Penser l’État contre l’Europe. La genèse d’une orthodoxie juridique dans la République fédérale d’Allemagne de 1949 à l’arrêt Maastricht
(2019) Revue Francaise de Science Politique — Vol. 69, n° 1, p. 117-136 (2019)
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Majastre, Christophe 
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- (en) Taking as a point of departure a judgement By the German federal constitutional court on the Maastricht Treaty, this article deals with the condition under which a « counter-knowledge » on European integration was formalized. While they have so far received less attention than the justices at the European court of justice, the Justices from Karlsruhe appears nonetheless to possess a specific authority and influence on European politics. The so-called « Maastricht decision », in this respect, represents a canonical decision which many commentators have deemed hostile towards European integration. Distancing itself from this reading, this article shows that this decision can not be explained satisfyingly without taking into account the struggles between constitutional law scholars for the monopoly of constitutional interpretation. Based on the analysis of two distinct constitutional controversies – the one on German reunification and the one on the ratification of the Maastricht treaty, it provides evidence relative to the imposition by a specific group of scholars of the « State Law » as a dominant method of constitutional analysis.
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Majastre, C. (2019). Penser l’État contre l’Europe. La genèse d’une orthodoxie juridique dans la République fédérale d’Allemagne de 1949 à l’arrêt Maastricht. Revue Francaise de Science Politique, 69(1), 117-136. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfsp.691.0117#xd_co_f=MmE0M2ZjZjctOWZiYS00NTllLThjNzEtYTJlNmQzOTYwZTNk~ (Original work published 2019)