Publications
2020
Kumm, Mattias (2020): ""We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident”. Constitutionalism, Public Reason, and Legitimate Authority". In: Silje Langvatn/Mattias Kumm/Wojciech Sadurski (Eds.): Public Reason and Courts. Studies on International Courts and Tribunals Series. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, p. 143-163.
Kumm, Mattias (2020): "Arbeit am Exit als Staatspflicht. Regierungen müssen ihre Bürger vor dem Verlust der Freiheit schützen". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, No. 168, p. 14-16.
Kumm, Mattias (2020): "Gegen obrigkeitsstaatliche Tendenzen in der Krise. Massive Freiheitseingriffe und deren grundrechtliche Rechtfertigung". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 20.04.2020.
Langvatn, Silje/Kumm, Mattias/Sadurski, Wojciech (Eds.) (2020): Public Reason and Courts. Studies on International Courts and Tribunals Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, XXVII, 367 p.
2019
"On the Representativeness of Constitutional Courts. How to Strengthen the Legitimacy of Rights Adjudicating Courts without Undermining Their Independence". In: Christine Landfried (Ed.): Judicial Power. How Constitutional Courts Affect Political Transformations. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, p. 281-291.
With Wiener, Antje/Dunoff, Jeffrey L./Havercroft, Jonathan /Kovács, Kriszta (2019): "Global Constitutionalism as agora. Interdisciplinary encounters, cultural recognition and global diversity". In: Global Constitutionalism, vol. 8, No. 1, p. 1-11.
2018
with Kovács, Kriszta/Steinbeis, Maximilian/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2018): "Introduction: Constitutional Resilience and the German Grundgesetz". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 06.12.2018. (Workshop on Constitutional Resilience, 13-14 November 2018, WZB Berlin Social Science Center)"
The Turn to Justification. On the Structure and Domain of Human Rights Practice". In: Adam Etinson (Ed.): Human Rights. Moral or Political?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 238-261.
"How Populist Authoritarian Nationalism Threatens Constitutionalism. Or: Constitutional Resilience Is a Key Issue of Our Time". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 06.12.2018.
"The Rule of Law, Legitimate Authority and Constitutionalism". In: Christoph Bezemek/Michael Potacs/Alexander Somek (Eds.): Legal Positivism, Institutionalism and Globalisation. Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Vol. 1. Oxford: Hart Publishing, p. 113-125.
with Suami, Takao/Peters, Anne/Vanoverbeke, Dimitri (eds): Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2017
"Is the Structure of Human Rights Practice Defensible? Three Puzzles and their Resolution". In: Vicki C. Jackson/Mark Tushnet (Eds.): Proportionality. New Frontiers, New Challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 51-74.
"Demokratie als reaktionärer Topos. Populistische Ideologien sind strukturell verfassungsfeindlich". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, vol 157, p. 6-8.
"Causes of the Financial Crisis and Causes of Citizen Resentment in Europe. What Law Has to Do With It". In: Lina Papadopoulou/Ingolf Pernice/Joseph H.H. Weiler (Eds.): Legitimacy Issues of the European Union in the Face of Crisis. Dimitris Tsatos in memoriam. European Constitutional Law Network-Series, Vol. 9. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 129-148.
"Constitutional Courts and Legislatures. Institutional Terms of Engagement". In: Católica Law Review, No. 1, p. 55-66.
Global Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law". In: Anthony F. Lang/Antje Wiener (Eds.): Handbook on Global Constitutionalism. Research Handbooks on Globalisation and the Law Series. Cheltenham/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, p. 197-211.
with Havercroft, Jonathan/Dunoff, Jeffrey L/Wiener, Antje: "Enduring Principles. The End of 'the West' and the Future of Global Constitutionalism". In: WZB Report, Vol. 2017, p. 43-46.
with Havercroft, Jonathan/Dunoff, Jeffrey/Wiener, Antje (2017): "The End of ‘the West’ and the Future of Global Constitutionalism. Editorial". In: Global Constitutionalism, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 1-11.
with Shin, Yoon Jin: "Impeaching Remnants of the Authoritarian Past. A Constitutional Moment in South Korea". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 14.03.2017.
with Shin, Yoon Jin: "A tavasz alkotmányos pillanata". In: Szuverén - A liberális demokrácia oldalai, 29.03.2017.
