ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Washington D.C. as a global center of power projection and its relevance for the interaction of State(s) and religion(s)
- (Essay)
- Pasquale Annicchino This contribution explores Washington D.C.’s unique role as a global epicenter in the production and dissemination of legal ideas, particularly in the context of U.S. power projection ...
- Created on 08 July 2025
- 2. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
- (Essay)
- Ylenia Maria Citino This paper explores the evolution of the constitutional status of Rome within Italy’s legal and political framework, arguing that the city’s symbolic and functional significance ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 3. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Final Remarks
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- Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue, we have gathered experts from different legal systems, and critical voices who have explored new trends in comparative federalism from ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 4. The European Union as a Form of ‘Functional Federalism’
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- Giuseppe Martinico In this contribution, I shall explore the concept of ‘functional federalism’ as developed by Peter Hay in his book Federalism and Supranational Organizations: Patterns for New ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 5. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’
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- Matteo Monti In comparative federalism studies, the category of asymmetry is being explored more and more. However, the traditional category of asymmetry, developed for federal states, does not ...
- Created on 24 July 2024
- 6. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Introduction
- (Editorial)
- Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue we will address some of the clichés present in the study of comparative federalism. In so doing we shall focus on little-explored federalising ...
- Created on 22 July 2024
- 7. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions
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- Cristian Altavilla Sub-national constitutional law constitutes a fundamental chapter of federal theory that, despite its diversity and richness, has been little explored. Recently, n all federal ...
- Created on 12 March 2024
- 8. An Inconvenient truth: the narrow trade-off between Equity and Climate Security
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- This paper explores the narrow trade-off between climate mitigation policy, growth and income inequality, by examining the empirical evidence on the equity-pollution dilemma faced by policymakers when ...
- Created on 17 October 2023
- 9. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
- (Essay)
- ... secession has barely been explored. Against this background, this article explores, from a legal perspective, the internal architecture of the Canadian equalization program with the aim of investigating ...
- Created on 25 November 2022
- 10. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
- (Essay)
- ... of a federal system in South Sudan has again emerged as an important political and constitutional agenda. This article explores the options on the table regarding the institutional design of the federal ...
- Created on 20 June 2022
- 11. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems
- (Essay)
- ... such as religious views on the fetus’s right to life, this article focuses on governance. Drawing on a range of country examples, it explores opportunities for innovation and policy transfer of abortion ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 12. Subnational Courts of Last Resort in Germany and the USA
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- In this article I explore the judicial dimension of federal systems from a subnational perspective. The findings show that regardles of the type of federalism subnational courts of last resort ...
- Created on 28 September 2021