http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/7558fc992f3b4782 https://verfassungsblog.de/eu-law-as-the-law-of-european-society/ EU Law as the Law of European Society - A New Horizon for Constitutional Thought von Bogdandy, Armin eng 2026-06-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Article 2 TEU Commission v Hungary Europa European Constitutionalism European Society legal theory Europa Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In its decision Commission v Hungary, the CJEU’s plenary qualified EU law as the “common legal order of a society in which pluralism prevails”. Leaving pluralism aside, this blogpost explores possible meanings of the “of” in the first part of that formula. My exploration sketches four ever more foundational understandings: European society as the social field of EU law; EU law as expressing deep structures of that society; European society as generating EU law; and European society as the source of EU law’s authority.