Issue no. 4 - 2014 October / December

Symposium


”The Law of Global Governance” by Eyal Benvenisti

Sabino Cassese (“Diritto globale o «polity» globale?”), Barbara Marchetti (“I possibili ostacoli a una disciplina unitaria della «governance» globale”), Stefano Battini (“Taking outsiders’ interests into account: il diritto amministrativo e la costituzione globale dell’interdipendenza”) and Lorenzo Casini (“Einbahnstraße? L’«immagine» giuridica della globalizzazione”) discuss the book entitled «The Law of Global Governance», by Eyal Benvenisti. The

Articles


Public Powers under War Legislation

This article focuses on the entire body of Italian legislation concerning war, starting with the law that conferred legislative power upon the Government: Law N. 671 of 22 May 1915. Focusing on the Italian legislation issued during the First World War, the article analyses the purposes and the ideas that inspired the Government’s normative production

The Debtor State

This article develops along two levels. On the one hand, it describes the special and exceptional regime relating to the execution of public monetary obligations, as opposed to private ones. By now, this is a micro-legislative sector, which may be, sometimes, incoherent and illogical, spreading uncertainty on the precise execution of those obligations and therefore

Constitutional Courts and electoral laws in Italy and in Germany

This contribution looks into recent developments in the case laws of the Italian and German constitutional courts concerning voting systems. To do so, it considers, first, the similarities and differences between the Italian and German constitutional systems with regard to voting systems and the right to vote. Until recently, the main differences in this respect

Notes


The Law of the Constitution by A.V. Dicey

This contribution is a book review of the new re-edition of Albert Venn Dicey’s classic work entitled The Law of the Constitution. The author emphasizes the peculiarities of this re-edition. She also displays how Italian legal scholarship has studied Dicey, and identifies two main values in his work: education, and legal comparison.

Review


The use of off-label drugs and pharmaceutical spending in Italy

This article aims to analyse the efforts made to rationalize pharmaceutical spending in Italy, and, more specifically, the use of off-label drugs. This term commonly indicates the possibility of administering drugs for indications that were not included in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC). The article reviews Italian legislation in this field, and analyses its

Book Review


Recensioni
Antonio Maccanico, Con Pertini al Quirinale. Diari 1978-1985, a cura di Paolo Soddu, prefazione di Eugenio Scalfari, Bologna, il Mulino, 2014 (recensioni di Sabino Cassese e di Guido Melis)
David Feldam (ed. by), Law in Politics, Politics in Law, Oxford and Portland, Hart, 2013 (recensione di Nicola Lupo)
Maurice Adams, Federico Fabbrini and Pierre Larouche (eds.), The Constitutionalization of European Budgetary Constraints, Oxford, Hart, 2014 (recensione di Rita Perez)
Gaetano Azzariti, Il costituzionalismo moderno può sopravvivere?, Bari, Laterza, 2013 (recensione di Raffaele Bifulco)
J&uauml;rgen Bast, Aufenthaltsrecht und Migrationssteuerung, T&uauml;bingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2011 (recensione di Francesco Giovanni Albisinni)
Thomas Coendet, Rechtsvergleichende Argumentation. Phänomenologie der Veranderung im rechtlichen Diskurs, T&uauml;bingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2012 (recensione di Stelio Mabgiameli)
Enrico Carloni, L’amministrazione aperta. Regole strumenti limiti dell’open government, Orizzonti di diritto pubblico, n. 6, Maggioli, Rimini, 2014 (recensione di Aldo Sandulli)
Federico Carli (a cura di), La figura e l’opera di Guido Carli, VI.2, Testimonianze, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2014 (recensione di Sabino Cassese)
 
Note bibliografiche
A cura di  Stefano Battini, Bruno Carotti, Elisa D’Alterio, Maurizia De Bellis, Luca De Lucia, Gabriele Mazzantini, Elisabetta Morlino, Guido Rivosecchi, Stelio Mangiameli, Mario Savino, Giulio Vesperini

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