1. Governance: An âEmpty Signifierâ?
2. Alongside constitution sit constitutionalism and constitutionalisation as well as constitutional law. See Martin Loughlin, ‘What is Constitutionalisation?' in Petra Dobner and Martin Loughlin (eds),The Twilight of Constitutionalism?(Oxford University Press, 2010) 47.
3. Teubner foated the idea of societal constitutionalism in response to the challenges facing national con stitutions in the context of globalisation in the prestigious Storrs Lecture he delivered at Yale Law School in October 2003. Part of the speech was later published in Gunther Teubner, ‘Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-Centred Constitutional Theory?' in Christian Joerges, Inger-Johannes Sand and Gun-ther Teubner (eds),Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism(Hart Publishing, 2006) 3.
4. See his Preface in Gunther Teubner,Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization(Oxford University Press, 2012).
5. Thomas Vesting, ‘Constitutionalism or Legal Theory? Comments on Gunther Teubner' in Joerges, Sand and Teubner (n 3) 29.