ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- Second chambers are often designed to represent territorial interests, but they are prone to being taken over by political parties which undermines legislators’ territorial focus. In traditional federal ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 2. Paris: Epitome or Blind Spot of the Constitutional Identity of France?
- (Essay)
- ... of the country. The paper is organised around two main axes: first, the specific features of the legal status of Paris within the French legal order, and second, how this contributes to shaping the constitutional ...
- Created on 27 June 2025
- 3. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation
- (Essay)
- ... the Irish government lodged an inter-state appeal against the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the second time since the 1978 judgment on Ireland v. United Kingdom (I) ...
- Created on 18 June 2025
- 4. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
- (Essay)
- ... may occur at various tiers within a federal system. Second, it reviews how federal constitutional orders deal with secession in the different levels. Third, although it accepts that constitutional orders ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 5. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
- (Essay)
- ... economic communities in Africa. The model’s evident utility for these Community courts has assisted them in their own tasks of interpreting Community primary and secondary laws as well as in furthering ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 6. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
- (Essay)
- ... by fostering national unity. The study focuses on arrangements at constitutional and legal level, including also secondary legislation with the final aim of evaluating if and to what extent the Canadian ...
- Created on 25 November 2022
- 7. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
- (Essay)
- ... in Germany, the higher-education pact (2007—2020). Two key objectives were concerned with the program: Firstly, to enhance teaching quality, measured by the student-faculty ratio—secondly, the promotion ...
- Created on 21 November 2022
- 8. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
- (Essay)
- ... countries at an aggregate level, especially after the outbreak of the pandemic. The second part provides an approximate estimate of the impact of Next Generation Africa on aggregate economic growth and ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 9. By Way of Introduction
- (Editorial)
- ... in September and October 2021. The second sessions are now set to start. Aside from its outcome, it is hard to underestimate the relevance of the Conference process, an experiment in participatory democracy ...
- Created on 22 September 2021
- 10. The International Climate Legal Regime and the Role of the AFOLU Sector
- (Essay)
- ... hence all relevant international actors will need to cooperate with each other in order to address it. Secondly, there is a number of sectors contributing to the global emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) ...
- Created on 17 September 2021
- 11. Ethnolinguistic federalism and interborder conflict in Ethiopia
- (Essay)
- This study examines the interplay between federalism and interborder conflict between the Tigrai and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. To this effect, secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative, ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 12. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
- (Essay)
- ... by transforming the Senate into a body that would be elected in a single nationwide district. Second, what explains the instability of self-rule without shared rule in the years after 1991 when the opposite ...
- Created on 19 January 2021