Terse rules, loquacious judges: a critical assessment of forty years of abrogative referendums in Italy

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Terse rules, loquacious judges: a critical assessment of forty years of abrogative referendums in Italy

Summary The Italian institution of the abrogative referendum presents two categories of problems that hamper its practical implementation. The first is the cumbersome nature of the legal regime governing the referendum initiative. The second is the various ways of neutralising the referendum initiative and its results. These problems relate to…

Chris Vermorken2024-02-29

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Central and Eastern Europe between Brussels and Beijing: to BRI or not to BRI?

Brian F. G. Fabrègue – University of Zurich Brian F. G. Fabrègue is Ph.D candidate in law at the University of Zurich and is currently working as Chief Legal Officer for a Swiss fintech company. His main areas of legal expertise are International Taxation, Financial Regulation and Corporate Law. He…

Chris Vermorken2024-02-12

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Chris Vermorken

Christiaan Vermorken (1988) holds a PhD in social and political sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and an LLD from the University of Rome (RomaTre). He has completed graduate studies in law (Brussels), history (Bologna), political science (Brussels/Bucharest), and polemology (London) and has previously held positions as an investment fund lawyer at Clifford Chance, as a freelance legal consultant for various industrial enterprises, as a teaching assistant at the Centre for Public Law of the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and as a legal intern in the Office of the Deputy Secretary General of the European Parliament. Most recently, Christiaan has been active as a full-time legal consultant in heavy industry and as an assistant professor in legal and institutional history at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

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