Prague Constitutional Seminar Series: Hugo Canihac

Prague Constitutional Seminar Series: Hugo Canihac

Katedra ústavního práva zve na seminář Prague Constitutional Seminar Series a IMPURE s Hugo Canihacem (Sciences Po Strasbourg), který se uskuteční v úterý dne 21. dubna od 16:00 v místnosti č. 117. Dr Canihac vystoupí s příspěvkem na téma Post-Sovereign Imaginaries in the History of European Political and Legal Thought, resp. kapitolou své knihy Legal and Political Thinking Against Sovereignty.

Akce se uskuteční v anglickém jazyce. 

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Bio 

Hugo Canihac is an Associate professor of political science at Sciences Po Strasbourg. He studied political science and philosophy in Bordeaux, where he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the historical sociology of European integration. He was then a post-doctoral fellow in Hamburg and Brussels and has been a visiting researcher at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin and at the Historical Archives of European Integration in Florence. His research focuses on the political sociology of European integration, the sociology of economic and legal knowledge, historical sociology and the social history of ideas.

Book abstract

This book traces the emergence and transformation of the ‘post-sovereign thesis’ – an argument that seeks to move beyond the routine opposition between states and European organization, by claiming the concept of sovereignty to be obsolete – and its complicated relationship with liberalism. Analyzing the thought of a series of constitutional thinkers who have developed different versions of this thesis in relation to European integration, the book shows that, far from being new, as is generally assumed, the post-sovereign thesis goes back to the late nineteenth century. Exploring the interplay of these thinkers’ critical conceptualizations of sovereignty and of their views on liberalism, the book argues that, although they shared a concern for the transformation of a world seen as increasingly interdependent, they imagined deeply different versions of post-sovereignty. Bringing this history into focus, it offers a rich new perspective on contemporary debates about the EU, European sovereignty and the possibilities of global constitutionalism. This book will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of EU and constitutional law, legal history and the history of political thought, as well as others with relevant interests working in political science.