The paper deals with the issue of abortion law in a comparative perspective. Despite the scientific progress, the regulation of abortion represents an insidious field, which involves extra legal issues, such as the status recognized to the unborn, the freedom of choice of the woman and the right to life of the unborn. Moreover, since...
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Social Rights Adjudication in Time of Economic Crisis and Institutional Interdependence
We are witnessing a deep transformation of our constitutional systems: the uncontestable crisis of the social democratic states goes hand in hand with the affirmation of a new global, supranational, transnational, multilevel constitutional order characterized, on one side, by a growing interdependence among national states and on the other side by the shift of authoritative...
The Separation of Powers from an Evolutionary Perspective: Reconciling Power and Freedom
Arguably no idea has been more central to democratic government than the separation of powers. In essence, we can distinguish two models of separation of powers: the “classic“ model emerged in reaction to the centralization of powers typical of absolutist states as an effort to protect individual liberties and. the “social“ model which reflects the...