Title:Extraordinary Renditions and the State Secret Privilege: Italy and the United States compared
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The purpose of this article is to analyze the application of the State secret privilege in litigations concerning cases of extraordinary renditions in Italy and the United States (US). The article addresses the decision ...
Title:Il pareggio di bilancio nelle costituzioni europee
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The note analyzes the introduction of a bilance budget constitutional amendment in the Spanish and French Constitutions and the EU law framework for these domestic reforms.
Title:Lotta al terrorismo: Da Bush a Obama, passando per la Corte Suprema
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article contextualizes the United States (US) counter-terrorism policies from 2001 to the present in light of the peculiar US constitutional system of separation and balance of powers. It argues that the unprecedented ...
Title:Voting Rights for Non-Citizens: The European Multilevel and US Federal Constitutional Systems Compared
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article analyzes the regulation of voting rights for non-citizens in the European multilevel architecture and in the US constitutional systems. It argues that the interaction between different state and transnational ...
Title:La composizione del Parlamento Europeo dopo il Trattato di Lisbona
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article analyzes the modifications in the composition of the European Parliament introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, the technical difficulties produced by the entry into force of the Treaty after the European elections ...
Title:Il procedimento di nomina dei giudici della Corte Suprema USA in prospettiva comparata
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article analyzes the nomination procedure of United States (US) Supreme Court justices in a comparative perspective with the appointment processes of the judges of the Italian Constitutional Court and of the French ...
Title:La Corte di Giustizia e la cittadinanza dell’Unione: nota alla sentenza Rottmann
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The case note analyzes the decision of the ECJ in Case C-135/08 Rottmann, holding that Germany had not violated EU citizenship rules by depriving of the German citizenship (and thus of EU citizenship) an Austrian national ...
Title:Pregiudizialità costituzionale: la riforma francese è contraria al diritto dell’Unione europea?
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The case note analyzes the decision of the French Court of Cassation of 16 April 2010 to raise a preliminary reference to the ECJ questioning whether the new French system of a posteriori constitutional review of legislation ...
Title:Intelligence Agencies and the State Secret Privilege: The Italian experience
Author(s):GIUPPONI, Tommaso F.; FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article analyzes the new Italian legal regime on the State secret privilege and the case law of the Italian Constitutional Court umpiring conflicts between the judiciary and the executive branch on the assertion of the ...
Title:'Reasonableness' as a Test for Judicial Review of Legislation in the French Constitutional Council
Author(s):FABBRINI, FedericoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article analyzes the emergence of a “reasonableness” review in the jurisprudence of the French Constitutional Council. With the notion of “reasonableness” review the article identifies a pervasive standard of review ...
