In this post, network member Pietro Faraguna (Ferrara) reviews an important new work on the history and jurisprudence of the Italian Constitutional Court from Oxford University Press.Further information about this volume can be found here.
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Review of Vittoria Barsotti, Paolo G. Carozza, Marta Cartabia, and Andrea Simoncini, Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context (Oxford 2015)
Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context fills a major gap in the international legal literature that has long isolated the Italian constitutional system from global debates amongst scholars of public law. Remarkably, the last comprehensive work written in English on the Italian system of constitutional justice dates from the 1970s: Mauro Cappelletti’s 1971 volume Judicial Review in the Contemporary World. This prolonged lack of accessible scholarship in English struck an odd note, particularly when compared with the vibrant debate amongst public lawyers about the role of constitutional courts in legal orders throughout Europe and worldwide. A lack of English-language literature on the Italian Constitutional Court has muted a potentially influential voice with much to contribute to the global judicial dialogue.