The German Constitutional Court’s recent challenge to European law supremacy, and European lawyers’ strident critique of it, divert us from the conversation we need to have. The German Federal Constitutional Court wants us to focus on a surplus of European Union power, the European Court of Justice’s refusal to constrain it, the legal strategy of proportionality, and the goal of protecting national democracy. I defend national judicial pushback that is used to protect individual rights, democracy, and the national constitutional order. But demanding a German right to proportionality review of European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy does not further these goals. Judicial review of monetary policy, especially in a context of radical uncertainty, makes little sense. Nor is the German Court’s doctrinal focus helpful as a way to address globalization. We need a new and different conversation focused on when and how constitutional review can effectively and helpfully push back against the adverse impacts that economic globalization is creating.

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何时以及如何在法律上挑战经济全球化：对德国宪法法院虚假承诺的评论

德国宪法法院最近对欧洲法律至高无上的挑战，以及欧洲律师对它的尖锐批评，使我们偏离了我们需要进行的对话。德国联邦宪法法院希望我们关注欧盟权力的过剩，欧洲法院拒绝限制它，相称的法律策略，以及保护国家民主的目标。我为用于保护个人权利、民主和国家宪法秩序的国家司法反击辩护。但要求德国对欧洲中央银行 (ECB) 货币政策进行比例审查的权利并不能进一步实现这些目标。对货币政策进行司法审查，特别是在极度不确定的情况下，几乎没有意义。德国法院的理论重点也无助于解决全球化问题。我们需要一个新的、不同的对话，重点关注宪法审查何时以及如何有效和有帮助地抵制经济全球化正在造成的不利影响。