ECJ direct tax cases and domestic constitutional principles: an overview / Claudio Sacchetto -- Double taxation and EC law / Michael Lang -- Nondiscrimination from the perspective of the OECD model and the EC treaty: structural and conceptual issues / Kees van Raad -- The US Supreme Court's...

This paper examines the foundations of the Italian Constitutional Court's authority by comparing it with that of the German Federal Constitutional Court. In comparison to the German Court, la Corte had to build its authority on a particularly weak legal basis. However, it succeeded in developing...