The European Court of Justice (ECJ),formally just the Court of Justice,is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union,it is tasked with interpreting EU law and ensuring its uniform application across all EU member states under Article 263 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy,first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023,Amato became the country's earliest-serving Prime Minister.
The Constitution of the Italian Republic was ratified on 22 December 1947 by the Constituent Assembly,with 453 votes in favour and 62 against,before coming into force on 1 January 1948,one century after the previous Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy had been enacted. The text,which has since been amended sixteen times,was promulgated in an extraordinary edition of Gazzetta Ufficiale on 27 December 1947.
The University of Palermo is a university located in Palermo,Italy,and founded in 1806. It is organized in 12 Faculties.
The president of Italy,officially titled President of the Italian Republic,is the head of state of Italy. In that role,the president represents national unity,and guarantees that Italian politics comply with the Constitution. The president is the commander-in-chief of the Italian Armed Forces and chairs the High Council of the Judiciary. A president's term of office lasts for seven years. The incumbent president is former constitutional judge Sergio Mattarella,who was elected on 31 January 2015,and re-elected on 29 January 2022.
Leoluca Orlando,is an Italian politician. He was Mayor of Palermo for over twenty years and was president of the Italian Federation of American Football (FIDAF). He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia during his mayoralty in the 1980s,which was publicly referenced in the media as the Palermo Spring.
Piersanti Mattarella was an Italian politician who was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily. A member of Christian Democracy,he was the older brother of Sergio Mattarella,who has been President of Italy since 2015.
Bernardo Mattarella was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party. He was a cabinet minister of Italy several times,becoming one of the most important politicians of his generation.
Ignazio Salvo and his cousin Nino Salvo were two wealthy businessmen from the town of Salemi in the province of Trapani. They had strong political connections with the Christian Democrat party,in particular with the former mayor of Palermo,Salvo Lima,and Giulio Andreotti. At the Maxi Trial against the Mafia in the mid-1980s,they were convicted of association with Mafia members.
The Italian parliamentary Antimafia Commission is a bicameral commission of the Italian Parliament,composed of members from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The first commission,formed in 1963,was established as a body of inquiry tasked with investigating the "phenomenon of the [Sicilian] Mafia". Subsequent commissions expanded their scope to investigate all "organized crime of the Mafia type",which included other major criminal organizations in Italy such as the Camorra,the 'Ndrangheta and the Sacra Corona Unita.
Miodrag Simović is a Bosnian judge and academic,member of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He declared ethnic affiliation as a Bosnian Serb.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who has been President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023,Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
Francesca Laura Morvillo was an Italian magistrate,wife of Giovanni Falcone and victim of the Sicilian Mafia. On May 23,1992,she and her husband were killed in the Capaci bombing.
Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi "Ray" Zondo is a South African judge who is currently serving as Chief Justice of South Africa since 2022. President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Zondo as South Africa's new chief justice with effect from 1 April 2022. He served as acting Chief Justice from 11 October 2021,when Mogoeng Mogoeng retired,until 31 March 2022.
Pietro Grasso,also known as Piero Grasso,is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013 to 2018.
Marta Cartabia is an Italian jurist and academic who served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
The High Council of the Judiciary is an Italian institution of constitutional importance,entrusted to preside over the organisation of the Italian Judiciary. The High Council sits in the Palazzo dei Marescialli,Piazza Indipendenza 6,Rome.
Francesco Viganò is an Italian judge and criminal law professor at the Bocconi University in Milan. He was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by president Sergio Mattarella,and sworn in on 8 March 2018.
Gaetano Azzariti was an Italian jurist and politician,who headed the Commission on Race under the Fascist regime,and served as Minister of Justice of the Badoglio I Cabinet after the fall of the regime. After the war,from 1957 to 1961,he was president of the Constitutional Court of Italy.
