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The commons: an innovative basis for transnational environmental law in the era of Anthropocene? The case of Latin America
(Domenico Giannino and Antonio Manzoni/Essay)
(Domenico Giannino and Antonio Manzoni/Essay)
... era: the Anthropocene. The increasing detrimental conditions of most natural ecosystems has elicited the birth in recent decades of a new category of fundamental human rights – strictly coupled with ...
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Attempts to change the British House of Lords into a second chamber of the nations and regions: explaining a history of failed reforms
(Meg Russell/Essay)
(Meg Russell/Essay)
... programme. Hence for decades, and particularly the last 20 years, devolution and Lords reform have both been on the UK’s political agenda. Throughout this time attempts to create a ‘second chamber of the ...
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Constitutional Judges and Secession. Lessons from Canada … twenty years later
(Irene Spigno/Essay)
(Irene Spigno/Essay)
... Over the last decades, the referendum has been the instrument used by minority groups to claim their independence supported by popular will. This paper examines trends in constitutional jurisprudence on ...
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The Canadian Living Tree Doctrine as a Comparative Model of Evolutionary Constitutional Interpretation
(Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
(Leonardo Pierdominici/Essay)
This paper starts with a general contextualisation of how Canadian constitutional law acquired an important role in global constitutional conversations in recent decades. It then considers, in particular, ...
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National parliaments fighting back? Institutional engineering as a successful means to become active actors in EU affairs
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
The European integration process has long been characterised by the predominance of national executive powers. National parliaments were recognised as European actors after several decades only, in the ...
... been unimaginable only a decade ago. Yet, the average European citizen is still hardly aware of their existence. Some reforms or political actions – such as recognizing individual membership, or sponsoring ...
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On the Brink of a Federal State? The Decentralisation Model of the Peruvian Constitution
(Maria Bertel/Essay)
(Maria Bertel/Essay)
... this domain. More than a decade later, the decentralisation process is still work in progress. In this article, I will analyse the relevant case law of the Constitutional Court and the most important constitutional ...
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European Citizens… Mind the Gap! Some Reflections on Participatory Democracy in the EU
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
... of the involvement of people and civil society in decision-making remains contentious, more than a decade after the publication of the 2001 White Paper on European Governance, the method of increasing ...
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Subconstitutionalism in a Multilayered System. A Comparative Analysis of Constitutional Politics in the German Länder
(Astrid Lorenz - Werner Reutter/Essay)
(Astrid Lorenz - Werner Reutter/Essay)
Even though there have been some revaluations of the Länder in the last two decades German debates on federalism hardly take subnational constitutional politics into account. For example, textbooks on ...
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Subnational Constitutionalism in The Sars of the People’s Republic Of China. An Exceptional Tailored Suit Model?
(Paulo Cardinal - Yihe Zhang/Essay)
(Paulo Cardinal - Yihe Zhang/Essay)
... of similarity. However, the dynamics of constitutionalism show certain divergences that appeared in the two regions with a first decade of evolutionary praxis pointing to somehow different avenues that ...
Participation is a fundamental principle of the Italian Constitution (art. 3). Nonetheless its enforcement was rather weak in the first decades of Italian Republic. Only from the nineties on – especially ...
... of democracy: representative, direct and participatory, in the framework of the new generation of Statutes passed last decade in both countries. Instruments of participation are introduced in the decision-making ...
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Cooperation or Silent Rivalry? The EU and the USA in the Mediterranean – The Case of Egypt
(Wolfgang Zank/Essay)
(Wolfgang Zank/Essay)
For decades the US has had a hegemonic position in the Middle East. A key country in this respect has been Egypt. However, in recent decades the EU has made itself increasingly felt in the region. Due ...
The article analyses the issue of monetary integration in Asia taking into account the most recent literature and the main contributes of the last decades both in economics and IR. It locates the debate ...