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...

Papers presented at the Seminar on "Central Authority versus Federal Autonomy: Problems of Centre State Relations in India and Germany" on 14 and 15 Oct. 1994 and National Symposium on "Re-orienting Federalism" on 3 and 4 December 1996 in Chennai, India