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The Road to Palazzo della Consulta: Profiles and Careers of Italian Constitutional Judges

Italian Political Science, 2023
  Constitutional courts' judges are powerful, yet understudied elites. Unlike other political elites which have been studied for over a century, studying their profiles and careers represents a neglected field of analysis from European political ...
Luigi Rullo
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Intertwined but Different. The Heterologous In Vitro Fertilization Case before the European Court of Human Rights and the Italian Constitutional Court

Perspectives on Federalism, 2017
International and constitutional law, originally distinct realms with limited areas of intersection, are getting closer and closer, particularly in the European landscape within the human rights protection field, where these mere contacts between the two
Baraggia Antonia, Gennusa Maria Elena
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The Italian Constitutional Court in Global Constitutional Adjudication

The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2018
The Italian Constitutional Court is neither deeply studied nor particularly well known in comparative legal scholarship, despite being one of Europe’s most active, important, and oldest (since 1956) constitutional courts, preceded only by the Austrian and the Czechoslovakian courts set up shortly after the end of the First World War. Its oral arguments
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They Are not Enforceable, but States Must Respect Them: An Attempt to Explain the Legal Value of Decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights

European Papers, 2023
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1495-1516 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. A brief overview of the main features of human rights treaty bodies. - III.
Andrea Spagnolo
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Between Cynicism and Idealism: Is the Italian Constitutional Court Passing the Buck to the Italian Judiciary? [PDF]

, 2021
AbstractIn this chapter we focus on the consequences ofSentenza238/2014 for the Italian judiciary. The judgment of theCorte Costituzionaleobliges the Italian tribunals to admit claims for the reparation of victims or the heirs of victims and to decide on the merits.
Karin Oellers-Frahm, Giovanni Boggero
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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The resistance of res judicata to the violation of the principle of penal legalty

Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2018
The thesis of the jurisprudence and of a part of the Italian doctrine, according to which the penal judgment should “surrender” in the face of violations of fundamental rights ascertained by EDU Court, and of constitutional guarantees as a result of ...
Manfredi Bontempelli
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Intellectual Property Restitution

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In Europe, open GLAM movements and cultural restitution reforms are overlooking a crucial aspect that should not be underestimated: what should happen to the archival materials, digital collections and intellectual property that are indelibly linked to cultural property.
Andrea Wallace, Mathilde Pavis
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The Doctrine of State Necessity

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
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