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1. Paris: Epitome or Blind Spot of the Constitutional Identity of France?: (Essay); Giacomo Delledonne This short piece aims to make sense of the place of Paris within the French constitutional order and to analyse the role of the capital city in defining the constitutional identity ...; Created on 27 June 2025
2. 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
3. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); ... paper identifies key constitutional and administrative patterns across Europe, drawing on Council of Europe frameworks and comparative analyses. It highlights variations in capital city models – ranging ...; Created on 26 June 2025
4. Introduction to the Symposium on “Capital Cities Shaping National Constitutional Identities”: (Essay); ... of the steps..." — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972) Capital cities, like the imagined metropolises in Calvino’s Invisible Cities, are palimpsests of constitutional meaning and can indeed be referred ...; Created on 25 June 2025
5. 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
6. 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
7. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order: (Essay); ... the fundamentals of Canadian constitutional democracy and the rule of law. A former secessionist government in Quebec had used the sovereignty concept to claim a right to unilaterally declare independence ...; Created on 31 July 2024
8. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab: (Essay); ... their home rule arrangements since 1948 and 1979, respectively. The constitutional entrenchment of these arrangements has been questioned by a significant sector of Danish scholarship. This article contends ...; Created on 18 April 2024
9. 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
10. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?: (Notes); ... with no prospects of resettlement to be unconstitutional. As governments around the world grapple with the challenges posed by mass migration, this article considers the consequences of the High Court ...; Created on 05 March 2024
11. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?: (Note); ... other words, can the right to conscientious objection be defended even when the criteria of constitutional and personal importance are not met? I will also try to show how, in this case, not only Article ...; Created on 09 April 2025
12. Energotehnica: Primacy and Effective Judicial Protection Beyond the Rule of Law Crisis: (Note); ... (C-792/22) reaffirms the primacy of EU law over national constitutional court rulings, explicitly declaring Romania’s Constitutional Court decision on the binding force of administrative findings in criminal ...; Created on 04 December 2024
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. Federalism and the Unit Question: (Essay); ... of constitutional design and constitutional theory. The essay is divided in three parts. Part 1 introduces federal units in general and looks at the distinction between physical (geographical) and authority ...; Created on 29 July 2024
17. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms: (Essay); Alice Valdeslici The paper endeavors to revise and reframe the traditional categories established in the studies on fiscal federalism. It does so by embracing a comparative constitutional law viewpoint ...; Created on 25 July 2024
18. What Can Asymmetric Federalism and Differentiation in EU Law Learn From Each Other? Asymmetric Federalism as an Explanatory Model for Differentiation in EU Law: (Essay); ... subnational (constitutional) identity in the studies on asymmetric federalism, have the potential to provide a more exact analytical model which would better explain the dynamics of accommodation of diversity ...; Created on 23 July 2024
19. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?: (Essay); Gonzalo Gabriel Carranza The federal loyalty in Spain is an unwritten constitutional principle that binds the State and the Autonomous Communities in their intergovernmental relations, as well ...; Created on 30 April 2024
20. The Spanish model of protection of rights within the subnational level: a crossroad between the German and Italian cases: (Essay); ... assumption came from two important constitutional reforms. Germany is a clear example of a federal State that has recognized subjective rights for years in the constitutions of the Länder, and that is ...; Created on 30 January 2023

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