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Books by Elia Alexiou

Prix de thèse de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris (catégorie: droit "toutes spécialités") - Prix de thèse de l'Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, 2023

Le constitutionnalisme global : Une étude de l'évolution de la pensée constitutionnaliste en droi... more Le constitutionnalisme global : Une étude de l'évolution de la pensée constitutionnaliste en droit international La pensée constitutionnaliste, aussi fondamentale qu'elle soit dans l'histoire juridique et politique mondiale, fut traditionnellement limitée à l'État et, jusqu'à très récemment, quasi absente du droit international. En étudiant la nouvelle théorie pluridisciplinaire du constitutionnalisme global, la présente thèse explore l'évolution de la pensée constitutionnaliste au-delà de l'État, en mettant l'accent, d'une part, sur les fondements théoriques du constitutionnalisme global et, d'autre part, sur sa cristallisation progressive en une nouvelle théorie, susceptible de proposer un nouveau paradigme tant pour la discipline du droit international que pour celle du droit public vu dans son ensemble. En adoptant une définition fonctionnelle de la notion de constitution, la présente étude s'interroge sur la transposition des fonctions constitutionnelles classiques-politiques, juridiques et symboliques-au-delà de l'État. Le constitutionnalisme global est, alors, étudié en tant qu'une nouvelle théorie du droit global, ayant pour autant ses racines dans les idées anciennes de la démocratie, du droit naturel et du cosmopolitisme. D'ailleurs, si elle divise actuellement les internationalistes, cette nouvelle théorie trouve ses sources dans la pensée des plus grands publicistes du XXe siècle. En offrant des réponses plus ou moins convaincantes aux multiples crises du droit public contemporain, le constitutionnalisme global est, en effet, conçu comme un constitutionnalisme multiniveaux, pluraliste et cosmopolitique, structuré autour de l'idée quelque peu utopique d'un ordre constitutionnel global.

Papers by Elia Alexiou

International Community Law Review (Brill), 2025

ICON-S France (Inaugural Workshop), 2024

Le concept de 'crise' en droit public : Crises globales et crises disciplinaires' Les deux premiè... more Le concept de 'crise' en droit public : Crises globales et crises disciplinaires' Les deux premières décennies du XXI siècle ont été profondément marquées par le discours à la fois politique et juridique des « crises globales » : d'abord le terrorisme depuis les attentats à New York en 2001, puis la crise financière depuis la faillite de Lehman Brothers en 2008 et, ensuite, la crise migratoire, la crise sanitaire de Covid-19 et, aujourd'hui, une crise énergétique et environnementale, auxquelles s'ajoutent plusieurs conflits et crises humanitaires actuellement en cours dans différentes parties du monde. En effet, s'ajoutant l'une sur l'autre, ces « crises globales » forment finalement une nouvelle réalité globale, beaucoup plus

Cambridge University Press ("The Crisis behind the Euro Crisis - The Euro Crisis as a Multidimensional Systematic Crisis of the EU"), 2019

During the long history of European unification, several referendums have taken place and most of... more During the long history of European unification, several referendums have taken place and most of them proved to be rather historic. Some European demoi-but certainly not all of them-were occasionally given the chance to map their own route through the processes of European enlargement and integration. They have decided upon their own integration, upon other States' membership or even upon treaty ratifications. They have even rejected-in France and the Netherlands-the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. More recently, in Greece, they rejected a working document concerning a European 'rescue plan' in the midst of the Euro-crisis while, in 2016, the United Kingdom voted upon its own future in the Union. The present chapter analyses the European institutions' reactions to these national referendums on European issues, especially when people gave a seemingly 'wrong' answer (from a European-integration point of view). Reversing the 'no' votes and reviewing a posteriori national referendums through divers processes often led by unelected technocrats has become a common place in modern Europe, given that even the Treaty of Lisbon itself probably suffers from this kind of democratic-legitimacy deficit. Finally, the chapter examines more broadly the question of direct-democracy mechanisms within the Union questioning the non-existence of any kind of pan-European referendum. While most scholars and politicians are still questioning the existence of a European demos, the present study insists more on the absence of those mechanisms which would allow this demos to be heard; to officially declare its will and determine its own fate. The modern European crisis is, thus, seen as only a sign of a much broader crisis of identity and democratic legitimacy taking place within the European Union. As long as the Union keeps ignoring its own demos-and sometimes even the rare national referendums on European questions-there is no future for either European common identity or democracy.

