Notwithstanding the growing attention paid by the legal literature to legal pluralism and to supranational institutions, the contribution of the international monitoring bodies to the internationalisation of constitutional law is not very rich.1

Studies devoted to the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the so-called Venice Commission)^{[329] [330]} are numerous, but they do not always devote attention to the legal effects of the Opinions and Reports of the Commission.

Among the aspects that these studies frequently disregard is the appreciation of the contribution of the documents mentioned above to the evolu­tion of international law. However, recent articles have criticised the activity of the Venice Commission for adopting political choices and giving up the original mandate of neutrality and scientific objectivity.^[331] This book is entirely devoted to describing the contribution of the Venice Commission to the elaboration of international constitutional law. The contribution has been analysed as the result not of a political enterprise, but of an articulated process of legal reasoning. At this stage, summarising the conclusion of that narrative may be useful.

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