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1. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); ... a more coherent legal framework. Drawing on Rome’s example and recent legislative efforts, the paper not only advocates for a constitutional reform that moves beyond piecemeal legislation, granting Rome ...; Created on 26 June 2025
2. 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
3. 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
4. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms: (Essay); ... and a comprehensive approach to (fiscal) federalism. Against the wake of an escalating recentralization, a renewed understanding of fiscal decentralization is adopted. This perspective integrates the ...; Created on 25 July 2024
5. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); 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
6. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?: (Notes); Jock Gardiner and Silvia Talavera Lodos The High Court of Australia recently handed down the landmark decision of NZYQ, ruling the policy of indefinitely detaining non-citizen, non-visa holders ...; Created on 05 March 2024
7. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates: (Essay); Nisrine Abiad Although only a young federation, the United Arab Emirates is prosperous and well-functioning, and its success set it apart from numerous unaccomplished federal experiments in the ...; Created on 31 January 2024
8. 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
9. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries: (Essay); ... theory, a senate mediates the relationship between democracy and federalism because it enables subnational participation in national government. Recent literature challenges this assumption and provides ...; Created on 06 December 2022
10. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent: (Essay); This paper forms part of a broader debate on alternative uses of SDRs following the recent General Allocation of August 2021. We intend to highlight the fundamental aspects that a potential reallocation ...; Created on 09 November 2022
11. Time for a Next Generation Africa: (Essay); The recent allocation by the IMF of $650bn in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) triggered a widespread debate on their use for alternative purposes to their usual role as instrument to fix balance of payments ...; Created on 03 November 2022
12. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations: (Essay); This article provides an analysis of the recent negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) for the signature of a ...; Created on 21 January 2021
13. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia: (Essay); In 1991, Colombia shifted from a territorial regime that combined shared rule with limited self-rule to the opposite configuration: extensive self-rule without shared rule. The radical shift between ...; Created on 19 January 2021

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