2016
"Sovereignty and the Right to Be Left Alone. Subsidiarity, Justice-Sensitive Externalities, and the Proper Domain of the Consent Requirement in International Law". In: Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, No. 2, p. 239-258.
"Constituent Power, Boundaries and Identity. On the Justificatory Depth of Constitutionalism - A Rejoinder to Neil Walker". In: International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 14, No. 4, p. 914–924.
"An Empire of Capital? Transatlantic Investment Protection as the Protection of Illegitimate Investor Privileges". In: WZB Report, No. 2016, p. 43-46.
"Constituent Power, Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism, and Post-positivist Law". In: International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 697-711.
with Tully, James/Dunoff, Jeffrey L./Lang, Anthony F./Wiener, Antje: "Introducing Global Integral Constitutionalism". In: Global Constitutionalism, Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 1-15.
2015
"An Empire of Capital? Transatlantic Investment Protection as the Institutionalization of Unjustified Privilege". In: ESIL Reflections, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 1-8.
"Democratic Governance of the Euro. Two Practical Suggestions". In: Maximilian Steinbeis/Alexandra Kemmerer/Christoph Möllers (Eds.): Krise und Konstitutionalisierung in Europa. Verfassungsblog I. Recht im Kontext, Vol. 3. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 49-53. (first online publication 23 May 2012: http://www.verfassungsblog.de/democratic-governance-euro-europe/)
Kumm, Mattias/Steinbeis, Maximilian: "'Eine parlamentarisch verantwortliche Regierung für Europa'. Interview mit Mattias Kumm". In: Maximilian Steinbeis/Alexandra Kemmerer/Christoph Möllers (Eds.): Krise und Konstitutionalisierung in Europa. Verfassungsblog I. Recht im Kontext, Bd. 3. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 193-198. (first online publication 23 January 2013: http://www.verfassungsblog.de/eine-parlamentarisch-verantwortliche-regie...)
"Rettungsschirm für Grundrechte". In: Maximilian Steinbeis/Alexandra Kemmerer/Christoph Möllers (Eds.): Gebändigte Macht. Verfassung im europäischen Nationalstaat - Verfassungsblog II. Recht im Kontext, Bd. 4. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 205-208. (first online publication 1. March 2012: http://www.verfassungsblog.de/rettungsschirm-fr-grundrechte-anmerkungen-...)
"An Empire of Capital? Transatlantic Investment Protection as the Institutionalization of Unjustified Privilege". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 27.05.2015.
"Ein Imperium des Kapitals? Der transatlantische Investitionsschutz als Schutz illegitimer Investorenprivilegien". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 148, p. 10 - 13.
"25 Jahre nach Ende des Kalten Krieges. Der liberal-demokratische Verfassungsstaat zwischen autoritären Herausforderungen und neuen Kriegen". In: polar - Politik/Theorie/Alltag, H. 19, p. 25 - 32.
"Ein Weltreich des Kapitals? Die Institutionalisierung ungerechtfertigter Investorenprivilegien in TTIP und CETA". In: Leviathan, Jg. 43, H. 3, p. 464 - 475.
"Taking 'The Dark Side' Seriously. Constitutionalism and the Question of Constitutional Progress - Or: Why It is Fitting to Have the 2016 ICON-S Conference in Berlin". In: International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 13, No. 4, p. 777 - 784.
2014
Kumm, Mattias/Lang, Anthony F./Tully, James/Wiener, Antje: "Editorial. How Large Is the World of Global Constitutionalism?". In: Global Constitutionalism, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 1 - 8.
