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The Battle To Establish An Adversarial Trial System In Italy, William T. Pizzi, Mariangela Montagna
The Battle To Establish An Adversarial Trial System In Italy, William T. Pizzi, Mariangela Montagna
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article is intended to bring the U.S. legal community up to date on the attempt in Italy to put in place a more accusatorial trial system. The Article is divided into three sections. Section I describes the central provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure that was adopted in 1988. It shows that a close look at the Italian system reveals that it was never intended to be an exact model of either the U.S. or English trial systems, because it always contained central features that are found in civil law systems on the continent. Rather, the changes in …
The Italian Constitutional Court And The Relationship Between The Italian Legal System And The European Community, Mart Cartabia
The Italian Constitutional Court And The Relationship Between The Italian Legal System And The European Community, Mart Cartabia
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article will address how it has been possible that the same Court, interpreting the same Constitution and facing the same problems, has come to such contradictory conclusions, and will assess the impact of such conclusions on the institutional relationship between the EC and Italy.