Much changed in European constitutional law after the Lisbon Treaty, not least the efforts to increase democratic legitimacy by engaging national legislatures and introducing a stricter subsidiary review process (namely the Early Warning Mechanism (EWM)). This collection looks at how national parliaments have adapted to their new roles and how the new system has impacted relations between the EU legislative bodies and these national parliaments. A team of experts from across Europe explore the effect of the EWM on the national constitutional orders, analyze the regional impact of EWM, and...

Now available in paperback, this book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various, and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of her work, Arendt nonetheless had interesting insights into Greek and Roman concepts of law, human rights, constitutional design, legislation, sovereignty, international tribunals, judicial review, and much more. The book retrieves these aspects of her legal philosophy,...