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Hybrid Governance Across National Jurisdictions as a Challenge to Constitutional Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Christoph Engel
Christoph Engel
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Director, Max Planck Project Group “Common Goods: Law, Politics and Economics”, Bonn.
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A technology often reaches perfection when its successor is already in place. Miraculously speedy and reliable punch card readers were finally available on the market when demand shifted to personal computers, to cite only one example. Do constitutions follow the same evolutionary pattern? Constitutional law, in general, and the doctrine of fundamental freedoms, in particular, are in admirable shape. Their dogmatics have been amply tested; they are elegant and rich. But they have been developed for the nation state. Yet governance reality is increasingly different. The state is competing with foreign, international and private governing authorities, or it is joining them in hybrid efforts. Will deconstitutionalisation ensue? Or will the existing constitutions be able to face, or even alter, the new reality?

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European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) , Volume 2 , Issue 3-4 , September 2001 , pp. 569 - 583
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2001

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