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Constitutionalism and Governance Beyond the State
Jo Shaw, Manchester University and Antje Wiener, Queen's University, Belfast

Meeting 1: Constitutionalism and Constitutive Policies Beyond the State.  Belfast, 19-20 May 2000
Meeting 2: Towards a Constitutional Finality in the EU? Leeds, March 24 2001
Meeting 3: Evolving Norms of Constitutionalism, Belfast, February 16 2002

The third and final workshop of the Study Group keeps with the interdisciplinary approach to constitutionalism.  It brings together lawyers, political scientists and sociologists.  Presenters and commentators involve Study Group members from the UK, as well as guests from the UK, Germany, and Japan.  After a first workshop on policy and analytical perspectives on constitutionalism, and a second workshop on constitutional principles, this workshop discusses advanced papers on evolving norms, commented by experts in the field.

On-line papers are available by visiting: www.qub.ac.uk/pisp/Research/PaperSeries/ConWEBPapers/

Interested participants at the final workshop should please contact:  Antje Wiener a.wiener@qub.ac.uk.  Slots are limited and assigned on a first coe first served basis.   Participation is free.

For further details on the Study Group please also contact Jo Shaw jo.shaw@ed.ac.uk

Background to the Study Group
The substantive aim of the group is to develop a multidisciplinary study of constitutionalism and governance in Europe. The object of study is not just the EU itself – but other actual or potential sites of constitutionalism, including developments within and across states and other organisations. Constitutionalism represents a terrain across which lawyers, political scientists and political theorists can converse fruitfully, discussing both the institutional and normative questions which are raised by the process of European integration. The members of the study group will bring to it backgrounds in theoretical frameworks such as constructivist approaches to European governance; sociological perspectives on institutions and law; political theory as well as procedural/deliberative theories of law.

The study group will be run by its organisers and a core group of about 20 people will participate in the project over two years. The core group will operate rather like the membership of an ESRC seminar series. The study group will not be closed, and participation is invited from interested colleagues and, especially, postgraduate students. However, participation will imply certain commitments such as:

- attending study group meetings, to submit work-in-progress for discussion
- offering comments on the work of others
- participating in the ‘virtual study group’ through the dedicated website at Queen’s University,
- contributing to the preparation and completion of the study group outputs.

Travel funding to attend all workshops cannot be guaranteed for participants in the core group, but workshop charges will be waived. In addition, ‘guest’ speakers will be invited to participate in specific workshops, offering complementary insights. The focus will be on inviting visitors from outside the UK, subject to the availability of complementary funding. Three main workshops are planned; they will be held in May 2000, Spring 2001 and October/November 2001. The first workshop has taken place on 19-20 May 2000, hosted by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Institute of European Studies, Queens University Belfast and a second is planned to take place in the Dept of Law at the University of Leeds on 24 March 2001.

For further general information on this Study Group, please contact co-organisers: Dr Antje Wiener, Queen's University Belfast, a.wiener@qub.ac.uk  and Prof. Jo Shaw (formerly of University of Manchester, now at Edinburgh: jo.shaw@ed.ac.uk).    Please also consult the  website  at www.qub.ac.uk/pisp/Research/PaperSeries/ConWEBPapers/

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