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Political Extremism and Rationality
2002
Political extremism is widely considered to be the product of irrational behavior. Originally published in 2002, the distinguishing feature of this collection by well-known economists and political scientists from North America, Europe and Australia is to propose a variety of explanations which all insist on the rationality of extremism. Contributors use variants of this approach to shed light on subjects such as the conditions under which democratic parties take extremist positions, the relationship between extremism and conformism, the strategies adopted by revolutionary movements, and the reasons why extremism often leads to violence. The authors identify four core issues in the study of…
El nacionalismo vasco en el marco constitucional de la II República Española (1931-1936)
2019
El presente artículo aborda el recorrido del nacionalismo vasco durante la II República Española y su adecuación al nuevo marco constitucional. En él se explora la centralidad que el PNV tuvo desde el inicio y los recelos que despertó su proyecto hegemónico en Euskadi desde las élites republicanas españolas, que lo consideraban abiertamente contrario a los valores, principios y objetivos de la Constitución de 1931 This article analyzes the life of Basque nationalism during the Second Spanish Republic and its adequation to the new constitutional framework. The author explores the centrality of the Basque Nationalist Party from the very beginning and its rejection by republican Spanish elites…
Weakening Forensic Science in Spain: From Expert Evidence to Documentary Evidence*
2012
An amendment in 2002 to the Spanish Code of Criminal Procedure converted into documentary evidence the expert reports prepared by official laboratories aimed at determining the nature, weight, and purity of seized drugs. In most cases, experts are spared from appearance before the courts. This is likely to be extended to other forensic fields. After an overview of criminalistic identification in current forensic science, the objectivity and reliability concepts used by jurists and scientists are considered by comparing the paradigm of individualization with that of likelihood. Subsequently, a detailed critical study is made on the above-mentioned Spanish legal reform, and a comparison is ma…
Historical Overview of the Romanian Constitutionalism
2011
The history of the Romanian constitution and constitutionalism is closely linked to the 19th and 20th centuries. The 19th century meant the birth of the national unitary Romanian state and the building of the modern constitutional system by way of the massive constitutional transplant from the Western constitutional models. Breaking with the past was abrupt therefore just few ideas, institutions and practices remained as an organic linkage with the political and constitutional past.
Somali Contract Law: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives
2019
The Somali legal system had a very peculiar development. After colonisation, the independent country adopted a Civil law based legal system largely influenced by Italian law. The Civil Code adopted in 1973 was modeled on the Egyptian homologue enriched with other influences, mainly Italian. From the constitutional perspective, the country had three constitutions before the collapse of the state, followed recently by a provisional constitution that introduces a federal system to try to keep the unity of the State under the federal umbrella. The 1973 Somali Civil Code is formally still in force, as after the fall of Siad Barre the state failure brought with it the lack of any authority capabl…
La Sicilia e le sue Costituzioni (1812, 1848, 1860, 1946)
2022
Sicily and its «Constitutions» (1812, 1848, 1860, 1946) The essay highlights the constitutional evolution of Sicily, tracing it back to the British Mediterranean constitutionalism and the condition of the insularity of Sicily: starting from the «ephemeral constitution of 1812», passing through the «inconclusive revolution of 1820» and reaching the «glorious revolution» and the Constitution of 1848, then to the fundamental Charter never born, such as the Statute of 1860, up to the Autonomist Statute of 1946. The latter constitutes the reference of the Sicilian special autonomy in republican Italy, among roots, intuitions, and contradictions.
Right to a court in democratic state ruled by law
2019
W artykule omówiono prawo do sądu w demokratycznym państwie prawnym, które stanowi gwarancję sądowej ochrony praw człowieka przed ich naruszeniem przez organy władzy publicznej. Spełnia ono dwie funkcje: po pierwsze, chroni podmiotowe prawo jednostki i wiąże wszystkie władze publiczne w zakresie ich działania w podporządkowaniu Konstytucji; po drugie, tworzy charakterystyczny system powiązania indywidualnego statusu jednostki i obiektywnego porządku prawnego, wobec tego jest współcześnie traktowane jako składnik demokratycznego państwa prawnego. Konstytucyjne ujęcie prawa do sądu może być rozpatrywane w dwóch znaczeniach: 1) jako zasada prawa konstytucyjnego; 2) jako prawo podmiotowe jednos…
La genitorialita` procreativa nella coppia omoaffettiva (femminile). Riflessioni a margine di Corte cost. n. 221/2019
2020
Il contributo esamina criticamente la sentenza della Corte costituzionale n. 221 del 2019, che ha affermato la legittimità costituzionale delle previsioni della legge 19 febbraio 2004, n. n. 40, che vietano l’accesso alle tecniche di procreazione medicalmente assistita alle coppie dello stesso sesso. Sulla base di una lettura evolutiva delle regole e dei principî costituzionali e convenzionali implicati, il saggio giunge a una diversa soluzione interpretativa, sostenendo la riconoscibilità del diritto alla genitorialità procreativa degli individui ad orientamento omoaffettivo e la sua compatibilità con l’interesse della prole a nascere e a crescere in un nucleo familiare idoneo ad assicurar…
Of Direct Effect, Primacy and Constitutional Identities. Rome and Luxembourg enmeshed in the Taricco Case
2017
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La Carta sociale europea come parametro interposto nella recente giurisprudenza costituzionale: novità e questioni aperte
2019
In two judgments delivered in 2018 (No. 120 and No. 194), the Constitutional Court for the first time referred to provisions of the European Social Charter as an interposed norm in the constitutional review of primary laws. The two judgments, however, leave two questions open. First, in judgment No. 120, the Court recognizes taht the European Social Charter may complement Article 117, paragraph 1, of the Constitution, as it constitutes a natural integration of the European Conventionof Human Rights on the social level, which in fact distinguishes it from "ordinary" international agreements. In its subsequent judgment No. 194, on the other hand, the Court speaks of treaties with constitution…