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,...

Against a backdrop of rapidly evolving crisis management in the European financial and sovereign debt crisis this essay aims both to explore and to re-consider the role of law in the EU integration process: What did law accomplish? Where did it fail? What is law going to endure? What kind of...

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...