The triangular constitution : constitutional pluralism in ireland, the EU and the ECHR / Tom Flynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flynn, Tom (Thomas Joseph Sheridan), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950 November 5).

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Constitutional law--Ireland.

Constitutional law.

International and municipal law--Ireland.

International and municipal law.

Law--Ireland--European influences.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"This book offers a new account of modern European constitutionalism. It uses the Irish constitutional order to demonstrate that, right across the European Union, the national constitution can no longer be understood on its own, in isolation from the EU legal order or from the European Convention on Human Rights. The constitution is instead triangular, with these three legal orders forming the points of a triangle, and the relationship and interactions between them forming the triangle's sides. It takes as its starting point the theory of constitutional pluralism, which suggests that overlapping constitutional orders are not necessarily arranged 'on top of' each other, but that they may be arranged heterarchically or flatly, without a hierarchy of superior and subordinate constitutions. However, it departs from conventional accounts of this theory by emphasising that we must still pay close attention to jurisdictional specificity in order to understand the norms that regulate pluralist constitutions. It shows, through application of the theory to case studies, that any attempt to extract universal principles from the jurisdictionally contingent interactions between specific legal orders is fraught with difficulty. The book is an important contribution to constitutional theory in general, and constitutional pluralism in particular, and will be of great interest to scholars in the field."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1. European Constitutional Pluralism and the Triangular Constitution

I. Constitutional Pluralism's Origins in the EU

II. The Constitutional Pluralists and the Critics

III. Metaconstitutional Pluralisms

IV. Two Problems of Metaconstitutional Pluralism

V. Triangular Constitutionalism

2. The Vertical Frame

I. The Terms of Engagement Between Irish Law and EU Law

II. The Irish Legal Order and the European Convention on Human Rights

3. The Horizontal Frame

I. The Pre-Accession Terms of Engagement Between the EU and the ECHR

II. The Draft Accession Agreement and Opinion 2

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III. Labour Rights and Constitutional Conflict

4. The Triangular Frame

I. Avoidance, Engagement and Conditional Recognition

II. Polyarchic Deliberation

III. The Nature of the Relationships and the Universality of Interface Norms

5. Towards Triangular Constitutionalism: Universalising the Triangular Constitution

I. The Triangular Constitution Assessed

II. From the Particular to the Universal.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509916191

1509916199

9781509916177

1509916172

OCLC:

1083152084