EU Constitutionalisation Revisited: Redressing a central assumption in European Studies

Morten Rasmussen; Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen

doi:10.1111/eulj.12317

EU Constitutionalisation Revisited: Redressing a central assumption in European Studies

Morten Rasmussen, Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen

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The constitutionalisation of the European Union has since the early 1990s become a truism in European studies. This article revisits the constitutionalisation theory drawing on the insights from emerging historical research and new strands of political science research. We find that the conventional constitutional narrative is less convincing when confronted with the new evidence from historical and political science research. New historical research show that Member State governments, administrations and courts have generally been rather reluctant to embrace the constitutional project of the ECJ. Furthermore, at the level of European politics, the ECJ and its case law have far from judicialized European decision‐making to the extent often claimed. Concluding, we reject the notion that the ECJ has successfully constitutionalised the EU, emphasising instead the inherent tensions in the process, which continue to complicate the efficiency of European law.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	European Law Journal
Vol/bind	25
Udgave nummer	3
Sider (fra-til)	251-272
ISSN	1351-5993
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12317
Status	Udgivet - maj 2019

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