Chairs
Tania Groppi tania.groppi@unisi.it / groppi@unisi.it
Irene Spigno irene.spigno@gmail.com
Anna Maria Lecis Cocco Ortu a.m.lecis@sciencespobordeaux.fr

How do Constitutional Courts communicate in the XXI century? And to whom? Previous editions of the Interest Group on “Cross-Judicial Fertilization” analysed the “dialogue” between courts by examining the use of foreign case law in constitutional adjudication. The workshop is aimed at exploring different ways in which constitutional judges engage in “constitutional dialogues”.

Panelists shall discuss:

1) the institutional dimension of courts communication, through their peri- judicial communication (press releases, press conferences, official commentaries and statements) or extra-judicial activity (judicial diplomacy, courts networking, relationships with the academia);

2) the judicial dimension of the communication, considering some aspects of the reasoning revealing the “openness” of the adjudication and the reasoning, such as references to non-legal arguments, to international and foreign judgments, to the contribution of experts or to amicus curiae briefs;

3) the public dimension of the communication, considering the use of social media and the role of courts in contributing to constitutional literacy.