The idea of an “economic constitution” was developed by a group of German economists and lawyers in the Weimar Republic which sought a “third - the ordo-liberal - way” between laissez-faire liberalism and socialist politics. Ordo-liberalism survived the Third Reich untainted. In the 50s,...

The European Union is in troubled waters. Its original reliance on law as the object and agent of the integration project and on the “economic constitution” which the EMU, as accomplished by the Treaty of Maastricht, were expected to complete have proven to be unsustainable. Following the...

This chapter argues that the one-sidedness of the integration process, its promotion of ever deeper economic integration, has contributed to the legitimacy crisis with which the EU is confronted at present. This crisis has, in the course of the efforts to tame the financial crisis through...

This discussion of the ECJ in the context of a project on political representation in the EU responds to the Court's changing functions in the integration process and also to the critique which the exercise of this function has provoked in recent years after the Court objected to constitutional...

The idea of an “economic constitution” was developed by a group of German economists and lawyers in the Weimar Republic which sought a “third way” – the “ordo-liberal way” – between laissez-faire liberalism and socialist politics. Ordo-liberalism survived the Third Reich...