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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Recent Work by Turkuler Isiksel
DESCRIPTION:Constitutionalism has become a byword for legitimate governm
 ent\, but is it fated to lose its relevance as constitutional
  states relinquish power to international institutions? This
  book evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism\, as an
  empirical idea and normative ideal\, can be adapted to insti
 tutions beyond the state by surveying the sophisticated lega
 l and political system of the European Union. Having origina
 ted in a series of agreements between states\, the EU has acq
 uired important constitutional features like judicial review
 \, protections for individual rights\, and a hierarchy of norm
 s. Nonetheless\, it confounds traditional models of constitut
 ional rule to the extent that its claim to authority rests o
 n the promise of economic prosperity and technocratic compet
 ence rather than on the democratic will of citizens. Critica
 lly appraising the European Union and its legal system\, this
  book proposes the idea of 'functional constitutionalism' to
  describe this distinctive configuration of public power. Al
 though the EU is the most advanced instance of functional co
 nstitutionalism to date\, understanding this pragmatic mode o
 f constitutional authority is essential for assessing contem
 porary international economic governance.
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