Constitutional Adjudication in a Comparative Perspective

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Constitutional adjudication is a key feature of legal systems. It provides them with instruments of concrete application and implementation of fundamental rights. There is no shortage of types of constitutional adjudication, each of them corresponding to disparate functions within legal systems. Comparative constitutional scholarship has devoted much attention to classifications and typology of constitutional adjudication models. Understanding them is crucial to appreciate the functioning of legal systems in light of increasing interaction among them. Against this backdrop, the course explores constitutional adjudication in a comparative perspective, by identifying models and providing examples of decisions in hard cases. In doing so, the course highlights how constitutional adjudication tells us something of both the constitutional culture and the concrete functioning of a legal system.