Welcome to our Reading Group!
In autumn 2022, we will be reading an evergreen of European
Constitutional Law, Joseph Weiler’s “The Constitution of Europe: Do the new clothes
have an emperor? and other essays on European integration”. As a student of
MUNI, you can find a scanned version of this book in e-loan (e-prezenčka): https://katalog.muni.cz/Record/MUB01000172840
Here comes the preliminary syllabus:
19/9 Introduction: “We will do, and hearken”
26/9 The transformation of Europe, parts 1+2
3/10 The transformation of Europe, parts 3+4
10/10 Fundamental rights and fundamental boundaries
17/10 The external legal relations of non-unitary
actors
24/10 The least dangerous branch (ECJ)
31/10 Part I: wrap-up and more sources
7/11 The reformation of European constitutionalism
14/11 Fin-de-siecle Europe: do the new clothes have
an emperor?
21/11 European democracy and its critics: polity
and system
28/11 The autonomy of the Community legal order
5/12 To be a European citizen: Eros and
civilization
12/12 Part II: wrap-up and more sources
It is also very likely we will have an online meeting with the author around mid-December to ask him questions and to discuss the book, after we have read it. Details will follow in due time.
Looking forward to reading together!