Gráinne de Búrca

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Is EU Supranational Governance a Challenge to Liberal Constitutionalism?
Gráinne de Búrca
Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, NYU Law Schoo

The European Union was founded in the 1950s as an experiment in postwar regional integration, in part to help rebuild national economies damaged by World War II through economic integration, and in part to ward off, by means of closer legal and political integration of states, the threat of totalitarianism and Soviet expansion.