Book Launch: "Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context"
A presentation of the newly published book Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context (Oxford University Press, 2016) by Kellogg Institute Director and Professor of Law Paolo Carozza, together with coauthors Vittoria Barsotti, Marta Cartabia, and Andrea Simoncini
Panelists
Hon. Samuel Alito
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
Anthony J. Bellia
O’Toole Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Notre Dame
Andrea Simoncini
Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Florence and former Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context offers a comprehensive analysis of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC), including its principal lines of jurisprudence, historical origins, organization, procedures, and its current engagement with transnational European law.
The ItCC represents one of the world’s strongest and most successful examples of constitutional judicial review and has developed a distinctive voice among global constitutional actors, both in its model and methods of judicial review and in its adjudication of a broad range of topics, from fundamental rights and liberties to the allocations of governmental power and regionalism.
This study, the first book published in English on the Italian Constitutional Court, makes it possible for the ItCC to enter the global judicial dialogue in a much more powerful way. The authors aim to elevate Italian constitutional jurisprudence to an active participant role in transnational constitutional discourse.
The event is organized by the Constitutional Studies program in the Department of Political Science and cosponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. During his visit to the University of Notre Dame, Justice Alito will hold the Clynes Chair in Judicial Ethics at the Law School.
Paolo G. Carozza
Previously the director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (2012-2022), Paolo Carozza is professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. With expertise in comparative constitutional law, human rights, law and development, and international law, he focuses his research on Latin America, Western Europe, and international themes more broadly...
Andrea Simoncini
Distinguished Research Affiliate Andrea Simoncini is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Florence. As a constitutional scholar whose work is internationally well known, Simoncini focuses his research on Italian and European constitutional law, developmental dynamics of the sources of law, social rights, and the study of the interrelations between natural law and positive legal systems...
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, April 1, 1950. He married Martha-Ann Bomgardner in 1985, and has two children - Philip and Laura. He served as a law clerk for Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1976–1977. He was Assistant U.S...