Francesco Biagi is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Constitutionalism, a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna School of Law, and a Researcher at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development. From October 2015 to January 2017, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law (Heidelberg), where he now works as a legal consultant. He is the co-editor of Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa: Actors and Factors (with Justin O. Frosini, 2015).

1. Democratic transitions and constitutional courts; 2. The first generation: the case of the Italian Constitutional Court; 3. The second generation: the case of the Spanish Constitutional Court; 4. The third generation: the case of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic; 5. Comparing three generations; Bibliography; Index.