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1. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); ... 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
2. Introduction to the Symposium on “Capital Cities Shaping National Constitutional Identities”: (Essay); Ylenia Maria Citino and Giacomo Delledonne "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters ...; Created on 25 June 2025
3. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?: (Editorial); Roberto Castaldi The debate on European defence seems confused. This is due to the fact that when member states cannot deal with a supranational problem, which requires at least European, if not ...; Created on 09 May 2025
4. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts: (Essay); ... regional integration through judicial dialogue. This work will examine their pertinent case law instrumental in nurturing judicial dialogue with both national courts as well as with the Luxembourg Court, ...; Created on 25 July 2024
5. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’: (Essay); ... seem to frame all the facets of the asymmetrical demands of national minorities in those federalising processes called ‘regional states’. This article introduces the concept of ‘spearheaded asymmetry’ ...; Created on 24 July 2024
6. 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
7. Comments on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ‘The intersection of International Law and the competences relating of PWD in federal systems’: (Essay); The aim of this article is to comment on Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications edited by Delia Ferri, Francesco ...; Created on 14 November 2023
8. The Spanish model of protection of rights within the subnational level: a crossroad between the German and Italian cases: (Essay); 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
9. Climate Change and the Livestock Sector’s Mitigation Potential: A Seized Opportunity for the International Climate Regime?: (Essay); Climate change is destined to remain a central topic of the international political agenda for the decades to come. Several climate negotiations have been conducted over the last three decades, and a ...; Created on 26 July 2022
10. Subnational Courts of Last Resort in Germany and the USA: (Essay); In this article I explore the judicial dimension of federal systems from a subnational perspective. The findings show that regardles of the type of federalism subnational courts of last resort ...; Created on 28 September 2021
11. The International Climate Legal Regime and the Role of the AFOLU Sector: (Essay); ... crisis just seems to get worse over time. Facing this crisis is terribly difficult for at least two reasons. Firstly, climate change is a phenomenon which is both transnational and global in its nature, ...; Created on 17 September 2021
12. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...; Created on 26 June 2025
13. 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
14. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi: (Essay); ... Modi used Nehru’s tactics (jacket) to impose PR impositions particularly against opposition-ruled states to counter dissent and empower single party-personality hegemony at national and provincial levels. ...; Created on 20 November 2024
15. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods: (Essay); Guido Montani This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense ...; Created on 24 October 2024
16. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession: (Essay); ... the Constitution, allows the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (NNPs) of Ethiopia, the term the Constitution uses to refer to ethnic groups, to establish their own states, at any time. The right to internal ...; Created on 01 August 2024
17. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); ... right level for governance within a complex, multi-layered system that extends from the personal through the local, regional, state, transnational and international.’ (Waters 2020:227). Taking the cue ...; Created on 31 July 2024
18. 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
19. 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
20. Federalism and institutional structure: (Editorial); ... hand, in several member states, including France and Germany, the vote resulted in a major setback for the ruling political parties, with obvious implications on the political authority of some national ...; Created on 22 March 2024

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