European Administrative Proceedings

Cassese discusses the third strategy of administrative integration, mixed or composite proceedings in which both Community and national authorities participate. Cassese analyzes how the common element takes root in the national part of the proceeding, what the national and supranational parts consist of, and the extent to which they remain distinct or appear instead as a single unit

Territories, Peoples, Sovereignty

Nation States have three defining characteristics: government of a territory, rapport with a group of people and ownership of a sovereign power. All three of these characteristics are undergoing changes. Several developments involve a redefinition of the “State” and produce numerous contradictions, which can only be solved if we consider the historicity of both the phenomenal essence and the conceptual essence of the State. We need to rethink and reconceptualise the State within the context of the new tendencies and transformations delineated by globalisation

¿Está la democracia en crisis?

¿Está la democracia en crisis?Ciencias Jurídica

Legal Comparison by the Courts

 On July 2, 2009 , the Delhi High Court ruled that consensual sexual acts between adults in private are not criminal, and therefore declared that Section 377 of the Indian Criminal Code violates Articles 21, 14 and 15 of the Constitution

Recollections of a Judge

AbstractAs a former justice of the Italian Constitutional Court serving at the time of Sentenza 238/2014, this chapter illustrates my major concerns towards this Judgement. I outline several reasons for a possible 'dissent' (procedural, factual, constitutional, theoretical and strategic). With ex post remarks, the chapter elaborates some additional thoughts on the unnecessary opposition between national and international law and on certain Italian ambiguities towards its past

Federalismi e regionalismi.

Relazione tenuta al Convegno su “Federalismo ieri oggi e domani” organizzato dalla Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università degli studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” in occasione del decennale della Facoltà, Urbino, 21-22 novembre 2003