Ligi Kostituzzjonali

Malta’s constitutional neutrality has long been treated as a settled domestic compromise. Yet, as the European Union recalibrates its external posture in response to shifting geopolitical pressures, that compromise is no longer insulated from supranational dynamics. The interaction between unanimity in the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the possible reconfiguration of political alignments within the […]

In approaching the claims advanced by ADPD and its candidates, one cannot but record a measure of admiration for the intellectual ambition of their challenge. Even for readers who may ultimately accept the outcome reached by the Constitutional Court, the applicants’ submissions remain striking for their clarity, inventiveness, and disciplined attempt to expose a structural […]

Legal arguments are not written only because something is imminent. They are often written to correct misthinking and to set the record straight. They may be advanced to alert, to provoke counter-argument, or precisely because they may be partially—or even intrinsically—mistaken. That is how serious scholarship evolves. Legal writing in the public sphere is therefore […]

There is something refreshingly radical in the idea that laws mean what they say. Not what was uttered in some speech during second reading, not what may be uncovered in explanatory notes or interpretive acrobatics—but what is actually written, in black and white, and assented to by the President. That is the law. And if […]