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Unity in Diversity as Europe’s Vocation and Conflicts Law as Europe’s Constitutional Form

  • Unity in Diversity” was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it in to the Treaty of Lisbon. It deserves to be kept alive in a new constitutional perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European law as new type of conflicts law. The new type of conflicts law which the paper advocates is not concerned with selecting the proper legal system in cases with connections to various jurisdictions. It is instead meant to respond to the increasing interdependence of formerly more autonomous legal orders and to the democracy failure of constitutional states which result from the external effects of their laws and legal decisions on non-nationals. European has many means to compensate these shortcomings. It can derive its legitimacy from that compensatory potential without developing federal aspirations. The paper illustrates this approach with the help of a topical example, namely the conflict between European economic freedoms and national industrial relations (collective labour)law. The recent jurisprudence of the ECJ in Viking, Laval, and Rüffert in which the Court established the supremacy of the freedoms over national labour law is criticised as a counterproductive deepening of Europe's constitutional asymmetry and its social deficit. The introductory and the concluding sections generalise the perspectives of the conflicts-law approach. The introductory section takes issue with max Weber’s national state. The concluding section suggests a three-dimensional differentiation of the approach which seeks to respond to the need for transnational regulation and governance.

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Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Author(s):Christian Joerges
Parent Title (English):LSE : Europe in Question Discussion Paper Series (No. 28)
Publisher:LEQS
Place of Publisher:London
Publication year:2013
Number pages:45
Related URL:http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeaninstitute/leqs/leqspaper28.pdf
Release Date:2014/11/07
Volume:28
Notes:
Free online Access / Freier online Zugriff: http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeaninstitute/leqs/leqspaper28.pdf
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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