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The Constitution of Malta at Sixty

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This book consists of a collection of essays by several contributors, experts in the field of public law, regarding the Maltese Constitution, sixty years after its promulgation in 1964. The essays cover several aspects of Maltese constitutional law, the history of constitutional development in Malta, the 1964 Independence Constitution, the vicissitudes and crises it has passed through in the last six decades, its flaws and shortcomings, and the part played by the Maltese Constitutional Court in the development of human rights law. It also contains proposals in such areas as parliamentary autonomy, the right to good governance, and others, which seek to make constitutional law and practice more autochthonous, without abandoning the close ties with English public law.

  • Author:Editors: Tonio Borg & John Stanton
  • Format:paperback
  • Pages:524
  • Year:2024
  • ISBN:78-9918-23-147-8
  • Dimensions:245 × 168 cm | 920g
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PUBLICATION DATE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2024

 

Foreword

Her Excellency, Myriam Spiteri Debono, President of Malta

 

Introduction: a glance at the past, a vision for the future
Tonio Borg and John Stanton

 

PART I: HISTORY, INDEPENDENCE, AND STATEHOOD

 

Maltese independence and the 1964 Constitution
John Stanton  

 

Aspects from the Constitutions of Malta, 1921 – 1964
Raymond Mangion

 

The inheritance of the concept of state
Mark A. Sammut Sassi

 

Constituting nationhood: spiritualism, language,
and Maltese constitutionalism
Jennifer Orlando-Salling

 

PART II: THE 1964 CONSTITUTION

 

Chapter II of the Constitution: time to question it
Ivan Mifsud

 

Everybody’s supporters’ club: Maltese
constitutional neutrality
Hillary Briffa

 

Black holes and the Constitution of Malta
Tonio Borg

 

Article 41 of the Constitution: a guarantee against political arrogation and arrogance
Therese Comodini Cachia

 

PART III: MALTA IN EUROPE

 

The primacy of EU law in the Maltese legal system
Ivan Sammut

 

Article 6 of Malta’s Constitution and the EU: unnecessary tensions
Robert Musumeci and Ivan Mifsud

 

EU law, the Constitution of Malta, and the Felsberger case
Tonio Borg

 

The interplay between a national Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights
Lorraine Schembri Orland

 

PART IV: INSTITUTIONS AND DEMOCRACY

 

Beyond autonomy – furthering the effective
role of Parliament
Michael Frendo

 

Electoral law: bipartisan balance vs public impartiality – a 60 year constitutional dilemma
Austin Bencini

 

Broadcasting and the Constitution
Francis Zammit Dimech

 

Developing the right to good administration
in national law
Kevin Aquilina

 

 

Additional information

Weight 920 g
Dimensions 245 × 168 cm

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