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4 Eur. L. Open 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/eurlwop4 and id is 1 raw text is: European Law Open (2025), 4, 1-6 CAMBRIDGE doi:10.1017/elo.2025.13 UNIVERSITY PRESS DWALOGUE AND DEBATE: SYMPOSIUM ON LAW, CONFLICT AND TRANSFORMAION -NE WORK OF CHRISTIAN JOERGESK Law, conflict and transforrnation: debating European law and policy Anna Beckers1 and Vladimir Bogoeski2. 'Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands and 2University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Corresponding author: Vladimir Bogoeski; Email: v.bogoeski@uva.nl (Received 5 February 2025; accepted 20 February 2025) Keywords: EU Law; conflicts-law constitutionalism; Economic Constitution; Christian Joerges European law is at a critical turning moment, both internally within the Union and externally with respect to its place in the world. Following major global and EU crises and conflicts, the place of the EU and its law becomes increasingly debated, contested and reconfigured. This may be a good moment to reflect, revisit and debate the fundamental theoretical concepts that have shaped the discourse around EU law, to investigate their legacy and their relevance and validity for today's changing legal and policy landscape. This symposium centres on Christian Joerges's work on conflicts-law constitutionalism, recently compiled in the book 'Conflict and Transformation'.1 Our aim is to spark discussion on the critical notions and concepts that shaped a pivotal period in European law and to explore how they might contribute to current debates about the role of the EU, Europe, and its legal and policy frameworks both internally and in the global setting. The contributions are taking two distinct perspectives. First, they explore what is the intellectual, political and legal legacy of the theoretical approach imagining European laws as conflict of laws, and how this conceptual apparatus can and should be used to understand current conflicts within the EU. Second, how can conflicts-law constitutionalism help understand the future and, specifically, the role of the EU in an ever-more differentiated and fragmented world in which conflicts play a central role? L The legacy of conflicts-Iaw constitutionalisrn within Europe Christian Joerges's idea of conflicts-law constitutionalism developed at a particular time and within a particular conflicting space in the EU. It was a proposal made against the background of an experienced 'dark history' in Europe and was developed in the particular intellectual context of the 1960s.2 It rests on earlier, quite revolutionary, new approaches to private international law, ie, Rudolf Wieth6lter's proposal to view conflict of laws beyond the technical confines of private 1C Joerges, Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy (Hart Publishing 2023). 2For a broader context, see C Joerges and NS Ghaleigh (eds), Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its Legal Traditions (Hart Publishing 2003). © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.

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