The German Federal Constitutional Court as guardian of normative sovereignty in a complex European legal order. KU Leuven
The EU-legal order is a complex Legal order. Interactions and possible conflicts between its different components (EU-law in the strict sense, national constitutional law and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms/ECHR) make up for the dynamic nature of the EU-legal order, characterized by the simultaneous validity of different, partly overlapping constitutions. Constitutional courtsare among the ...