"Constitutional Identity in Europe: Between recognition and conflict"

Panel Talk Christoph Burchard, Anuscheh Farahat, Stefan Kadelbach und Liav Orgad

Apr 26th, 2018

On 24 April the Panel discussion "Constitutional Identity in Europe" which was organized by our project took place at Goethe University Frankfurt. Christoph Burchard, Anuscheh Farahat, Stefan Kadelbach and Liav Orgad contextualized the legal concept of constitutional identity with the political quest of national identity semantics. They addressed the risks as well as the opportunities for the European polity associated with the concept. This is because the demarcation lines between European law and national constitutional law, which are drawn by recourses to an inalienable constitutional identity, not only raise questions of power and not only function as swords and shields within a pluralistic legal space. They have the potential to become joint reference points, which allows for a case-by-case adjustment.