Sag, wo die Soldaten sind, Wo sind sie geblieben? So begann die dritte Strophe von Pete Seeger's legendärem Blumen-Lied. Wie sollte die bittere Melancholie seiner Lyrik zu dem turn zu governance passen, den die Europapolitik offiziös unter dem Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi i.J. 2001...

'Konstitutionalisierung' ist zum Schlüsselbegriff der Debatten um die Legitimität des Regierens in der Europäischen Union und im internationalen System geworden. Dieser Essay plädiert für eine Rückbesinnung auf eine in diesen Diskussionen weithin vernachlässigte Disziplin. Es geht ihm...

'Unity in Diversity' was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon. This essay argues that it deserves to be kept alive albeit in a new constitutional perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European...

The paper reacts to a widespread perception of the development of the European Community after the adoption and implementation of the internal market programme. These perceptions are characterised as endorsing the emergence of a "market without the state". This vision, the paper argues, is...

As the title of this lecture indicates, it builds upon the authors previous ananlysis of the European Communities market building efforts (C. Joerges, The Market Without the State? The "Economic Constitution" of the European Community and the Rebirth of Regulatory Politics , European Integration...

This paper is essentially a translation of a comment in German (Joerges 2000) on a series of articles in which Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (1998, 1999a, 1999b) developed a concept of legitimate governance beyond the constitutional state, which he called deliberative supra-nationalism and contrasted...

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...

Our title refers to old but ongoing debates on conflict of laws as a legal subdiscipline. Christian Joerges has taken up this debate in his PhD-Thesis of 1971. Building on the so-called « American conflicts-law revolution » led by Brainerd Currie, he criticised the German private...

The European Union is in troubled waters. Its original reliance on law as the object and agent of the integration project and the "economic constitution" which Economic and Monetary Union as accomplished by the Maastricht Treaty were expected to complete proved to be unsustainable. Following the...

"Conflicts-law constitutionalism" seeks to defend the rule of law and the idea of law-mediated legitimacy in the postnational constellation. The idea of its "three dimensional" differentiation responds to general developments of legal systems, namely the emergence of legal frameworks for...