European Constitutionalism

Kaarlo Tuori is Professor of Jurisprudence and Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki. He is formerly vice president of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and serves as a consulting expert on the Constitutional Law Committee at the Finnish Parliament.

'… thought-provoking, striking … indispensable … Tuori's European Constitutionalism is an inevitable read for every scholar engaging in the debate on the constitution of the polity EU.' Paulina J. Starski, Yearbook of European Law

• Prologue; Part I. General Characteristics: 1. Relationality; 2. Interlude: the framing juridical constitution; 3. Perspectivism; 4. Discursiveness; Part II. Sectoral Constitutionalization: 5. The triumph of the microeconomic constitution; 6. Mutation of the macroeconomic constitution; 7. The European social constitution: between solidarity and access justice; 8. The insecure security constitution; Epilogue.