R. Masterman and R. Schütze, The Cambridge Companion

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Argomenti del programma: The course will include an introductory session, one on comparative methods, and a few weeks in which the main theoretical concepts of the subject (legal families, constitutions and constitutionalism, Forms of State, Forms of Government, Type of State, Constitutional Retrogression, multilevel constitutions etc.) will be explored.

Argomenti del programma: The course will focus on some of the main issues and problems of contemporary constitutionalism. After a methodological introduction, it will start with an overview of the constitutional cycles. In this context, the key features of the contemporary constitutional State will be discussed, with particular reference to the instruments that ensure constitutional effectiveness and entrenchment, such as constitutional…

Argomenti del programma: The course will focus on some of the main issues and problems of contemporary constitutionalism. After a methodological introduction, it will start with an overview of the constitutional cycles. In this context, the key features of the contemporary constitutional State will be discussed, with particular reference to the instruments that ensure constitutional effectiveness and entrenchment, such as constitutional…

Argomenti del programma: The course will focus on some of the main issues and problems of contemporary constitutionalism. After a methodological introduction, it will start with an overview of the constitutional cycles. In this context, the key features of the contemporary constitutional State will be discussed, with particular reference to the instruments that ensure constitutional effectiveness and entrenchment, such as constitutional…