"Rebel Without a Good Cause. Karlsruhe's Misguided Attempt to Draw the CJEU into a Game of 'Chicken' and What the CJEU Might Do about It". In: German Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Special Issue "The OMT Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court", p. 203 - 215.
Kumm, Mattias/Walen, Alec D.: "Human Dignity and Proportionality. Deontic Pluralism in Balancing". In: Grant Huscroft/Bradley W. Miller/Grégoire Webber (Eds.): Proportionality and the Rule of Law. Rights, Justification, Reasoning. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, p. 67 - 89.
"Welcher chinesische Traum? Vom Konstitutionalismus und seinen gefährlichen Alternativen". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 144, p. 10 - 12.
"Why the Council is under a Legal Duty to Propose Juncker as a Commission President/Der Europäische Rat ist verpflichtet, Juncker vorzuschlagen". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 06.06.2014.
"Why Armstrong is Wrong and there IS in Fact a Legal Duty to Appoint Juncker". In: Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, 13.06.2014.
2013
The Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism. An Integrated Conception of Public Law. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 20 (2), p. 605-628
No to a Transfer Union, Yes to an Economic Justice Union. In: Franklin Allen/Elena Carletti/Joanna Gray (Hg.): Political, Fiscal and Banking Union in the Eurozone?, p. 103-106.
Kosmopolitischer Staat und konstitutionelle Autorität. Eine integrative Konzeption Öffentlichen Rechts. In: Andreas Voßkuhle/Christian Bumke/Florian Meinel (Hg.): Verabschiedung und Wiederentdeckung des Staates im Spannungsfeld der Disziplinen. Beihefte zu "Der Staat", Bd. 21. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 245-266.
What Kind of a Constitutional Crisis is Europe in and What Should Be Done about It?. WZB Discussion Paper SP IV 2013-801. Berlin: WZB.
Und wer hat das Sagen? Die Euro-Krise und die Demokratie - Wolfgang Merkel, Mattias Kumm und Michael Zürn im Gespräch". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 139, p. 25-28.
2012
Democratic Challenges Arising out of the Eurocrisis. In: European Parliament's Policy Department C "Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs" (Ed.): Challenges of Multi-tier Governance in the EU. Workshop, Thursday, 4th October 2012, PHS 3C50 - Outlines of the Presentations. Brussels: European Parliament, p. 33-35.
The Moral Point of Constitutional Pluralism. Defining the Domain of Legitimate Institutional Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection. In: Julie Dickson/Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Eds.): Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 216-246.
Constitutionalism and experimentalist governance, in: Regulation & Governance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 6, issue 3, September 2012, p. 401 - 409.
Ein Signal für Europa, in: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" vom 09.08.2012, p. 6.
It's the banks, stupid! Die Euro-Krise als Demokratiekrise, in: WZB-Mitteilungen, Berlin: WZB, 2012 (137), p. 10 - 12.
Total Rights and the Banality of Injustice, in: This Century's Review - Journal for Rational Legal Debate, 2012 (1), p. 10 - 14.
Poiares Maduro, Miguel; De Witte, Bruno and Kumm, Mattias: "The Euro-Crisis and the Democratic Governance of the Euro. Legal and Political Issues of a Fiscal Crisis". In: Miguel Poiares Maduro/Bruno De Witte/Mattias Kumm (Hg.): The Democratic Governance of the Euro, p. 3-11. RSCAS Policy Paper 2012/08.
Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights and the Problem of Judicial Review, in: Institutionalized Reason, hg. v. Mathias Klatt, Oxford: OUP, p. 201 - 217.
Rethinking Constitutional Authority. On the Structure and Limits of Constitutional Pluralism, in: Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond, hg. v. Matej Avbelj und Jan Komárek, Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law Series, p. 39 - 65.
