European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy

Francesco Biagi is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Constitutionalism, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna School of Law, and a Researcher at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development. From October 2015 to January 2017, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law (Heidelberg), where he now works as a legal consultant. He is the co-editor of Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa: Actors and Factors (with Justin O. Frosini, 2015).

• 1. Democratic transitions and constitutional courts; 2. The first generation: the case of the Italian Constitutional Court; 3. The second generation: the case of the Spanish Constitutional Court; 4. The third generation: the case of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic; 5. Comparing three generations; Bibliography; Index.

'Biagi has produced a masterpiece of comparative law. His methodologically careful, crisply analytic study of constitutional courts in Europe deepens our understanding of the role of judicial review in democratic transition. He shows how courts transform politics while securing constitutional democracy.' Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago