School of Law

Chapters

• Gerstenberg OH (2009) The Role of the ECJ in the Protection of Fundamental and Social Rights: Economic Constitutionalism or Deliberative Constitutionalism? In: Callies GP; Fischer-Lescano A (eds.) Soziologische Jurisprudenz. Festschrift Gunther Teubner. De Gruyter Recht Berlin

• Gerstenberg OH (2003) Radikale Rechtsfortbildung im Europaeischen Vertrags- und Haftungsrecht In: Teubner CJG (eds.) Rechtsverfassungsrecht. Festschrift fuer Rudolf Wiethoelter pp. pp.61--68 Rechtsverfassungsrecht. Festschrift fuer Rudolf Wiethoelter

• Gerstenberg OH; Sabel C (2002) Directly-Deliberative Polyarchy: An Institutional Idea for Europe In: Dehousse R; Joerges C (eds.) Good Governance and Administration in Europe's Integrated Market pp. 289 - 341 Oxford University Press

• Gerstenberg OH (2001) Private Law, Constitutionalism and the Limits of Judicial Role In: Scott C (eds.) Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation pp. 687 - 703 Hart Publishing

• Gerstenberg OH (The Failure of) Public Law and the Deliberative Turn

  Must popular constitutionalists reject judicial review wholesale? Is a rapprochement between legal and popular constitutionalism possible? Is there an argument to the effect that judicial review—even when exercised by courts “beyond” the democratic state—improves democratic legitimacy overall—and would such an argument be plausible in the European context? Drawing on the European experience, this paper therefore explores conditions of the possibility of such a rapprochement. It argues that judicial review, suitably understood, along the lines of a weak-remedies- or deliberative-experimentalist approach, can be part of an overall regime of deliberative democracy.

Journal Articles

• Gerstenberg OH (2012) Negative/Positive Constitutionalism, 'Fair Balance,' and the Problem of Justiciability In: International Journal of Constitutional Law [accepted paper] Oxford University Press

  A core objection to the constitutionalization of socio-economic rights focuses on justiciability: courts, it is said, are poorly situated to enforce highly abstract, open-textured socio-economic commitments in the context of particular controversies. The aim of this article is to examine—against the specifically European background—the proposition that experimentalist forms of judicial review can go a long way in allaying justiciability-related concerns about the contextualization of social rights and can serve as a creative device for securing an important role for courts even in domains where they work under obvious institutional constraints. Drawing on the example of the emergence of a new understanding of a principle—of equal treatment irrespective of age in the context of private work- and employment-relations—this paper suggests that “strong,” that is, principled, judicial judgment and experimentalist forms of judicial review go hand in hand. Experimentalism thus opens up a conceptual space for the gradual constitutionalization of socioeconomic rights.

• Gerstenberg OH; Sabel CF (2010) Constitutionalising an Overlapping Consensus: the ECJ and the Emergence of a Co-ordinate Constitutional Order In: European Law Journal 16 pp. 511 - 550

• de Burca G; Gerstenberg OH (2006) The Denationalization of Constitutional Law In: Harvard International Law Journal 47 (1) pp. 243 - 262 Cambridge, MA: Harvard International Law Club

• Gerstenberg OH (2005) What International Law Should (Not) Become: A Comment on Koskenniemi In: European Journal of International Law 16 (1) pp. 125 - 130 Oxford University Press, Academic Division

• Gerstenberg OH (2005) Freedom of Conscience in Public Schools In: International Journal of Constitutional Law 3 (1) pp. 94 - 106 Oxford: Oxford University Press

• Gerstenberg OH (2004) Private Law and the New European Constitutional Settlement In: European Law Journal 10 (6) pp. 766 - 786 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

• Gerstenberg OH (2002) Expanding the Constitution Beyond the Court: The Case of Euro-Constitutionalism In: European Law Journal 8 (1) pp. 172 - 192 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

• Gerstenberg OH (2002) The New Europe: Part of the Problem, or Part of the Solution to the Problem? In: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 22 (3) pp. 563 - 572 Oxford University Press, Academic Division

  Review of "Governing in Europe" F. Scharpf.

• Gerstenberg OH (2001) Denationalization and the Very Ideas of Democratic Constitutionalism: The Case of the European Community In: Ratio Juris 14 (3) pp. 298 - 325 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

• Gerstenberg OH (2000) Justification (and Justifiability) of a Private Law in a Polycontextural World In: Social & Legal Studies 9 (3) pp. pp.421 Sage Publications Ltd.