Constitutional courts and transnational solidarity conflicts
The research project reconstructs conflicts over distribution and recognition within the EU, which have intensified during the Eurozone-crisis, as transnational solidarity conflicts. It analyzes particularly the role national and European constitutional courts play in these conflicts.
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Conflict and conflict resolution
The Eurozone crisis is accompanied by a politicization of European governance. Transnational solidarity conflicts, which were pacified for a long time within the paradigm of a permissive consensus, have now developed a new quality. The tsc-project analyzes how these conflicts might be articulated and if constitutional courts may resolve them productively.
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Research material
The research projects deals with the role of constitutional and apex courts in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain as well as on the EU-level. It analyzes more than 100 judgements with regard to their management of transnational solidarity conflicts in the context of the Eurozone crisis.
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Research aims
The tsc-project pursues three research aims: (1) to describe the dynamics of transnational solidarity conflicts and the institutional possibilities of their articulation; (2) to understand the consequences of tsc in the deep structures of national constitutional law; (3) to provide a normative yardstick for the role of constitutional courts in tsc.
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Affiliation
The research project is affiliated at the Goethe-University Frankfurt and will be conducted in an intensive collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. It was launched on the 1st of March 2017 and is scheduled for five years.
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Kristina Schönfeldt

Kristina Schönfeldt was a research assistant at the Institute for German, European and International Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (professorship of Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat, LL.M.) and a legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Bamberg. She studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the University of Oxford and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, specializing in "International and European Economic and Legal Relations". From 2014 to 2019, Kristina Schönfeldt was a research assistant at the Institute for International Law (Chair of Prof. Dr. Stefan Talmon, MA, LL.M.) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In 2017, she was awarded two departmental teaching prizes for outstanding teaching (working group on public law and working group for revision students). In 2015 and 2015, she also worked as a research assistant at the law firm Meilicke, Hoffmann & Partner mbB in Bonn. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Talmon, she is working on a doctoral thesis on the domestic application of international soft law instruments.

Her main areas of research in this context were: Arctic and Antarctic law, international law of the sea, international environmental law, international humanitarian law and international and European human rights law, German and comparative constitutional law.

Contact: kristina.schoenfeldt[@]fau.de

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