutional landscape is marked by an underlying conflict between alternative strategies of integration related to different economic and social conflicts. Whereas constitutional structuring in the EU member states revolves around conflicts reminiscent of 19th and 20th...