Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLE OF CASES; I Court of Justice of the European Union and General Court: Numerical Order; II Court of Justice of the European Union and General Court: Alphabetical Order; III European Court of Human Rights: Numerical Order; IV European Court of Human Rights: Alphabetical Order; V National Cases; Introduction; I The context of the book; II The specific contribution of this book; III The structure and common threads of the chapters; IV Common findings and open questions
PART I European economic and social constitutionalism between norms and practices1 Re-embedding economic and social constitutionalism: Normative perspectives for the EU; I Introduction; II Towards a societal perspective on European integration; A The notion of European integration; B State-centred perspectives on European integration; C Societal perspectives on European integration; D Focus on the interplay between societal actors of European integration; III Economic and social dimensions of European integration; A Economic dimensions; B Social dimensions
C Interrelation of economic and social dimensions of European integrationIV EU constitutionalism -- socially embedded rights?; A Constitutions -- within states; B EU constitutionalism beyond states; V Conclusion: European economic and social constitutionalism after the Treaty of Lisbon; 2 Reconciling market with Social Europe? The EU under the Lisbon Treaty; I Introduction; II What is in the Lisbon Treaty for reconciling Market and Social Europe?; A Balancing social and economic dimensions of European integration; B Resolving collective-action problems: how inter-institutional relations matter
C Re-constituting the EU's social constituencies: Union citizenship and fundamental rightsD Summary; III Probing Lisbon Treaty rules in practice: contestations and propositions; A Social and economic welfare issues in political science and normative debate; B Coping with social and economic welfare dilemmas through multilayered polycentric self-governance: realist assumptions; C Reconciling Market with Social Europe: five sets of propositions; IV Conclusions; 3 Constitutionalism between normative frameworks and the socio-legal frameworks of societies; I Introduction
II Between the Single Market and Social EuropeIII Polanyi in Brussels? Transnational embedding of markets; IV Transnational disembedding of markets? Laval and Viking; A The Laval case; B The Viking case; V Concluding remarks; 4 Observations on economic governance and the search for a European economic constitution; I Introduction; II From ordoliberalism to economic constitutional law to economic constitution; III Components of an economic constitution; A Values; B Fundamental rights and balancing procedures; C Division of competences; D Other components of an economic constitution
Summary
An analysis of the impact of EU law on socio-economic realities from different disciplinary perspectives
