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1. Towards a next generation of joint borrowing in Europe: (Essay); ... a permanent fiscal capacity, no transfer union. This paper argues that groundbreaking geopolitical and macro-financial shifts call for reassessing at least some of these boundaries, today. In a world where ...; Created on 02 February 2026
2. Responsibility without Power: Federalism and the Dilemma of Internal Security Management in Nigeria: (Essay); ... the security forces. This paper examines how lopsided security responsibilities and powers of federal and component units contribute to widespread insecurity in contemporary Nigerian society. Using both ...; Created on 28 November 2025
3. Cities challenging federalism: how subsidiarity can help: (Essay); Chiara Salati This paper explores the challenge that cities pose to federalism. Cities are increasingly emerging as sites not only of institutional pluralism, but also of social pluralism where ...; Created on 26 November 2025
4. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Gender-Based Violence: (Essay); ... violence. The paper examines the nature of gender-based violence and the various forms in which it is perpetrated. It also evaluates the legal regulation of artificial intelligence on international level. ...; Created on 26 September 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. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); ... from that, the paper provides for a nuanced account of the relationship between the two concepts by developing its argument in three steps. First, it defines the two concepts and highlights that secession ...; Created on 31 July 2024
11. 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
12. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); ... This paper therefore examines how crises mitigating measures and multilevel governance contexts impact political trust. We study this question by means of a systematic literature review of 48 papers searched ...; Created on 11 June 2024
13. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?: (Essay); ... system such as solidarity, collaboration, and its specific manifestations (cooperation, coordination, and mutual aid). This paper examines the various manifestations of this principle in the Statutes ...; Created on 30 April 2024
14. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); ... countries of the world, sub-national constitutional law and its importance in the constitutional order are being (re)discovered. The main aim of this paper is to study the delimitation of the sub-national ...; Created on 12 March 2024
15. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration: (Essay); ... case study of the deteriorating Hungary-EU relationship this paper focuses on the conceptual explanation for the measures taken by the Union in response to the decline of democracy in Hungary and Hungary’s ...; Created on 22 January 2024
16. An Inconvenient truth: the narrow trade-off between Equity and Climate Security: (Essay); This paper explores the narrow trade-off between climate mitigation policy, growth and income inequality, by examining the empirical evidence on the equity-pollution dilemma faced by policymakers when ...; Created on 17 October 2023
17. 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
18. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay: (Essay); ... measures adopted in the CSDP framework. The paper maps the relevant practice, with a focus on command and control structures, and examines the relationship between these forms of cooperation and EU law. ...; Created on 30 May 2023
19. Earmarking grants in a federal polity: (Essay); ... governments in federalist countries claim that earmarked resources can better achieve policy goals. This discussion paper evaluates the goal attainments in a billion-worth program for higher education ...; Created on 21 November 2022
20. 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

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