Giuseppe de Vergottini, Oltre il dialogo fra le Corti, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010
| Autor | Giuseppe Martinico |
| Páginas | 121-124 |
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Giuseppe de Vergottini,
Oltre il dialogo fra le Corti
, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010.
Giuseppe Martinico
This brilliant book, by one of the Honorary Presidents of the International Association of Constitutional Law,
now Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna, originates from the debate about comparative law and
judicial dialogue at the 2009 Biannual Conference of the Italian Association of Comparative Law, held in
Urbino. As de Vergottini points out in the first pages of the Introduction, this brief volume aims at verifying,
with the methodological rigour of the comparative lawyer, the appropriateness of the abused formula “judicial
dialogue” and, more in general, to examine the relationship between comparative law and judicial dial ogue.
The goal of this short book review is, firstly, to illustrate briefly the structure of this book and, secondly, to
focus on some recent attempts to “specify” the idea of judi cial dialogue w hich might be read together with
this essay. The book is divided into two parts, and contains seven chapters (plus the Introduction, the Premise
and the Final Remarks). The first part is entitled “From the Common Cultural Space to the Presumed
Dialogue among Judges” and here de Vergottini starts from the issue of convergence between legal orders
and the impact of such a convergence process on the case law of the Constitutional Courts.
Judicial dialogue is a phenomenon well known in all the branches of the legal discipline a nd the literature
devoted to it is indeed massive. At the same time, as the author stresses in the very first pages of the book,
such a notion is very far from being understood in a homogenous way and some attempts at classification
(such as, for instance, the distinction between direct and indirect dialogues) are very soon abandoned in this
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