Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies

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Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies (DTIEV)
Category: Institute
Carrier: Distance University in Hagen
Consist: since 2003
Seat of the wearer: Hagen
Facility location: Villa Bechem
Feithstrasse 152
58097 Hagen
Arose from: Institute for European Constitutional Studies
Type of research: Scientific research in the field of constitutional science
Subjects: Law, Politics and History
Management: Andreas Haratsch
Employee: Anne Christine Nagel , Hans-Rüdiger Schmidt, Ingrid Piela, Gabriele Goetz
Homepage: www.fernuni-hagen.de/dtiev/index.shtml
Villa Bechem, seat of the DTIEV

The Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies (DTIEV) is a joint academic institution of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences at the FernUniversität in Hagen . The institution founded in April 2003 as the “Institute for European Constitutional Studies (IEV)” was named after him in April 2010 after the death of the initiator, founding member and later honorary director of the IEV, the Greek lawyer Dimitris Tsatsos .

tasks

The interdisciplinary institute is supported by law , political science and history at the FernUniversität Hagen. Its task is to accompany the integrative constitutional development of Europe in an interdisciplinary manner. The DTIEV is used for scientific research in the field of constitutional sciences. It is intended to examine the historical and current development of national and European constitutional law , to analyze constitutional approaches in theory and practice in a comparative way and to develop solutions for practical constitutional problems. The aim is to establish contact between science and politics. The results of the research are incorporated into teaching at the Distance University in Hagen.

The tasks set by the DTIEV include:

  • Documentation and evaluation of the historical, political and legal sources of the constitutional orders in Europe;
  • Documentation of the history of a European constitution and its implementation efforts;
  • Comparative research on the origin, status, effects and rhetoric of national and European constitutional law;
  • Contribution to the development of the European constitutional discussion through own publications;
  • Promotion of the internal scientific exchange and the exchange with practice.

The DTIEV aims to collaborate with other national and international research institutions within the scope of its tasks. It is represented in the European Constitutional Law Network (ECLN).

Board of Directors, Board of Directors and Board of Trustees

The institute is managed by a board of directors, a board of directors and a board of trustees. The constitutional lawyer Andreas Haratsch (Hagen) has been the director since December 2017 . The founding director was the historian Peter Brandt (Hagen / Berlin) from 2003 to 2017 and has been honorary director since then. Deputy director has been Peter Schiffauer (Hagen / Breslau) since 2017 .

In addition to the board members, the board includes the political scientists Arthur Benz (Darmstadt) and Viktoria Kaina (Hagen), the lawyers Jörg Ennuschat and Stefan Huster (both Bochum), the historians Ewald Grothe (Wuppertal) and Arthur Schlegelmilch (Hagen) and a total of three representatives of employees and students.

The board of trustees includes almost thirty scientists and politicians. In the past they included Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Peter Glotz and Guido Westerwelle . The chairman of the board of trustees is Christine Landfried (Hamburg); their deputies are Ulrich Battis (Berlin) and Manfred Stelzer (Vienna).

Events and publications

The institute organizes a series of lectures and symposia.

The symposia have so far had the following topics:

  • 2019: Europe threatened internally and externally?
  • 2018: Constitutional Moments
  • 2016: European governance in crisis
  • 2014: Parliamentarization and deparliamentarization of constitutional systems
  • 2013: Constitution and Crisis
  • 2012: Constitutionalism in Europe. Development and interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • 2011: Constitution - Parties - Basic Union
  • 2010: The role of experts in constitutional negotiations
  • 2009: The principle of subsidiarity - an element of European constitutional law
  • 2008: Perspectives of the basic Union order

The main project since 2004 has been the four-volume handbook on European constitutional history in the 19th century with accompanying source CD-ROMs (two volumes have been published so far). In 2010 a handbook on the European Constitution was published under the title The Basic Union . In addition, individual texts are published under DTIEV-online - Hagener online contributions on European constitutional studies.

The institute publishes a series of publications in which 19 volumes have so far appeared, mainly anthologies with the proceeds from the symposia.

