The Italian National Stance and a Comparative Viewpoint

In recent years, a strong stance by the constitutional court judges of several Western countries produced many different juridical solutions on the issue of same-sex marriage; these solutions have evidently been shaped by the different contexts they have arisen in and by the specific constitutional laws on marriage being in force in any given . The issue describes and analyzes the provisions and normative solutions enacted in the main countries using common law and civil law systems respectively such as the United States and Canada. Europe: France, Germany , Portual, UK and Italy