Sur le site internet du Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés, dans la page conce... more Sur le site internet du Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés, dans la page concernant la procédure de demande d'asile en Grèce, un paragraphe apparaît en caractères gras : « Veuillez garder à l'esprit que, suite à l'adoption de la déclaration conjointe UE-Turquie du 18 mars 2016, des procédures différentes s'appliquent aux personnes arrivées en Grèce le 20 mars 2016 et à celles arrivées dans les îles grecques à compter du 20 mars. Par conséquent, la date de votre arrivée en Grèce, avant ou après le 20 mars 2016, joue un rôle important dans le traitement de votre demande d'asile et de votre situation administrative en Grèce. » 1 En effet, pour les demandeurs d'asile arrivés dans les îles grecques ces dernières années, le 20 mars 2016 constitue sans doute une date critique qui détermine plus ou moins leur statut. Une telle catégorisation des demandes d'asile en Grèce -basée sur le simple choix, apparemment arbitraire, d'une date d'arrivée sur le territoire du pays -à la fois reflète et 1. 104 engendre les effets dramatiques de la récente crise des réfugiés qui touche l'Europe, notamment depuis 2015.

'The 1917 Russian Revolution and its impact on Law: International and Comparative Perspectives', ESIL & St Petersburg University, 2017

Starting from the Russian October of 1917, the present study explores the relationship between re... more Starting from the Russian October of 1917, the present study explores the relationship between revolutions and International Law seen through the prism of a very basic legal diptych; that of legality and legitimacy. Although revolution is not a purely legal concept, it may generate immediate drastic or even fatal impacts upon legal orders. There have, thus, been various attempts to define the revolutionary phenomenon in legal terms and even integrate a legal concept of revolution in the discipline of International Law. Without disregarding the various aspects and areas of International Law affected by revolutions (State Sovereignty, State recognition, Law of Treaties etc.), this paper focuses on the more basic question of the nature of revolutions' relationship to International Law. We will thus examine the evolution of the mutual interactions between revolutionary phenomena and the international legal order by asking, on the one hand, how International Law treats revolutions and, on the other, how revolutions themselves have affected the international legal order. Indeed, several norms, mechanisms and doctrines have progressively emerged in International Law either as an answer to successful past revolutionary events or as a means to counter or contain present and future revolutions. A brief comparative analysis of International Law's responses to different revolutionary phenomena will, then, lead to a more general reflection upon the broader legality and legitimacy concerns raised by revolutions. In this context, traditional rules of International Law like the principles of effectiveness, non-interference and self-determination will be combined with modern ideas of democratic governance and democratic revolution, leading respectively to debates regarding an alleged emerging 'right to democracy' or even a genuine 'right to revolution' in the international legal order.

Universität Hamburg, 2017

Following the path of recent Global Public Law approaches and especially the Global Constitutiona... more Following the path of recent Global Public Law approaches and especially the Global Constitutionalism school of thought, Elia Alexiou's talk will focus on the current coexistence of multiple public legal orders. Starting from the premise that the emerging gaps and conflicts can be highly problematic, she describes the exercise of public authority as following a "forum shopping" logic across the different regions, sectors and levels of modern Public Law. She will then explore some possible remedies, both in the same forum shopping logic (following the fragmented and multidimensional character of the Public Law discipline) but also within the quest for a global common framework of principles (inherent in the very idea of Public Law).

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Colloquium 'Emotions & International Law - Emociones & derecho internacional', 2016

Although traditionally conceived as an arena of pure rationality, law has always been deeply affe... more Although traditionally conceived as an arena of pure rationality, law has always been deeply affected by emotions. Even more, International Law-widely considered as a more primitive legal system than the domestic ones-can easily be analyzed through the lens of collective emotions. Nowhere is the role of passions more evident than in International Relations, where pride, anger, greed, fear, empathy or compassion mainly lead the acts of States as well as non-State actors. Dealing with wars, genocides, human rights' violations or new global threats (environmental issues, nuclear issues, terrorism etc.) in the absence of a truly superior authority, interactions are indeed more guided by emotions than they are based on justified reasoning. The present paper will thus attempt to re-narrate the history of International Lawmaking as a "tale of fear and hope". Focusing especially on multilateral conventions, the present study insists on the interaction between negative and positive emotions and their impact on the future of International Law. At first, fear will be proved to be the hidden motivation behind almost every International Law-making initiative (International Law of coexistence) leading, nevertheless, to the cultivation of hope (International Law of cooperation). Thus, applying-by analogy-the Social contract theory in the global realm, International Law will be seen as progressively moving from a Hobbesian State of Nature where fear rules to a Kantian cosmopolitanism and the pursuit of hope.

Columbia Law School, Center on Global Governance, 2013

Global Constitutionalism is one of the most appealing theories in modern legal and political thou... more Global Constitutionalism is one of the most appealing theories in modern legal and political thought. Emerging as an appropriate response to several phenomena occurring below, above, and beyond the nation-state, the idea of conceptualizing constitutionalism at the global level has already captured the academic interest. However, besides analyzing the current constitutionalization of International Law and mapping some first processes of Global Constitutionalism, there is little research and even less consensus on how to proceed. Given that a first conceptual revolution has