Research Catalog

Title

Towards a European constitution : a historical and political comparison with the United States / Michael Gehler ... [et al.] (eds.).

Publication

Wien : Böhlau, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Gehler, Michael.

Description

568 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Europapolitische Reihe des Herbert-Batliner-Europainstitutes ; Bd. 3

Uniform Title

Europapolitische Reihe (DDr. Herbert Batliner Europainstitut, Forschungsinstitut für Europäische Politik und Geschichte) ; Bd. 3.

Subject

• Constitutional history > United States
• Constitutional law > European Union countries
• Constitutions > European Union countries

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Innsbruck (2003)
• Kongress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 'Floundering fathers" versus 'founding fathers'? Comparative aspects of constitutionalizing EU-Europe and the United States / Michael Gehler, Günter Bischof -- A constitution for Europe / Reinhard Rack, Daniela Fraiss -- European historical legacies. Human rights and international law in Europe and the United States / Wolfgang Schmale -- Globalization and European constitutionalism / Ludger Kühnhardt -- United States historical legacies. Miracle at Philadelphia : the drafting of the American constitution of 1787 / James H. Hutson -- The evolution of federalism in the United States : a continuing convention? / Mark Tushnet -- The European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court : comparable institutions? / Marcus Höreth -- Die USA und die Integration Europas : vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart / Rolf Steininger -- American empire and its discontents : the United States and Europe today / Günter Bischof --^
• Elements of a future European constitution. Elements of continuity and innovation in the constitutional debate / Heinrich Schneider -- The institutionalization of European political party networks : Europeanization vs. Americanization? / Peter Zervakis -- Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte und seine Bedeutung mit Blick auf eine Europäische Grundrechtscharta / Franz Matscher -- Die Grundrechtscharta und der Grundrechtskonvent (1999-2000) : analyse und vergleichender Rückblick auf die Verfassungsentwicklung in den USA (1787-1791) / Simon Gruber -- Towards a European constitution? The European Convention on Human Rights and its implementation / Walter Schwimmer -- A minority charter? Opportunities for and perspectives on the protection of minorities / Markus Warasin -- "Power in the hands of the greatest number"? Gender perspectives on the European Convention and the draft constitution / Sieglinde Rosenberger --^
• Towards a comprehensive European security union / Gunther Hauser -- The convention : history and results. From a treaty to a constitutional community? The long path toward the "Convention on the future of the European Union" 1918-2003 / Michael Gehler -- Constitutional aspects of European monetary integration in historical perspective / Guido Thiemeyer -- Asian perception of EU constitutional reform processes : a European dream search approach / Hungdah Su -- Irish and U.S. media coverage of the European constitutional debate / Georg Diwald -- Der Weg zur politischen Einigung über die Europäische Verfassung unter den irischen Ratspräsidentschaft / Gerhard Zettl.

ISBN

3205773594 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005458033

OCLC

• 60800935
• SCSB-10100720

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library