Reviviscenza della normativa abrogata e riserva di legge in materia penale: quale compatibilità?

Taking the cue from the order number 24 of 2017 delivered by the Italian Constitutional Court, the paper analyses the troublesome compatibility between the revival of a provision repealed by a law which has been declared unconstitutional, determining effects partially in malam partem, and the guarantee enshrined in Art. 25, par. 2, of the Italian Constitution, also in relation to the limits of the Constitutional Court and the prerogatives of the Italian Parliament in criminal matters