Crisi e rilancio della discussione orale nei giudizi della Corte costituzionale

The contribution focuses on the modalities of conducting the public hearing in the judgments of the Constitutional Court, which was the subject of the amendment of the Supplementary Rules introduced by by the Resolution of 24 May 2022, with the aim of introducing a tighter and more profitable oral discussion between judges and attorneys. The contribution examines, in particular, the genesis of the reform and the historical context that led the Court to review its procedural rules on public hearings, with particular reference to the experience of ‘emergency’ constitutional justice. Moreover, after examining the content of the reform and its most significant aspects, the contribution offers a first analysis of the performance of the “new” oral discussion at the test of the first two and a half years of practical application, through the empirical examination of the public hearings held from June 2022 to December 2024.