The Idea of Thick Constitutional Patriotism and its Implications for the Role and Structure of European Legal History, in: Dialogues on Justice, hg. v. Helle Porsdam and Thomas Elholm, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, p. 108 - 137.
Representativeness and Independence of Courts, in: Courts, Social Change and Judicial Independence, hg. v. Adriana Silvia Dreyzin de Klor/Miguel Poiares Maduro/Antoine Vauchez, RSCAS Policy Paper 2012/07, p. 53 - 55.
2011
European legality and jurisdictional justification. How the ECJ should determine the legality of legislation unter Art. 114 TFEU, in: Hope, Reluctance or Fear?, hg. v. Flavia Carbonell, Agustín José Menéndez und John Erik Fossum, Oslo: Arena Report Series No 5/11, p. 115 - 165.
Comment: Contesting the Management of Difference. Transnational Human Rights, Religion and the European Court of Human Rights' Lautsi Decision, in: Difference and Democracy, hg. v. Kolja Raube, Anika Sattler und Saskia Mestern, p. 245 - 259.
How Does European Union Law Fit into the World of Public Law? Costa, Kadi and Three Models of Public Law, in: Political Theory of the European Union, hg. v. J. Neyer/ A. Wiener, Oxford, p. 111 - 138.
2010
"Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, Nold" and the New Human Rights Paradigm, in: The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty, ed. M.P. Maduro/ L. Azoulai, Oxford 2010, p. 106 - 119.
The Idea of Socratic Contestation and the Right to Justification: The Point of Rights Based Proportionality Review, in: Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 4 (2) (2010), p. 141 - 175.
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Between Constitutional Triumphalism and Nostalgia, in: The Twilight of Constitutionalism?, ed. P. Dobner/ M. Loughlin, Oxford 2010, p. 201 - 220.
2009
The Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism: On the Relationship Between Constitutionalism in and Beyond the State, in: Ruling the World? International Law, Global Governance, Constitutionalism, ed. J. L. Dunoff /J. P. Trachtman, Cambridge 2009, p. 258 - 326.
On the Past and Future of European Constitutional Scholarship, in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 7 (3) (2009), p. 401 - 415.
Democracy Is not Enough: Rights, Proportionality and the Point of Judicial Review, in: New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers, Paper 118 (2009), p. 1 - 38.
2008
Why Europeans Will Not Embrace Constitutional Patriotism, in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 6 (1) (2008), p. 117 - 136.
Geschichte als Argument? Republikanisches Geschichtsverständnis im Transnationalen Europa, in: "Schmerzliche Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit" und der Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung Europas - Rechts-, Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaftliche Beiträge, eds. Ch. Jörges/M. Mahlmann /U.K. Preuß, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 43 - 48.
2007
Jenseits des Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatzes: Grundrechtlicher Strukturpluralismus im Verfassungsrecht der Vereinigten Staaten, in: Die Prinzipientheorie der Grundrechte: Studien zur Grundrechtstheorie Robert Alexys, Hg. J-R. Sieckmann, Baden-Baden 2007, 241 - 262; auf Spanisch erschienen in: La teoría principialista de los derechos fundamentales, Hg. Jan-R. Sieckmann, Madrid et al., 2011, p. 273 - 296.
Political Liberalism and the Structures of Rights: On the Place and Limits of the Proportionality Requirement, in: Law, Rights and Discourse: Themes from the Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy, hg. v. G. Pavlakos, Oxford and Portland, Oregon, 2007, p. 131 - 166.
Institutionalizing Socratic Contestation: The Rationalist Human Rights Paradigm, Legitimate Authority and the Point of Judicial Review, in: European Journal of Legal Studies, 1 (2) (2007).
2006
Democratic Constitutionalism Encounters International Law: Terms of Engagement, in: The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, hg. v. S. Choudhry, Cambridge u.a. 2006, 256 - 294, auch verügbar als: New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers, Paper 47 (2006), p. 1 - 56.
