Focusing on paradoxes and tensions of European legal integration, this book investigates four complex and inherently contradictory processes - constitutionalization and democratization, institution-building and market-making, cross-cultural communication and European discourse, and cultural exceptionalism and normalization - to offer a new framework for understanding contemporary European integration. The volume features contributions from some of the biggest names in European legal philosophy, to include Neil MacCormick, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth, Pierre Legrand, Heikki Mattila and David Nelken. It presents a timely, interdisciplinary approach to an important and topical area and will be of interest to those concerned with the place of socio-legal processes, language and culture in the continuous advancement of the EU project.
Author Biography:
Hanne Petersen is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a former Jean Monnet Scholar at the European University Institute. Anne Lise Kjaer is Senior Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen. She has been a visiting academic at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg and at the Institut fur Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. Helle Krunke is Associate Professor of Law, University of Copenhagen. She has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and a visiting academic at the University of Bristol, UK. Mikael Rask Madsen, is Senior Research Fellow & Executive Director, Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, University of Copenhagen, and an associate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Mikael Rask Madsen, Anne Lise Kjaer, Helle Krunke, Hanne Petersen, Neil MacCormick, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Henning Koch, Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth, Inger-Johanne Sand, Antonin Cohen, Antoine Vauchez, William Twining, Pierre Legrand, Edda WeigandKjell A. Modeer, David Nelken, Ditlev Tamm.
