Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1263: Multilevel Constitutionalism: European Experiences and Global Perspectives
Subject Area
Jurisprudence
Term
from 2006 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 968710
The Research Training Group analyses the prospective role of law and constitutionalism at the global level against the background of European experiences. It provides a framework of research for a group of carefully selected young researchers for debate among each other and with highly qualified academics or practitioners. The integration of historians and political scientists complements the legal focus of the Research Training Group. The European and international orientation of the group mandated by the research topic are realised through close cooperation with international partners, the German participants' obligatory research component abroad and the integration of up to one third of researchers with a non-German academic background.
The Research Training Group establishes an academic discourse, which combines the experience of senior experts with the academic creativity of doctoral students on themes such as constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, history, European and international law, state theory and governance theories. The underlying and overarching topic are the legal consequences of the increased interdependence and interaction of our societies in the era of globalisation, the function of the law as an instrument to preserve peace among humans, nations and states. The construction of the European Union as a community based on the rule of law poses the question whether and to what extent Europe's conceptual basis of integration through law may be transposed to the global level: Europe may be the model or the counterpoint to the evolution of the international legal order. The central function of states as a central organising feature persists in the global system of governance, but may be subject to changes in the light of the model of "multilevel constitutionalism" or other new conceptual approaches.
The research programme is integrated in an ambitious calendar of events to impart practical and linguistic skills and for the discussion of methodology and substantive issues. Members of civil society and senior civil servants of public institutions in Germany, of the EU and the UN accompany the progress of the young researchers within the framework of the dialogue of academia and practice.
The Research Training Group establishes an academic discourse, which combines the experience of senior experts with the academic creativity of doctoral students on themes such as constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, history, European and international law, state theory and governance theories. The underlying and overarching topic are the legal consequences of the increased interdependence and interaction of our societies in the era of globalisation, the function of the law as an instrument to preserve peace among humans, nations and states. The construction of the European Union as a community based on the rule of law poses the question whether and to what extent Europe's conceptual basis of integration through law may be transposed to the global level: Europe may be the model or the counterpoint to the evolution of the international legal order. The central function of states as a central organising feature persists in the global system of governance, but may be subject to changes in the light of the model of "multilevel constitutionalism" or other new conceptual approaches.
The research programme is integrated in an ambitious calendar of events to impart practical and linguistic skills and for the discussion of methodology and substantive issues. Members of civil society and senior civil servants of public institutions in Germany, of the EU and the UN accompany the progress of the young researchers within the framework of the dialogue of academia and practice.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Ingolf Pernice
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Susanne Baer; Professorin Dr. Tanja A. Börzel; Professor Dr. Stefan Grundmann; Professorin Dr. Rahel Jaeggi; Professorin Dr. Gabriele Metzler; Professor Dr. Christoph Möllers; Professor Dr. Georg Nolte; Professor Dr. Christoph Paulus; Professor Dr. Daniel Thym; Professor Dr. Gerhard Werle
