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Review Essay: Marta Cartabia And Nicola Lupo, “The Constitution Of Italy: A Contextual Analysis” (2023), Francesca Bignami
Review Essay: Marta Cartabia And Nicola Lupo, “The Constitution Of Italy: A Contextual Analysis” (2023), Francesca Bignami
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In this review essay, I showcase aspects of Marta Cartabia’s and Nicola Lupo’s The Constitution of Italy that set it apart from standard texts and that make it an excellent resource on Italian government and public law. Then, I focus on two elements of the Italian constitutional order that are discussed in the book and that are unique when seen in comparative context—the non-hierarchical organization of the Italian judiciary and the salience of social rights. I argue that future research on these aspects of the Italian case could make an important contribution to cutting-edge debates in the field of comparative …
Extraterritoriality, Francesca Bignami, Giorgio Resta
Extraterritoriality, Francesca Bignami, Giorgio Resta
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This chapter argues that the competing American ballot-box and European fundamental rights paradigms of regulatory law have marked the specific domain of digital regulation. These regulatory paradigms and their associated state interests are projected extraterritorially through the market power of Silicon Valley, on the one hand, and the privacy rights of European Union (EU) regulators, on the other hand. This chapter also analyzes recent developments in the EU, where there is now a state effort to make digital markets and, relatedly, an emerging preference for some data localization to promote both fundamental rights and economic and security interests. In China, …