%0 Journal Article
%T Święty Graal dziedzictwem przyszłości, czyli o poszukiwaniu wspólnej kultury prawnej w praźródłach prawa unijnego
%A Cern, Karolina M.
%A Wojciechowski, Bartosz
%J Principia
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/20843887PI.14.009.1533
%N Vol 57-58
%P 165-190
%K The common European constitutional culture, the multicentric paradigm of law, the national identity of Member States, a case C-555/07 Seda Kücükdeveci v. Swedex GmbH&Co. KG, the constructing of the Future Europe
%@ 0867-5392
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/principia/article/swiety-graal-dziedzictwem-przyszlosci-czyli-o-poszukiwaniu-wspolnej-kultury-prawnej-w-prazrodlach-prawa-unijnego
%X 
	In the following paper we investigate sources and democratic credentials of the common European constitutional culture. The significance of national constitutional traditions is contrasted with the requirement of democratic legitimation for Union law. With that regard the CJEU's ruling in case C-555/07 Seda Kücükdeveci v. Swedex GmbH&Co. KG is carefully analysed. We state a thesis that the chief feature of the searched after common European constitutional culture should be its normative emancipatory force expressed in the concept of the European self-constitutionalisation