Flynn, Tom (2018) Triangular Constitutionalism: The Consequences of Constitutional Pluralism for Domestic Constitutional Thought. In: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law. Research Handbooks in European Law . Edward Elgar, United Kingdom, pp. 133-153. ISBN 978 1 78643 308 4. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433091.00015
Flynn, Tom (2018) Triangular Constitutionalism: The Consequences of Constitutional Pluralism for Domestic Constitutional Thought. In: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law. Research Handbooks in European Law . Edward Elgar, United Kingdom, pp. 133-153. ISBN 978 1 78643 308 4. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433091.00015
Flynn, Tom (2018) Triangular Constitutionalism: The Consequences of Constitutional Pluralism for Domestic Constitutional Thought. In: Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law. Research Handbooks in European Law . Edward Elgar, United Kingdom, pp. 133-153. ISBN 978 1 78643 308 4. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433091.00015
Abstract
Though constitutional pluralism has become well established as a way of thinking about EU constitutional law, its lessons have yet to be properly internalised in national constitutional discourse. The aim of the ‘triangular constitutionalism’ outlined here is threefold: first, to wean national constitutional thought off the solipsism that imagines that national constitutions can be thought of and engaged with in isolation, cut off from the European legal orders. Secondly, to provide a theoretically sound framework for the application of constitutional pluralist thought within a given legal order, rather than from an unmoored and freestanding epistemic perspective. Finally, to offer an account of the interactions between legal orders in Europe that does not depend only on isolated cases of conflict between powerful actors (though these can be important), but also on the daily workings of constitutionalism, at the periphery as much as at the centre.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | constitutional pluralism; triangular constitutionalism; national constitutions; epistemology; integrity; indeterminacy |
Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2019 12:37 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:16 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21149 |