Constitutionalizing Subsidiarity in Integrated Markets: The Case of Tobacco Regulation in the European Union, in: European Law Journal, 12 (4) (2006), p. 503 - 533.
Who Is Afraid of the Total Constitution? Constitutional Rights as Principles and the Constitutionalization of Private Law in Germany, in: German Law Journal, 7 (4) (2006), 341 - 370; ebenfalls in: Arguing Fundamental Rights. Series: Law and Philosophy Library, Vol. 77, eds. Menéndez, Agustín J. und Eriksen, Erik O., Springer, p. 113 - 138; in Spanish in: La argumentación y los derechos fundamentales, eds. Menéndez, Agustín J. und Eriksen, Erik O., Centro de estudios politicos y constitucionales, Madrid, 2010, p.153 - 188.
Beyond Golf Clubs and the Judicialization of Politics: Why Europe Has a Constitution Properly So Called, in: American Journal of Comparative Law, 54 (2006), p. 505 - 530 (received the EuCon Prize 2006).
What Do You Have in Virtue of Having a Constitutional Right? On the Place and Limits of the Proportionality Requirement, in: New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers. Paper 46 (2006), p. 1 - 46.
2005
Liberale Gerechtigkeitstheorien und die Struktur der Grundrechte, in: Juristische Grundlagenforschung, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie - Beihefte, ed. R. Alexy, Beiheft 104 (2005), p. 218 - 234.
To Be a European Citizen? The Absence of Constitutional Patriotism and the Constitutional Treaty, in: Columbia Journal of European Law, 11 (2005), 481 - 542; ebenfalls in: Revista Espanola de Derecho Constitucional, 74, (Mayo/Agosto 2005), 9 - 62. Auch abgedruckt in: ARENA Report No 3 (2005), hg. mit E.O. Eriksen/ J. E. Fossum/ A. J. Menendez, ch. 1., p. 7 - 65.
The Idea of Thick Constitutional Patriotism and Its Implications for the Role and Structure of European Legal History, in: German Law Journal, 6 (2) (2005), p. 319 - 354.
The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Conflict: Constitutional Supremacy in Europe before and after the Constitutional Treaty, in: European Law Journal, 11 (3) (2005), p. 262 - 307.
The Primacy Clause of the Constitutional Treaty and the Future of Constitutional Conflict in the European Union, in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 3 (June 2005), 473 - 492 (with Victor Ferrerez Comella).
2004
The Legitimacy of International Law: A Constitutionalist Framework of Analysis, in: European Journal of International Law, 15 (5) (2004), p. 907 - 931.
Constitutional Rights as Principles: On the Structure and Domain of Constitutional Justice, in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2 (2004), p. 574 - 596.
2003
International Law in National Courts: The International Rule of Law and the Limits of the Internationalist Model, in: Virginia Journal of International Law, 44 (2003), p. 19 - 32.
2002
Democracy in America: A European Perspective on the Millenial Election, in: The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000, hg. v. A. Jacobsen/ M. Rosenfeld, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 2002, p. 332 - 346.
2000
Die Stellung des Anderen im Internationalen Recht, in: Das Bild "des Anderen”: Politische Wahrnehmung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke Gesellschaft, Beiheft 40, hg. v. M. Salewski/ B. Aschmann, Stuttgart 2000, p. 36 - 54.
1999
Who Is the Final Arbiter of Constitutionality in Europe?, in: Common Market Law Review, 36 (1999), 351 - 386 (prämiert mit dem "Jean Monnet Prize for Best European Law Paper at Harvard Law School", 1998).
Marks, Gary, Fritz W. Scharpf, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Wolfgang Streeck (eds.) - Governance in the European Union, in: European Journal of International Law, 10 (1) (1999), p. 231 - 231.
1997
Mendlovitz, Saul; Weston, Burns H.; Preferred Futures for the United Nation, in: European Journal of International Law, 8 (3) (1997), p. 535 - 536.