Sovereignty in Transition

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Neil Walker
Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov 28, 2003 - Law - 572 pages
Sovereignty in Transition brings together a group of leading scholars from law and cognate disciplines to assess contemporary developments in the framework of ideas and the variety of institutional forms associated with the concept of sovereignty. Sovereignty has been described as the main organising concept of the international society of states - one which is traditionally central to the discipline and practice of both constitutional law and of international law. The volume asks to what extent,and with what implications, this centrality is challenged by contemporary developments that shift authority away from the state to new sub-state, supra-state and non-state forms. A particular focus of attention is the European Union, and the relationship between the sovereignty traditions of various member states on the one hand and the new claims to authority made on behalf of the European Union itself on the other are examined. The collection also includes contributions from international law, legal philosophy, legal history, political theory, political science, international relations and theology that seek to examine the state of the sovereignty debate in these disciplines in ways that throw light on the focal constitutional debate in the European Union.
 

Contents

Preface
Unpopular and Popular
Ten Tenets of Sovereignty
Sovereignty and Representation in the European Union
Sovereignty and Constitutionalism in International
From State Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Citizens in the International
Three Models of
Problems in Political Science
The Legacy of Sovereignty in the Italian Constitutional Debate
United Kingdom Divided on Sovereignty?
Sovereignty in Two Europhile Countries
A Study in Public
Postmodern Versus Retrospective Sovereignty? Two Different Discourses
a Historical
Sovereignty and the Supremacy Doctrine of the European Court of Justice
Sovereignty at the Boundaries of the Polity

Discussing Sovereignty and Transnational Politics
Que les Latins appellent maiestatem An Exploration into the Theological
Getting Rid of the Mal de Bodin
ReConfiguring the German Legal Order
Europes Constitutional Pluralism in Action
Index
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Neil Walker is Professor of European Law at the EUI Florence.

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