In my experience as Teaching Assistant, I collected a series of resources to support students in the preparation of their research papers or Master’s thesis in Comparative Constitutional Law.
Readings on the comparative method
- de Vergottini, Giuseppe. “Comparazione e Diritto Costituzionale.” Nomos, no. 2 (2018): 1–22.
- de Vergottini, Giuseppe. “Constitutional Law and the Comparative Method.” In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism, edited by Javier Cremades and Cristina Hermida, 1–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
- Hirschl, Ran. “Comparative Methodologies.” In The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law, edited by Roger Masterman and Robert Schütze, 11–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Jackson, Vicki. “Comparative Constitutional Law: Methodologies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, edited by Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó, 54–74. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Micheal, Ralf. “The Functional Method of Comparative Law.” In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, edited by Mathias Reinmann and Reinhard Zimmermann, 345-389. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Sacco, Rodolfo. “Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Instalments I & II).” The American Journal of Comparative Law 39 (1991), no. 1: 1–34 & no. 2: 343–401.
- Sacco, Rodolfo, and Piercarlo Rossi. Introduzione al Diritto Comparato. Torino: UTET giuridica, 2019.
- Siems, Mathias M. Comparative Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Siems, Mathias M., and Po Jen Yap, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 [part I: Methods of Comparative Law, pages 13-208].
Databases for doctrinal research
- Rivisteweb [only Italian journals]
- Heinonline
- Proquest
- JSTOR
- Project MUSE collection
- Google Scholar
- SSRN
Databases for legislation and case law
- Constitute project
- Legislationline
- Eur-lex
- CJEU
- ECtHR
- Normattiva [only Italian legislation]
- Corte Costituzionale [only Italian constitutional case-law]
Encyclopedias
- Max Plank Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law
- Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism
- Enciclopedia del Diritto [only in Italian]
- Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law
Research tools
- For literature reviews
- For writing:
- Hancké, Bob. Intelligent Research Design: A Guide for Beginning Researchers in the Social Sciences. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Writing tips
Reference: ICON-S Writing School