Presents a critical outline and comparison of selected EU Member State constitutional identities in the context of EU multilevel constitutionalism.

With a focus on how national identity impacts the decision-making of the European Court of Justice, Elke Cloots provides an innovative adjudication scheme that

Over the past few years, 'national constitutional identity' has become the new buzzword in European constitutionalism. Much has been written about the concept i

"Argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience--from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation's past and th

This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of n