European Constitutional Law Working Group
The European Constitutional Law Working Group is set up by EUI law researchers with the support of Professor Miguel Poiares Maduro in order to discuss both EU and national constitutional law, as well as the interaction between the two. Contributions from other social sciences that reflect the issues of constitutionalism in Europe, as well as papers on the institutional evolution of the Union are also very welcome.
The working group meets monthly for paper-based discussions and debates; only an introductory five-minute presentation of the papers is given. More information about the working group, upcoming sessions and papers is available to EUI law researchers on the working group's EUI Collab page .
Past Sessions
16 March 2012
‘The Age of “New Rights”’
Paper giver: Marta Cartabia (Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court)
5 March 2012
The Grand Constitutional Trio: European Constitutionalism Ten Years from the Convention on the Future of Europe (in the framework of the seminar "Constitutional Developments in the EU" by Giuliano Amato)
Discussants: Giuliano Amato (professor, EUI, former Prime Minister of Italy, former Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe), Jacques Ziller (Professor, University of Padua), Bruno De Witte (Professor, EUI)
16 February 2012
EUI Debate on the Fiscal Compact Treaty
Discussants: Loïc Azoulai (Professor of EU law, EUI), Miguel Poiares Maduro (Professor of EU law, Director of the Global Governance Programme, EUI), Bruno De Witte (Professor, EUI), Anna Hyvärinen (former ministerial adviser (EU law) at the Prime Minister's office, Finland), Marise Cremona (Head of the Law Department, Professor of EU law, EUI)
8 December 2011
"Constitutionalism as Pluralism"
Paper giver: Professor Miguel Poiares Maduro
22 November 2011
"The Financial Crisis Management and Democracy in Europe"
Paper giver: Professor Roland Bieber, Discussant: Professor Brigit Laffan