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1. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?: (Essay); ... of Autonomy, many of which have included references to loyalty since the reforms introduced at the beginning of this century. The aim of this study is to demonstrate whether these references have a legal ...; Created on 30 April 2024
2. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher: (Essay); ... in Federal Systems and Its Implications, in relation to some of the major issues raised by the entry into force of the CRPD. From a legal-philosophical perspective, it is interesting to consider the impact ...; Created on 14 November 2023
3. The International Climate Legal Regime and the Role of the AFOLU Sector: (Essay); Roberto Talenti It has been years now that the scientific community is warning about the gravity of climate change consequences and about the need to effectively respond to it. However, the climate ...; Created on 17 September 2021
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation: (Essay); ... of the legal challenges against the Legacy Act 2023, assessing the impact of these decisions on the process of reconciliation in Northern Ireland as well as the ECHR system of human rights protection. ...; Created on 18 June 2025
8. 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
9. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Final Remarks: (Essay); 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
10. 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
11. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); ... As Jellinek (ibid: 768) put it, ‘political suicide is not a legal category.’ And yet secession within today's globalised world can be also seen as just ‘another form of subsidiarity – a claim about the ...; Created on 31 July 2024
12. 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
13. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); ... for in political science or legal research. The goal of this research is to systematize and integrate knowledge of distinct strands of research, searching for overlaps, in order to get more insight in ...; Created on 11 June 2024
14. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab: (Essay); ... is, given the Grundlov's silence on mechanisms for its interpretation. In any case, the home rule model presents weak internal organization in its development and legal uncertainty, which may also manifest ...; Created on 18 April 2024
15. Independence in the European Union: (Essay); ... Scotland or the Basque Country. After tracing this telos to the federal nature of the European Union, this essay analyses the legal arguments which support the claim to political independence of those ...; Created on 21 March 2024
16. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay: (Essay); ... Based on a comparison with other policy areas, the paper argues that the incorporation of EUROCORPS and other intergovernmental defence cooperation initiatives within the EU legal order would not require ...; Created on 30 May 2023
17. 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
18. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries: (Essay); ... The paper discusses how to overcome current legal challenges to facilitate the reallocation of the SDRs held by Euro area countries to an ambitious Next Generation Africa plan. Paper originally published ...; Created on 08 November 2022
19. Climate Change and the Livestock Sector’s Mitigation Potential: A Seized Opportunity for the International Climate Regime?: (Essay); ... while there is a plethora of scientific studies focusing on the necessity to mitigate livestock sector’s emissions through a reduction of animal-food consumption and production, the number of legal and ...; Created on 26 July 2022
20. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem: (Essay); ... agency relationships within the European Union, and presents legal and political solutions of the founding treaties which aim to tackle the agency issues. Furthermore, the study analyzes two fundamental ...; Created on 21 October 2021

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