Dialogues on Italian Constitutional Justice

<p>This collection adopts a distinctive method and structure to introduce the work of Italian constitutional law scholars into the Anglophone dialogue while also bringing a number of prominent non-Italian constitutional law scholars to study and write about constitutional justice in a global context. </p><p>The work presents six distinct areas of particular interest from a comparative constitutional perspective: first the role of legal scholarship in the work of constitutional courts; second structures and processes that contribute to more “open” or “closed” styles of constitutional adjudication; third pros and cons of collegiality in the work of constitutional courts; fourth forms of access by individuals to constitutional justice; fifth methods of constitutional interpretation; and sixth the relationship between national constitutional adjudication and the transnational context. In each of these six areas the volume sets up a new and genuine constitutional dialogue between an Italian scholar presenting a discussion and critical assessment of the specific topic and a non-Italian scholar who responds elaborating the issue as seen from constitutional law beyond the Italian system. The resulting six such dialogues thus provide a dynamic in-depth multidimensional national and transnational/comparative examination of these areas in which the `Italian style’ of constitutional adjudication has a distinctive contribution to make to comparative constitutional law in general. </p><p>Fostering a deeper knowledge of the Italian Constitutional Court within the comparative global space and advancing a creative and fruitful methodological approach the book will be fascinating reading for academics and researchers in comparative constitutional law.</p>