EU Law and National Constitutions: The Constitutional Dynamics of Multi-Level Governance (Comparative Constitutional Change)

This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analysing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective.The volume deals with questions of how EU member states’ constitutional systems, including the subnational tier, interact with the supranational level.It maps the evolution over time of constitutional strategies in the face of multi-level governance and individual contextual factors on an empirical basis.The volume comprises 12 national reports written by leading experts in constitutional and EU law, and in political science.The countries discussed include the six founding member states, together with a selection of member states in which a clear-cut evolution in the national constitutional approach towards the EU can be observed.These comprise the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.The latter is included as an “extreme” case in which the change in constitution