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»Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Federalism - On Doctrine in Law and Literature. Instrumental Federalism in the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany as a Lyrical Figure of Reading«: In American and German federalism, courts assertively deploy topoi such as ›state dignity‹ or ›Bundestreu‹' which are not laid down in the constitutional texts. The comparative study scrutinizes these ›unwritten‹ doctrines as examples of activist judicial constitutionalism. The topoi revolve around anthropomorphic, ›lyrical‹ notions of ›dignity‹ and ›fidelity‹. Building on deconstruction in literary criticism, the book analyzes the force of anthropomorphic doctrine in law and literature.

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The book adresses the question how the concept of national identity in EU law relates to federalism and how potential conflicts between EU law and a Member States' federal organisation are resolved. Building on a thorough analysis of Art. 4 para. 2 TEU, three legal systems (Austria, Belgium, Germany) are examined on the basis of a uniform analytical grid in order to identify their respective federal national identities. These are then contrasted with Union law in order to identify potential conflicts, in areas such as fundamental rights and freedoms and state aid law.

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