Gabriele De Angelis is a researcher in political theory at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his first PhD at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and his second at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Before taking on his current position he has worked at the University of Pisa as a teaching fellow. After focusing his research activities on the social theory of J. Habermas and N. Luhmann he devoted himself to the study of European political institutions, paying particular attention to the European Parliament.Paulo Barcelos is a PhD candidate and a lecturer at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Language. His research activities focus on contemporary political theory, with particular attention to the debates concerning globalization, global distributive justice and transnational democracy.

• Contents: Gabriele De Angelis: Constitutionalising the EU. A Story of the Past? – Paulo Barcelos: Vitangelo Moscarda’s Syndrome. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Constitutionalization – Emma De Angelis: The European Identity in the Proceedings of the European Parliament. Cultural Frames and Political Processes – Gabriele De Angelis: Enhancing Fundamental Rights Control in Europe. The European Parliament’s Scrutiny of Member States – Justus Schönlau: Multi-Level Rights Protection in the European Union. The Sub-national Dimension – Giovanni Damele: Legal Certainty in Europe. Legal Pluralism and Argumentative Practices of the European Court of Justice – Teresa Bravo: The Unbearable Lightness of Fundamental Rights in the European Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice – Teresa Violante: Judicial Function in Context: Contextualising judicial activism in the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.

Gabriele De Angelis is a researcher in political theory at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his first PhD at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and his second at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Before taking on his current position he has worked at the University of Pisa as a teaching fellow. After focusing his research activities on the social theory of J. Habermas and N. Luhmann he devoted himself to the study of European political institutions, paying particular attention to the European Parliament.Paulo Barcelos is a PhD candidate and a lecturer at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Language. His research activities focus on contemporary political theory, with particular attention to the debates concerning globalization, global distributive justice and transnational democracy.

• Contents: Gabriele De Angelis: Constitutionalising the EU. A Story of the Past? – Paulo Barcelos: Vitangelo Moscarda’s Syndrome. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Constitutionalization – Emma De Angelis: The European Identity in the Proceedings of the European Parliament. Cultural Frames and Political Processes – Gabriele De Angelis: Enhancing Fundamental Rights Control in Europe. The European Parliament’s Scrutiny of Member States – Justus Schönlau: Multi-Level Rights Protection in the European Union. The Sub-national Dimension – Giovanni Damele: Legal Certainty in Europe. Legal Pluralism and Argumentative Practices of the European Court of Justice – Teresa Bravo: The Unbearable Lightness of Fundamental Rights in the European Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice – Teresa Violante: Judicial Function in Context: Contextualising judicial activism in the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.

Gabriele De Angelis is a researcher in political theory at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his first PhD at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and his second at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Before taking on his current position he has worked at the University of Pisa as a teaching fellow. After focusing his research activities on the social theory of J. Habermas and N. Luhmann he devoted himself to the study of European political institutions, paying particular attention to the European Parliament.Paulo Barcelos is a PhD candidate and a lecturer at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Language. His research activities focus on contemporary political theory, with particular attention to the debates concerning globalization, global distributive justice and transnational democracy.

• Contents: Gabriele De Angelis: Constitutionalising the EU. A Story of the Past? – Paulo Barcelos: Vitangelo Moscarda’s Syndrome. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Constitutionalization – Emma De Angelis: The European Identity in the Proceedings of the European Parliament. Cultural Frames and Political Processes – Gabriele De Angelis: Enhancing Fundamental Rights Control in Europe. The European Parliament’s Scrutiny of Member States – Justus Schönlau: Multi-Level Rights Protection in the European Union. The Sub-national Dimension – Giovanni Damele: Legal Certainty in Europe. Legal Pluralism and Argumentative Practices of the European Court of Justice – Teresa Bravo: The Unbearable Lightness of Fundamental Rights in the European Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice – Teresa Violante: Judicial Function in Context: Contextualising judicial activism in the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.