European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy

"Transitions to democracy, on the one hand, and constitutional justice, on the other, are topics that, each in its specific domain, have been the subject of numerous in-depth studies. This book brings together these two fields of research by examining the role played by the three generations of European constitutional courts in the processes of transition to democracy that took place in Europe in the twentieth century. The main aim of the book is to examine in a comparative perspective how the constitutional courts of these three generations managed to ensure through their judgments an initial full implementation of the constitutional provisions, thus contributing - together with other actors and factors - to the positive outcome of the democratization processes. The intention is to better understand, from the perspective of constitutional courts, the relationship between transitions to democracy and constitutionalism"