Our IMAGINE project (unofficially) started already in November 2018, at a conference kindly supported by iCourts and co-funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Dreyers Fund.

Conference volume will be published by the Oxford University Press in 2021.

Links to the videos from the conference (YouTube):

I.      CONSTITUTIONAL IMAGINARIES AND THE EU’S LEGITIMACY

Chair: Amnon Lev (University of Copenhagen)

• Paul Linden Retek (NYU/Yale): History, system, principle, analogy: Four imaginaries of European constitutionalism 
• Luuk van Middelaar (Leiden University): “Sovereign Europe”: the Return of History and the EU’s emancipation from its Utopian founding moments
• Claudia Schrag Sternberg (UCL): Ideologies and imaginaries legitimating the EU since the 1980s: shifts in EU-Official discourses against Rosanvallon’s Democratic Legitimacy

II.     EU CONSTITUTIONALISM: TOWARDS CRITICAL HISTORY

Chair: Hagen Schulz-Forberg (Aarhus University)

• Hugo Canihac (Saint-Louis University, Brussels) : “Not all legal problems can be solved legally”: N. McCormick’s constitutional pluralism in socio-historical context
• Agustín José Menéndez (University of León): Constitutionalisation without Democratic Constitutional Law: The Founding Paradox of European Law
• Morten Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen): EU constitutionalisation revisited – Redressing a central narrative in European studies (co-authored with Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen)

III.    DEMOCRATIC IMAGINARY

Chair: Hanne Petersen (University of Copenhagen)

• Marco Dani (University of Trento): Redressing European Constitutional Imagination
• Signe Larsen (LSE): EU Member-Statehood and the Many Faces of European Democracy
• Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford): The Peoples Imagined: Constituting a Demoicratic European Polity 

IV.   POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CAPITALISM

Chair: Poul Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School)

• Christian Joerges (Hertie School of Governance): From Integration through Law to the De-legalisation of Europe: an exercise in sociological jurisprudence and economic sociology
• Hjalte Lokdam (LSE): The Constitutionalization of Central Bank Independence in Question
• Michael Wilkinson (LSE): The New German Ideology? From a Crisis to a Critique of Post-Sovereignty

V.     TOWARDS NEW IMAGINARIES?

Chair: Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen)

• Mattias Kumm (WZB Berlin/NYU): Constitutionalism, Domination and the Political Imagination: Some remarks on Europe´s geostrategic situation 
• Jiří Přibáň (Cardiff University): Temporality of Constitutional Imaginaries: A European Perspective
• Damjan Kukovec (University of Middlesex): Constitutionalism and Social Hierarchy

VI.   FALSE MESSIAHS?

Chair: Antoni Abat Ninet (University of Copenhagen)

• Jan Komárek (University of Copenhagen): The Transformation of Europe’s constitutional imaginary
• Alexander Somek (University of Vienna): The False Messiah: Critical observations on J.H.H. Weiler’s most recent take on European integration
• Fernanda Nicola (Washington College of Law, American University): Critical Narratives of European Adjudication: Forms, Functions and Rhetoric