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)
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- 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. London: The Past, Present, and Future of the Seat of Constitutional Monarchy
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- Oliver Garner London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. This unitary state is composed of four constituent nations under the ‘devolution’ arrangements, that may be regarded as ‘asymmetric ...
- Created on 08 July 2025
- 3. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
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- ... recognized as a unique territorial entity with enhanced powers. The study further stresses on the need to reconcile Rome’s dual identity, as both a national symbol and a functioning urban center, through ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 4. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi
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- 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
- 5. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods
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- ... career as an international economist. Today, the period since the end of the Cold War is degenerating into a dangerous international anarchy between great and small powers. A reform of the IMF is now necessary ...
- Created on 24 October 2024
- 6. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong
- (Essay)
- ... non-territorial autonomy. Indeed, the Nouméa Agreement provided the New Caledonian divided society with a power-sharing system that up to 2021 worked well. It recognizes the ‘Kanak people’ and ‘shared ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 7. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession
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- ... and administrative efficiency. Moreover, according to the procedures outlined in Article 47(3), it appears as though the federal and state governments are not empowered to play a decisive role in the internal ...
- Created on 01 August 2024
- 8. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
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- ... government. This article argues that these laws are being used to win or keep political power or to get the federal government to limit their legitimate roles in key areas. Finally, the article will discuss ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 9. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions
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- ... constitutional space, through the bases and limits placed on local constituent power by the Argentine federal constitution. Another aim is to unravel the foundations of Argentine sub-national constitutional ...
- Created on 12 March 2024
- 10. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates
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- ... region. On the occasion of the golden jubilee of the UAE’s 1971 establishment, this article aims to understand what model of distribution of powers is designed in the UAE and to what extent it is possible ...
- Created on 31 January 2024
- 11. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher
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- ... of the CRPD on the reformulation of legal concepts and the redefinition of power relations. Although not all the issues identified have a direct impact on the federal set-up of legal systems that have ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 12. The Spanish model of protection of rights within the subnational level: a crossroad between the German and Italian cases
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- The territorial entities of the federal States carry out an essential work in terms of protection of rights and freedoms. The recognition of subnational declarations, their development through ordinary ...
- Created on 30 January 2023
- 13. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems
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- ... and reform. Advocates must also recognize and counter conservative actors stifling reform through multiple access points. The article further considers federal countries where the power to regulate abortion ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 14. European Taxes and Fiscal Justice: Citizens’ Support and Lessons from the US
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- ... we use the term ‘fiscalization’ which implies the power to tax, rather than ambiguous terms such as ‘Eurozone budget’. History of federations, such as the US, teaches us that some types of taxes can only ...
- Created on 30 March 2021
- 15. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
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- Immediately after the formation of the state of Kerala, general election was held to the Kerala State Legislative Assembly. In this election, the communists came to power in Kerala. This was the first ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 16. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
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- ... these two hybrid configurations generates two distinct but related theoretical puzzles. First, why did the 1991 constitution simultaneously empower Colombia’s constituent units with self-rule only to disempower ...
- Created on 19 January 2021
- 17. Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation in Federal Systems
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- ... powers and the organisation of the judiciary. An important question regards the interrelation with the principle of uniformity of the jurisdiction and the general legal system of the State. According to ...
- Created on 12 December 2020