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Eric Stein
No full textEric Stein was one of the wisest, shrewdest, most broadly knowledgeable, and most benign human beings I have ever known. Since others can speak more authoritatively about Eric\u27s scholarship and his contributions to international law, I am going to concentrate on him personally and on his relationships with his Michigan Law School colleagues
Eric Stein
No full textEric Stein was one of the wisest, shrewdest, most broadly knowledgeable, and most benign human beings I have ever known. Since others can speak more authoritatively about Eric\u27s scholarship and his contributions to international law, I am going to concentrate on him personally and on his relationships with his Michigan Law School colleagues
In Celebration of Eric Stein 1913-2011
Full text linkProgram for a memorial service in honor of Eric Stein
Eric Stein (1913-2011)
No full textOn July 28,2011, Eric Stein, pillar of international law, pioneer of the legal study of European integration, and master of comparative law, passed away in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was ninety-eight years old. He joined this Journal\u27s Board of Editors in 1963, serving as a regular member until 1978, and thereafter as an honorary editor. Stein was the last of that great generation of European-educated jurists who fled Nazism and became leading figures in comparative and international law in the United States
The Right to Vote for Non-citizens in the European Multilevel System of Fundamental Rights Protection: A case study in inconsistency?
Full text linkThe paper analyses the issue of voting rights for non-citizens in the European legal space. Its purpose is to outline the inconsistencies that characterize the European multilevel system of fundamental rights protection and to assess whether the transformations that are taking place both in the law on the books and the law in action hold the potential for overcoming these problems. The paper will maintain that the overlap of three sets of norms and institutions for the protection of fundamental rights creates tensions and paradoxes in the field of voting rights and participation in political life for non-citizens. In addition, it will be argued that the legislative and judicial transformations that are taking place in the European human rights architecture show only limited capacity to address these problems. On the other hand, however, the paper claims that the European experience is by no way unique and rather finds similarities in the history of electoral rights and citizenship in the US constitutional system. Drawing on a comparison with the US experience, therefore, the paper will attempt to advance several legislative proposals to reform the European legal architecture by identifying measures which could be adopted de jure condendo to redress the current state of affairs
Memory of Eric Stein
Full text linkMy memory of Eric Stein is of a teacher and mentor rather than a colleague. I will leave to others more qualified than I to describe his major contributions to the academic literature and teaching of European Community and public international law. When I entered Michigan Law School as a student in 1980, Eric had technically retired or at least transitioned to emeritus status. I say he had technically retired because his commitment to the law school community as a writer, teacher, and mentor to students never appeared to diminish. He still taught a number of classes and seminars, wrote extensively, and was more than generous with the time he spent with young law students like myself who professed an interest in international law
Joseph Weiler, Eric Stein, and the Transformation of Constitutional Law
No full textThis chapter pursues that idea in three parts. Part I reviews the key contributions of The Transformation of Europe. Part II takes us back for a critical analysis of the idea of ‘constitutionalism’ as first developed by Eric Stein and then deployed by Joseph Weiler. On closer inspection, we shall see here that The Transformation of Europe may have neglected a core element of constitutional law, something this chapter terms a ‘generative space’ for law and politics. As this part further explains, recognising this generative element of constitutionalism lies at the heart of the struggle to make sense both practically and conceptually of European integration to this day. Part III then briefly outlines an emerging response to this challenge, and relates this response more broadly to the transformation of constitutional law
Joseph Weiler, Eric Stein, and the Transformation of Constitutional Law
Full text linkThis chapter pursues that idea in three parts. Part I reviews the key contributions of The Transformation of Europe. Part II takes us back for a critical analysis of the idea of ‘constitutionalism’ as first developed by Eric Stein and then deployed by Joseph Weiler. On closer inspection, we shall see here that The Transformation of Europe may have neglected a core element of constitutional law, something this chapter terms a ‘generative space’ for law and politics. As this part further explains, recognising this generative element of constitutionalism lies at the heart of the struggle to make sense both practically and conceptually of European integration to this day. Part III then briefly outlines an emerging response to this challenge, and relates this response more broadly to the transformation of constitutional law
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