Penn State International Law Review Volume 29 Article 2 Number 4 Penn State International Law Review 12-1-2011 A Comparative Perspective on Direct Access to Constitutional and Supreme Courts in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America: Assessing Advantages for the Italian Constitutional Court Gianluca Gentili Follow this and additional works at: http://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr Part of the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Gentili, Gianluca (2011) "A Comparative Perspective on Direct Access to Constitutional and Supreme Courts in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America: Assessing Advantages for the Italian Constitutional Court," Penn State International Law Review: Vol. 29: No. 4, Article 2. Available at: http://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr/vol29/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Penn State Law eLibrary. It has been accepted for inclusion in Penn State International Law Review by an authorized administrator of Penn State Law eLibrary. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. I Articles A Comparative Perspective on Direct Access to Constitutional and Supreme Courts in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America: Assessing Advantages for the Italian Constitutional Court Gianluca Gentili* * Ph.D., Comparative Public Law, University of Siena, Italy. This article has benefited from comparative research and study on systems of judicial review conducted during a traineeship at the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe, an opportunity for which I am grateful. I wish to thank Professor Tania Groppi of the University of Siena and Professors Louis F. Del Duca and Robert E.