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The Preliminary Reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union by Constitutional Courts
No full textNumero speciale della Rivista "German Law Journal", classificato in fascia A, di rilevanza internazionale, dedicato al tema del rinvio pregiudiziale da parte delle Corti costituzionali alla Corte di Giustizia europea. Il numero speciale, curato da Maria Dicosola, Cristina Fasone e Irene Spigno, raccoglie gli scritti di studiosi europei, con introduzione della Prof.ssa Monica Claes e conclusioni della Prof.ssa Marta Cartabi
Constitutional Reasoning in the Italian Constitutional Court
No full textThis article deals with the context and methods of constitutional reasoning developed by the Italian Constitutional Court in 40 cases that have been selected for being considered as “leading cases” within the Italian system (until June 2013). It is part of the CONREASON (Constitutional Reasoning in a Comparative Perspective) Project, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law. Analyzing institutional issues (e.g., composition of the court, competences, workload and structure of the opinions), the context of constitutional reasoning (attitudes of legal scholarship towards the constitutional court, legal and political culture and international context), and especially by empirical analysis of the arguments in constitutional reasoning (e.g., types of arguments, weight of arguments, degree of judicial candor and rhetoric and key concepts), the authors give a critical evaluation of the Italian Constitutional Court’s argumentative practices, which combine a high degree of jurisprudential creativity with a degree of legal transparency of the decisions (and, more generally, of constitutional litigations).
Il presente lavoro analizza le tecniche di interpretazione costituzionale utilizzate dalla Corte costituzionale italiana attraverso l’esame delle 40 più importanti pronunce, che sono state selezionate dalle autrici (la selezione è stata fatta fino al mese di giugno 2013 incluso). Esso fa parte del progetto di ricerca CONREASON (Constitutional Reasoning in a Comparative Perspective), portato avanti nell’ambito del Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law di Heidelberg. Attraverso l’esame di alcune caratteristiche del sistema italiano di giustizia costituzionale (tra le quali la composizione della Corte, le competenze, il carico di lavoro, la struttura delle decisioni), e più in generale del contesto giuridico (attitudine della dottrina nei confronti del giudice costituzionale, rapporti con gli altri giudici, livello di accettazione da parte del sistema politico), ma soprattutto a seguito di una ricerca empirica condotta sulla motivazione delle sentenze (tipologia di argomenti, peso rispettivo, livello di trasparenza delle decisioni, retorica, temi-chiave) le autrici offrono una valutazione critica delle tecniche argomentative della Corte costituzionale italiana, che abbinano a un elevato livello di creatività giurisprudenziale una scarsa trasparenza delle decisioni e del processo costituzionale nel suo insieme
Foreword: Constitutional Courts in the European legal system after the Treaty of Lisbon and the Euro-crisis
No full textThe paper provides for an introduction to the special issue of the German Law Journal on the topic of preliminary references to the CJEU by the highest jurisdictions.
Following an introduction based on a comparative analysis of the status quo and the potential of the use of the preliminary reference by Constitutional Courts, Part One is devoted to the multilevel system of constitutional adjudication in which Constitutional Courts are requested to act so as to include the national level, the EU, and the system of the ECHR. Part Two is devoted to long-standing or (newly) stabilized relationships between the CJEU and Constitutional Courts. Part Three deals with Constitutional Courts that have referred preliminary questions to the CJEU. Part Four analyzes the cases of Courts that have not yet issued a preliminary reference to the CJEU. Part Five includes a series of comparative analyses of how Constitutional Courts perceive their role in the "dialogue" with the CJEU and on their use of the preliminary reference procedure in crucial sectors. In the final paper, new questions are put forward and lead to a depiction of "Europe" as a space of constitutional interdependence
Luis Efrén Ríos Vega; Irene Spigno (dirs.), Fernando Gustavo Ruz Dueñas (coord.), Los derechos humanos en los tiempos de la pandemia Covid-19
No full textEste artículo reseña: Luis Efrén RÍOS VEGA, Irene SPIGNO (dirs.), Fernando Gustavo RUZ DUEÑAS (coord.), Los derechos humanos en los tiempos de la pandemia Covid-19, Tirant lo Blanch, México, 2022, 262 pp
The preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union by Constitutional Courts
No full textThe prospective role of Constitutional Courts in the advisory opinion mechanism before the European Court of Human Rights: a first comparative assessment with the European Union and the Inter-American System
No full textThe Prospective Role of Constitutional Courts in the Advisory Opinion Mechanism
No full textIn the article it is argued that, on the one hand, and also in the light of the experience accrued within other supranational systems, Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights could represent a challenge for Constitutional Courts’ autonomy when dealing with constitutional review of legislation. On the other hand, the effective enforcement of the new mechanism largely relies on the attitude that will be shown by national courts, first of all by constitutional judges, as well as the ECtHR itself in using this device. In other words, the degree of engagement in the European judicial conversation depends primarily on national Constitutional Courts and on the extent to which they see themselves as “agents” shaping European constitutional space
Las sentencias de la Corte de Estrasburgo en materia de uniones homosexuales
No full textThe article is focused on the case Oliari and the aim of the author is to point out how the international judicial activism can be useful in order to solve legislative omissions
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