The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law, Volume II: Constitutional Foundations (eBook)

This edited volume reports the antecedents, foundations, organization, basic principles, and challenges to fourteen European constitutions. They include countries with long-lasting and recently amended constitutions, decentralized or unitary, with different political systems and institutional settings.

• An in-depth appraisal of the history and evolution of the constitutions of European states, written by leading scholars from the respective countries, following common parameters
• Offers an understanding of the intersection between domestic constitutional identities and European law and identity
• Presents a comparative appraisal of the constitutional foundations, structures, and basic principles of the European Legal Space