Global Constitutionalism and Its Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. General Constitutional Theory of Global Constitutionalism -- 1. Global Constitutionalism and Normative Hierarchies -- I. The Basic Problem: The Disorder Created by the Multiplication and Dispersion of Legal Producers and of Places of Production of Law in the Global Space -- II. Theories of Global Constitutionalism as Efforts to Instil some Order and Values into the Normative Disorder of Legal Globalisation -- III. The Problem of Normative Hierarchies in Legal Globalisation -- IV. Global Constitutionalism and Links between Legal Orders -- V. Global Constitutionalism and Normative Arrangements -- VI. Global Constitutionalism and Dissemination of the Rule of Law's Fundamental Principles -- VII. Conclusion: Necessity and Limits of Global Constitutionalism -- 2. The Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Geometry in the Age of Supranational Constitutionalism, Global Governance and Information Revolution -- I. Taking Constitutional Geometry Seriously -- II. Geometrical Explanatory Paradigms in Westphalian Constitutional Law -- III. Post-Westphalian Challenges of Supranational Constitutionalism, Global Governance and Information Revolution to the Constitutional Geometry of Westphalian Constitutional Law -- IV. Conclusion -- 3. Overcoming False Dichotomies: Constitutionalism and Pluralism in European and International Studies -- I. Aims and Structure -- II. Constitutionalism According to Krisch -- III. Questioning this Reconstruction -- IV. Italian Constitutionalism between Resistance and Openness -- V. The Italian Constituent Process and Its Relevance -- VI. External Openness -- VII. Final Remarks -- Part II. Limits to Global Constitutionalism -- 4. Counter-developments to Global Constitutionalism -- I. The Road Towards Constitutional Authoritarianism.

II. The Threats to Global Constitutionalism -- III. Between Societal and Civic Constitutionalism -- 5. Romanian Tendential Constitutionalism and the Limits of European Constitutional Culture -- I. Failure of the European Model of Civic Constitutionalism -- II. The European Constitutional Convergence and the Limits of the European Constitutional Transplant -- III. Factors Explaining the Poor Romanian Score in Endorsing Civic Constitutionalism -- IV. Romanian Tendential Constitutionalism -- V. Conclusions -- Part III. Issues of European Supranational Constitutionalism -- 6. The Limits of Sovereignty Pooling: Lessons from Europe -- I. An Evergreen Problem Re-exposed -- II. Keohane's Idea of Pooled Sovereignty -- III. Sovereignty Pooling in EU Constitutional Law -- IV. The Nightfall of Sovereignty Pooling in Europe? -- 7. EU Agencies in the Internal Market: A Constitutional Challenge for EU Law -- I. Introduction -- II. EU Agencies in the Complex Nature of the EU Integration Process -- III. The Constitutional Value of the Meroni Doctrine -- IV. The Constitutional Challenges to EU Agencies -- V. Final Remarks -- Index.

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