Marta Simoncini

To repeal or not to repeal EU law, this is the question that the UK Government and Parliament will have to respond to in preparation for Brexit. This Post aims to analyse how the UK Government has responded so far to this big question The Post will be published in two Parts. The first Part will analyse the answer provided by the EU Withdrawal Act 2018, whereas the second Part will focus on the recent proposals addressed in the White Paper aimed at legislating for the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union in the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill.

José Ramón Bohon Sosa

Editors’ Note: This second part of a two-part post concerning the Mexican elections, held in early July, examines the power that Mexico’s new president will have at his disposal to shape – possibly radically – policy and governance.

The Mexican elections were held last July 1st. Although the results were foreseeable, it was difficult to predict the magnitude of Obrador’s victory.

Tania Groppi

In a controversial round of appointments, the Italian Parliament chose 21 men to fill all the available seats in the independent constitutional councils for the Judiciary. In response to this action, the female members of the Italian Association of Constitutional Law sent a letter to the Presidents of the two Chambers of Parliament, asking them to guarantee respect for Article 51 of the Italian Constitution (gender equality in public institutions) and transparency in the appointment process. 

José Ramón Bohon Sosa

Editors’ Note: This is the first part of a two-part post concerning the Mexican elections held in early July. Part I discusses the central issue raised about the President-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador: whether he is a populist leader. Part II examines the power that Obrador will have at his disposal to shape – possibly radically – policy and governance.

On July 1 2018, the largest election in Mexican democratic history took place. Voting took place for more than 3,400 positions …

Djordje Gardasevic

A popular initiative calling for a constitutional referendum on the electoral system in Croatia would narrow the scope of parliamentary mandates for representatives of national minorities. It is, however, likely that the Constitutional Court would proclaim the referendum question unconstitutional. The initiative has resurfaced the apparent contradictions between allowing popular initiatives and minority rights and the insufficiency of judicial mechanisms to address minority concerns…

Max Steuer

June is a reliably busy month for the US Supreme Court observers. This year, the usual announcements of decisions in cases of central importance were trumped by an extraordinary one. US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the legendary swing vote on the bench for the last decades, decided to retire effective of 31 July this year.

Chien-Chih Lin

Although recent decades have witnessed the emergence of populism around the globe, several signs suggest that Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China, seems to be resilient to democratic recession. For example, Taiwan just went through its third peaceful party turnover in 2016, and …

Francesco Duranti

Editors’ Note: This is the second part of a two-part post to mark the 70th anniversary of the Constitution of Italy.  Part I, published on Wednesday 18 July, contemplated the trajectory of Italy's Constitution since 1948, from inaugurating a new democracy, to delayed implementation and weathering serious challenges .

This also leads to reflections on the problems shown by the Charter over time and its future prospects. 

Francesco Duranti

Editors’ Note: This is the first part of a two-part post to mark the 70th anniversary of the Constitution of Italy.  Part II, to be published on Friday 20 July, will build on Part I by offering reflections on the problems shown by the Constitution over time and its future prospects.

Since January 1, 1948, more than seventy years of the Italian Constitution have passed. In this long period, which began with the birth of the democratic state in Italy, the Italian Constitution…

Paul Bovend’Eert

For more than thirty years, Dutch politicians have been struggling with the question of whether the constitutional system of representative government in a parliamentary democracy should be strengthened by means of referendums.