Law

The European Union Liaison Committee of Historians series offers new insights in the history of the European Communities and the European Union as a major part of contemporary history. Based on research in the archives of the EU and its member states and discussed on a European level the collective volumes and monograph studies published here provide milestones in the understanding of the different periods and fields of European integration and promote a coherent European perspective on its history.

The series of publications entitled “Rekonstruktive Weltpolitikforschung” publishes studies which address the pulsating developments in world politics and share an interest in adopting approaches to a subject that are exploratory and allow for theories to be devised as well as in the continued development of the research methods they employ. These studies all have a mutual formal theoretical basis which neutralises and integrates the typical clashes between talking and taking action, theory and practice, or understanding and explaining. Moreover, the authors of these studies all agree that events in global politics are determined by a universe of interpretations and convictions, intersubjective rules and norms and systemically induced effects whose substance can be reconstructed in detail.

The series presents latest results of academic research carried out by leading experts in the field of European Constitutionalism. Coordinated by its founding member Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice, managing director of the Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law at the Humboldt-University Berlin, the European Constitutional Law Network (ECLN, www.ecln.net) gathers academics and judges from more than twenty EU-Member States and candidate countries as well as specialists from Switzerland, the USA and EU-institutions. Bridging different national contexts and combining practical experiences with academic reflection, the main activities of the ECLN aim both at the increase of research cooperation and the establishment of a continuous multinational academic dialogue. International conferences on recent reform steps and key issues of European multilevel constitutionalism are regularly hosted by the ECLN. The outcome of this Europe-wide and transatlantic discourse is published in this series.