Judicial Review and Electoral Law in a Global Perspective

Foreword
Richard H Pildes (New York University, USA)

1. Introduction
Cristina Fasone (LUISS University, Italy), Edmondo Mostacci (University of Genova, Italy) and Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy)

Part I - Theoretical and Methodological Issues
2. Democracy and Elections
Pasquale Pasquino (New York University, USA)

3. The Moral Wrong in Partisan Gerrymandering - A Review
Emmanuel Voyakis (London School of Economics, UK)

Part II - The European Context
4. Electoral Challenges and the Doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty
Bob Watt (University of Oxford, UK)

5. Judicial Review of Representative Democracy: The French Demographic Perspective
Eleonora Bottini (Universite de Caen Normandie, France)

6. Proportional Representation and Electoral Equality in Germany Constitutional Thinking and Case Law
Giacomo Delledonne (Sant'Anna University, Italy) and Bastian Michel (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

7. The Italian Constitutional Court and Electoral Law: After the Landmark Judgments no 1 of 2024 and no 35 of 2017
Paolo Passaglia (University of Pisa, Italy)

8. Electoral Legislation in the Visegrad Countries. A Limited Judicial Activism in a Constitution-Making Dominated Subject
Jan Sawicki (Catholic University, Milan, Italy)

9. The Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights on Electoral Matters: Towards a Minimal Procedural Conception of Representative Democracy?
Robert Bray (European Law Institute, Austria) and Cristina Fasone (LUISS University, Italy)

Part III - Beyond Europe
10. Judicial Review and Presidential Elections in Africa
Berihun Adugna Gebeye (University College London, UK)

11. Electoral Constitutional Justice as the Tool to Protect Mexican Democracy
Irene Spigno (Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico)

12. Electoral Justice and the Supreme Federal Court in Brazilian Democracy
Lucas Henrique Muniz da Conceicao (Bocconi University, Italy)

13. Election Law, Judicial Review, and Canadian Democracy
Sarah Burton (University of Ottowa, Canada) and Michael Pal (University of Ottowa, Canada)

14. Challenging Political Equality in Electoral Legislation: The Case of the US Supreme Court
Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy) and Davide Zecca (University of Milan, Italy)

15. Judicial Review, Electoral Laws and Democracy in India
Rekha Diwakar (University of Sussex, UK)

16. The Japanese Supreme Court and the Equality of the Vote: A Careful Activism
Elisa Bertolini (Bocconi University, Italy)

17. Judicial Review and Elections in Australia
Julian R Murphy (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Erika Arban (University of Melbourne, Australia)

18. Electoral Law, Courts, and Constitutional Law: A Complex Relationship
Edmondo Mostacci (University of Genova, Italy), Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy) and Cristina Fasone (LUISS University, Italy)