On Friday 6th December 2024, the Official Reception Hall of the FVG Palace in Trieste will host ‘The Seasons of Italian Regionalism’, a seminar of national relevance promoted by Gruppo di Pisa, one of the two associations of Italian constitutionalists, in collaboration with the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies (IUSLIT) of the University of Trieste, which acts as scientific and logistic co-organiser.

The event represents an important opportunity to reflect on the evolution of Italian regional autonomies, a crucial topic for understanding the organisation of public powers in Italian Constitution.

Regional law represents a point of convergence between public law, constitutional law, particularly with regard to the system of regulatory sources and the structure of the form of government, and administrative law, since regional administrations are now a crucial component of the national public administration. With the reform of Title V in 2001, the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court has become fundamental in clarifying and redefining regional competences, thus helping to shape a discipline that is constantly evolving and animated by a lively public debate on autonomy and federalism.

This seminar aims at analysing the different seasons of Italian regionalism, offering a scientific and multidisciplinary contribution that embraces legal, historical and political perspectives. The speeches, entrusted to high-profile speakers, will allow for an in-depth examination of issues such as the implementation of special autonomies, the evolution of constitutional laws and the distribution of administrative functions.

The event is mainly addressed to scholars, professionals and insiders in the legal and constitutional field, but the topics covered and the prestige of the speakers may also arouse interest in a wider audience.

The seminar scheduled in Trieste is the first conference of scholars of constitutional law at the national level after more than twenty years, marking a significant return of the debate on these issues at the academic and institutional level precisely in the city that has historically represented a point of reference for the debate on territorial autonomies: among the great masters of regional law, are in fact, Prof. Livio Paladin and Prof. Sergio Bartole, who taught at the University of Trieste, in what was once the Faculty of Law.