The Future of EU Constitutionalism
Location:
Moot Court Room,
Old College
Date/time
Wed 13 September 2023
17:00 - 18:30
Europa Institute and Edinburgh Law School event:
Book launch: The The Future of EU Constitutionalism, edited by Dr Matej Avbelj.
Key speakers
Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (Edinburgh Law School) - Event Chair
Professor Matej Avbelj (New University Ljubljana) – Book Editor
Professor Jo Shaw (Edinburgh Law School)
Dr. Rachael Craufurd Smith (Edinburgh Law School)
Dr. Stephen Coutts (Edinburgh Law School)
Partner institutions
Europa Institute
Description
Is there a real and meaningful future for EU constitutionalism? This collection explores this question in light of recent challenges to EU constitutional law; namely the pandemic and the political schisms emerging across the European Union. The contributors explore the question through the prism of the five main pillars of EU constitutionalism: the constitutional values, the EU formal constitutional framework, its substance consisting of the EU political and economic constitution, and conclude by looking at the foundational concept of sovereignty (national and European) in a global realm. Drawing on expertise from both 'old' and 'new' Europe, it gives voice to the most fundamental question facing the Union in its second half century.
Contact email: europa@ed.ac.uk