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Sovereignty in Transition Essays in European Law

Author: Neil Walker
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781841135649
Published In: October 2006
Format: Paperback , 580 pages
Jurisdiction: European Union ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Neil Walker is Professor of European Law at the EUI Florence.

...a landmark in the fast-growing field of philosophy of European law.
Samantha Besson
International Journal of Constitutional Law
January 2005

[a] splendid symposium on Sovereignty in Transitionthis is a work that brings together some distinguished legal theorists, constitutional theorists, political theorists, experts in international law and international relations, a theologian and constitutionalists from a wide variety of European legal orders, including that of the European union itself[whose] fertile minds and wide scholarship almost inevitably facilitate proof of my point about sovereignty as a cluster concept and as a contested conceptbut there is much more to this important collection of essays than a short review essay can reveal. I shall go on reading this book
Neil MacCormick
European Law Review
June 2004

...one will find…a set of papers by a diverse group of respected academics that are well researched..
Michael Rodney, London South Bank University
The Law Teacher
February 2005

…provides detailed and useful reading to those interested in European law and politics.
Jill Stavert
Scolag Journal
Issue 358, August 2007