Abstract:
What is constitutional pluralism? What does it stand for? What does it want to achieve,
contribute, or change in the European integration? Is it a viable, desirable or perhaps
even an indispensable theoretical take on it? These were the leading questions discussed
in the Symposium “Four Visions of Constitutional Pluralism” at the European
University Institute in January of this year. Within the framework of the Legal Theory
Working Group and under the auspices of the Academy of European Law, the
organizers, Matej Avbelj and Jan Komarek, hosted four key scholars from the field of
the EU legal and constitutional theory. Julio Baquero Cruz, Mattias Kumm, Miguel
Poiares Maduro, and Neil Walker engaged in a groundbreaking three-hour discussion of
their respective theoretical visions of the European integration. This working paper
contains a full transcript of the Symposium.
