Teaching

In my experience as a Teaching Assistant, I collected a series of resources and research tools to support students in the preparation of their research papers or Master’s theses in Comparative Constitutional Law.

How to do research?

Hancké, Bob. Intelligent Research Design: A Guide for Beginning Researchers in the Social Sciences. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Readings on the comparative method

In English

  • 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.
  • Michael, 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.
  • 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].

In Italian

  • Bognetti, Giovanni. Diritto costituzionale comparato. Approccio metodologico. Modena: Mucchi Editore, 2015.
  • Bussani, Mauro. Introduzione al diritto comparato. Un breviario della globalità. Milano: Mondadori, 2022.
  • de Vergottini, Giuseppe. Diritto costituzionale comparato. Milano: Wolters Kluwer, 2022, 1-106.
  • de Vergottini, Giuseppe. “Comparazione e diritto costituzionale.” Nomos, no. 2 (2018): 1–22.
  • Sacco, Rodolfo, and Piercarlo Rossi. Introduzione al diritto comparato. Torino: UTET giuridica, 2019.
  • Scarciglia, Roberto. Metodi e comparazione giuridica. Milano: Wolters Kluwer, 2025.

Databases for doctrinal research

Databases for legislation and case law

Encyclopedias

Research tools