  • Volume 19: Peter Schiffauer (Ed.): A Single Model of Governance or Tailored Responses? Historical, Economic and Legal Aspects of European Governance in the Crisis. Magic recipe or made-to-measure answers? Historical, Economic and Legal Aspects of European Governance in Crisis. Proceeds from the symposium of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on November 24 and 25, 2016 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3836-3 .
  • Volume 18: Peter Schiffauer, Krzysztof Lobos (ed.): Contributions to the roots of European integration. The result of a German-Polish discussion a decade after the eastward expansion of the European Union , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3666-6 .
  • Volume 17: Peter Brandt (Ed.): Parliamentarization and deparliamentarization of constitutional systems. Proceeds from the symposium of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on December 5 and 6, 2016 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3665-9 .
  • Volume 16: Peter Brandt (Ed.): Constitution and Crisis. Proceeds from the symposium of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on November 29 and 30, 2013 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8305-3585-0 .
  • Volume 15: Peter Brandt, Andreas Haratsch, Hans-Rüdiger Schmidt (eds.): Constitution - Parties - Basic Union. Memorial symposium for Dimitris Th. Tsatsos. Proceeds from the symposium of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on May 6 and 7, 2011 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8305-3509-6 .
  • Volume 14: Andreas Haratsch (Ed.): National Constitutions and European Law , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3445-7 .
  • Volume 13: Andreas Haratsch (Ed.): The Subsidiarity Principle - An Element of European Constitutional Law. Proceeds from the symposium of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on September 5, 2009 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3354-2 .
  • Volume 12: Peter Brandt (Ed.): Perspectives of the Union Basic Order. Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Dimitris Th. Tsatsos on his 75th birthday. Proceeds from the symposium of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the Fernuniversität in Hagen on May 4, 2008 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8305-3207-1 .
  • Volume 11: Ingrid Piela: Walter Hallstein - lawyer and creative European politician from the very beginning . Political and institutional visions of the first President of the EEC Commission (1958–1967) , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8305-3139-5 .
  • Volume 10: Arthur Benz (Ed.): Policy advice in constitutional reforms. Proceeds from the symposium of the Dimitris Tsatsos Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on September 24, 2010 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8305-3092-3 .
  • Volume 9: Izabela Jędrzejowska: Constitutional Terminology in Transition. The Drifting Semantics of the Supranational Discourse under Negotiation , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8305-1903-4 .
  • Volume 8: Peter Brandt (Ed.): The great neighbor in the east. Contributions to the history, the constitution and the foreign relations of Russia , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8305-3091-6 .
  • Volume 7: Werner Daum, Kathrin S. Hartmann, Simon Palaoro, Bärbel Sunderbrink (eds.): Communication and conflict resolution. Constitutional culture as a factor in political and social power relations , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1733-7 .
  • Volume 6: Peter Brandt (Ed.): “Social Europe?” Proceeds from the symposium of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen on October 20, 2006 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305 -1697-2 .
  • Volume 5: Christiane Dietze: The project Europe in the dialectic of free market and social justice. Legal prolegomena to a European social model , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1668-2 .
  • Volume 4: Dimitris Th. Tsatsos: On the Development of the European Constitution - Contributions from 1997 to 2008 , ed. by Peter Brandt, Andreas Haratsch, Hans-Rüdiger Schmidt, BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8305-1531-9 .
  • Volume 3: Andreas Haratsch, Peter Schiffauer (eds.): Protection of fundamental rights in the European Union - two lectures as part of an international seminar at Doshisha University Kyoto , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8305-1468 -8 .
  • Volume 2: Dimitris Th. Tsatsos (Ed.): On the constitutionalization process in the European Union. A contribution through five documents , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-0983-9 .
  • Volume 1: Institute for European Constitutional Studies (Ed.): The European Union as constitutional order. Proceeds from the opening symposium of the Institute for European Constitutional Studies at the FernUniversität Hagen on February 13, 2004 , BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8305-0869-7 .

Dimitris Tsatsos Prize

Prize winner 2016: Giorgio Napolitano (2006)

In 2012, the DTIEV, in cooperation with the Center for European Constitutional Law (CECL, Themistokles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation) in Athens launched the "Dimitris Tsatsos Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of European Constitutional Studies", which was awarded in the Usually awarded every two years. The two institutes are authorized to make proposals alternately.

Previous winners were

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the manual and the sources at Dietz-Verlag .
  2. ↑ Dimitris Tsatsos (Ed.): The Union Basic Order. Manual for the European Constitution , Berlin 2010.
  3. ↑ DTIEV, FernUniversität in Hagen: Publication series of the DTIEV - publication series - DTIEV - Faculty Rewi - FernUniversität in Hagen. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Program of the symposium with award ceremony on 13./14. April 2018 .
  5. ↑ Presentation of the Dimitris Tsatsos Prize to Senator Giorgio Napolitano , DTIEV homepage, November 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Gerd Dapprich: Dimitris Tsatsos Prize awarded for the second time , DTIEV homepage, October 26, 2015 ; idw, October 20, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Gerd Dapprich: Dimitris Tsatsos Prize awarded for the first time , DTIEV homepage, November 15, 2012 .