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21. 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
22. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...; Created on 26 June 2025
23. Introduction to the Symposium on “Capital Cities Shaping National Constitutional Identities”: (Essay); ... to as “Westphalian constructs” (Boggero in this issue). They do not speak their constitutional role explicitly, but it is imprinted in their spatial order, institutional density, symbolic architecture, ...; Created on 25 June 2025
24. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation: (Essay); Lidia Bonifati On 18 September 2023, the UK Parliament adopted the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict and promote ...; Created on 18 June 2025
25. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?: (Editorial); ... global, solutions, two proposals usually are put forward. On the one hand a federalist one, aiming at creating a truly supranational policy to deal with the issue. On the other hand an intergovernmental ...; Created on 09 May 2025
26. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?: (Note); Işıl Kurnaz Can the refusal of 1-day reserve military service be interpreted in a way that expands the right to conscientious objection? The ECHR's most recent judgment on conscientious objection, ...; Created on 09 April 2025
27. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review: (Essay); Gabriele Casano, Olimpia Fontana, Federico Nastasi The Global Gateway (GG) has been presented as the EU flagship foreign policy initiative to fill the global investment gap, with a regional focus ...; Created on 08 April 2025
28. Energotehnica: Primacy and Effective Judicial Protection Beyond the Rule of Law Crisis: (Note); Orlando Scarcello Case C-792/22, Parchetul de pe lângă Judecătoria Rupea and Others v. MG, Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 September 2024, ECLI:EU:C:2024:788. The Energotehnica judgment ...; Created on 04 December 2024
29. Blockchain Technology in Parliamentary Voting Procedures: (Note); Ylenia Maria Citino Covid-19 pandemics showed us that the functionality of in-person assemblies can be severely challenged by health restrictions. This paper aims to study the feasibility and constitutional ...; Created on 28 November 2024
30. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi: (Essay); Panch Rishi Dev Sharma The President’s Rule impositions under Article 356 of the Constitution of India extraordinarily empower the central government to determine ‘constitutional machinery failure ...; Created on 20 November 2024
31. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods: (Essay); Guido Montani This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense ...; Created on 24 October 2024
32. 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, Cambridge ...; Created on 01 August 2024
33. 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
34. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong: (Essay); Elisabeth Alber New Caledonia is a French autonomous territory in the South Pacific whose constitutional status is designed to be transitional. It derives from the 1998 Nouméa Agreement, based ...; Created on 01 August 2024
35. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession: (Essay); Nejat Hussein, Yonatan T. Fessha The Ethiopian Constitution uniquely elevates the demand for internal secession to the status of a constitutional right. This right, enshrined in Article 47 of ...; Created on 01 August 2024
36. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); Nikos Skoutaris Scholars have often either framed federalism as an alternative to secession (Buchanan 1995) or suggested that secession is incompatible with the federal principle (Jellinek 1905). ...; Created on 31 July 2024
37. 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
38. The European Union as a Form of ‘Functional Federalism’: (Essay); 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
39. Federalism and the Unit Question: (Essay); ... than traditional ones such as, for example, economic factors, urban/rural concentration, and aboriginal/indigenous representation. A subsidiary claim is that the unit question is an important issue to ...; Created on 29 July 2024
40. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts: (Essay); Allan F. Tatham Taking the Court of Justice of the European Union (especially its procedure of the reference for a preliminary ruling) as providing a suitable model to emulate for courts of other ...; Created on 25 July 2024

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