ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Paris: Epitome or Blind Spot of the Constitutional Identity of France?
- (Essay)
- Giacomo Delledonne This short piece aims to make sense of the place of Paris within the French constitutional order and to analyse the role of the capital city in defining the constitutional identity ...
- Created on 27 June 2025
- 2. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe
- (Essay)
- ... paper identifies key constitutional and administrative patterns across Europe, drawing on Council of Europe frameworks and comparative analyses. It highlights variations in capital city models – ranging ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 3. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation
- (Essay)
- ... the first adoption, in December 2024, the UK government presented to Parliament a proposal for a Remedial Order, later scrutinised by the Joint Committee on Human Rights. This case note analyses the relevance ...
- Created on 18 June 2025
- 4. Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa. A Rejoinder
- (Review articles)
- Aslı Ü. Bâli, Omar M. Dajani This work critically analyses the Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani, ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 5. Book Review: Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa - Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani (eds.)
- (Review articles)
- Nickson Mayieka Oira This work critically analyses the Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani, Cambridge University ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 6. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
- (Essay)
- Errol P. Mendes This article analyses how two western Canadian provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, have used the concept of provincial sovereignty to argue for a form of autonomy that violates ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 7. Independence in the European Union
- (Essay)
- ... Scotland or the Basque Country. After tracing this telos to the federal nature of the European Union, this essay analyses the legal arguments which support the claim to political independence of those ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 8. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher
- (Essay)
- ... ratified the CRPD, they are nevertheless worthy of clarification, as they shape the assumptions underlying the analyses that address the challenges the Convention continues to pose several years after ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 9. Digitalising Agricultural and Food Systems: policy challenges and actions for the sustainable transition in the EU
- (Essay)
- ... sustainable agri-food systems. The paper aims to analyse the recent European Union policy agenda concerning digitalisation and the adoption of digital technologies in agriculture and food systems to promote ...
- Created on 08 September 2023
- 10. European Republicanism and the Return of Geopolitics in European Integration Theory
- (Essay)
- ... analyses the agenda of the new German government, especially regarding the relations to authoritarian and populist regimes and the concept of a “European Federal Republic” as a future vision for Europe ...
- Created on 28 July 2022
- 11. Federalism, political culture and the Question of Remaking Nigeria
- (Essay)
- ... country. It analysed salient issues like Herders/farmers conflict and insecurity and complemented with a survey of 220 respondents. Preliminary evidence indicates the presence of a federal political culture ...
- Created on 18 November 2021
- 12. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts
- (Essay)
- Secession in a EU context analysed from a multilevel governance unravels that there is in fact room EU interference in secessionist conflicts. Nevertheless, a balance should be struck between such commitment ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 13. Ethnolinguistic federalism and interborder conflict in Ethiopia
- (Essay)
- ... were collected from the National Census Report, YouTube and official government letters. The qualitative data were analysed through thematic analysis, while the quantitative data were expressed in terms ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 14. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
- (Essay)
- ... the positive aspects of the Agreement, but also and above all its criticalities and failures. Taking into consideration such results and the interaction between the two organisations, we analyse the main ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 15. Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation in Federal Systems
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- The thematic focus of this issue of Perspectives on Federalism shall analyse phenomena of pluralism in the judiciary of federal systems: ‘Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation ...
- Created on 12 December 2020