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1 EuConst 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/euroclv1 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 Preface Conception, development and birth of this journal roughly coincide with the same phases of the European Constitutional Treaty. No need to argue its time- liness. The ancient Greeks had a god for the right moment, Kairos. It may be owing to his genius that this journal, failing to materialize out of earlier at- tempts, can be launched just now.I What does need to be put forward here is the intended editorial character and formula of the European Constitutional Law Review. In our invitation to colleagues across the continent to sit in the Advisory Board and write a short piece, to which the acclaim was immediate, massive and committing (the result is this first issue's substance), we phrased the intention thus: In the tradition of the HOGENDORPcentre, the journal will follow the classical ap- proach of constitutionalism, to discuss EU law's developments as well as compara- tive public law of the member states, political and constitutional theory and history. This journal is, simply, meant to be a tribute to and a participant in the great Western constitutional tradition. The new European constitution provides its opportunity, not its exclusive subject. Like everything to which the adjective European is applied, this journal's name refers not just to such reality as has consolidated at a distinct European level (in Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg roughly, or in the Union's different national capitals). It includes things that we qualify as European on other counts. These may be values, forms or events that transcend the national level and are seen as common, or are part of reality shared. This is why comparative constitutional law is an important field of interest. Nor is European constitutional law a field of legal studies strictly. The con- stitution may be a matter of law; the law has no monopoly over its understand- ing. The constitution is a meeting place of different ingenuities. It is where power meets reason, law meets politics, interests meet justice, where past meets present and future. It is where logic meets history. And so on. In constitutional 1 Monique Trd6, Kairos. L'itpropos et I'occasion Paris 1992. European Constitutional Law Review, 1: 1-3, 2005 @ 2005 TM CAssER PRss and Contributors DOI: 101017/S1574019605000015

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