This article pursues re-constructive and explanatory objectives which are embedded in a theoretical and normative agenda. The introduction specifies its beginnings including

biographical notes. The following conceptual history of the law of the integration project distinguishes three stages in which three distinct varieties of economic [...]

Christian Joerges is a scholar whose work spills over the conventional boundaries between public and private law, social science and legal theory, law and public policy, empirical

inquiry and normative philosophy. This essay brings into focus Joerges’s under-appreciated role as a prescient, critical intellectual biographer of European integration. [...]

The core of the contract between economic and monetary union is set in not so much the formally legal, if economically irrational and practically contentious, divide of the

Treaties, but rather, the rules for governing the right balance of EMU are found in its economic governance framework, set up to condition national budgetary policies [...]

Few issues remain as fraught as the relationship between European integration and national welfare states. For too long, Social Europe was an afterthought, relegated to the

soft domain of the open method of coordination, while the formation of the single market proceeded with the full force of European law and institutions. [...]

Why should one expand Christian Joerges’s pioneering concept of ‘Europe’s conflicts-law constitution’? The European constitution should consistently incorporate the

double plurality of Europe because, for centuries, Europe has been governed by two powerful pluralities that are orthogonal to each other, but at the same time closely [...]

In this essay, I reflect on the evolving role of the European Union (EU) as a global regulatory state against the backdrop of Christian Joerges’s influential work on European

constitutionalism. Engaging with Joerges’s intellectual oeuvre represents a personal moment in my academic journey, having come of age as a scholar under his guidance [...]

How does ‘Europe’ cope with its dark past and how does it handle its internal conflicts and contradictions? This is the question at the heart of Christian Joerges’s 600-page

opus magnum Conflict and Transformation – Essays on European Law and Policy where he advances his reconceptualization of EU law as a particular form of conflicts [...]

This review essay forms a contribution to the Dialogue & Debate symposium on Christian Joerges’s volume Conflict and Transformation (Hart 2022). The specific angle of this

article is an interdisciplinary one that conceives of Joerges’s work as a boundary-crossing exercise between law and the social sciences. [...]

Written by Agnieszka Widuto. Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising many sectors of the economy, including the energy sector. The exponential growth of data centres

around the world and in Europe is driving up electricity demand, raising questions about its impact on existing infrastructure and on sustainability. [...]