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'The Way Of The World', International Economic Law And National Constitutions: Irish Constitutional Sovereignty And The Eurozone Crisis, Darren O'Donovan

Darren O'Donovan

The height of the Eurozone crisis was accompanied by the emergence of the aphorism: 'when solvency goes, sovereignty goes'. Within the Irish legal system, both commentators and judges have been forced to engage with the question of what a constitution can deliver, and to what extent understandings of constitutional sovereignty must evolve, when a nation is confronted with the realities of sovereign insolvency. While issues of sovereignty are often analysed through the prism of politics or economics, or through the design or evolution of the constitutional order of the European Union, this article focuses upon the place of the legal …