Massnahmevorschriften and emergency powers in contemporary public law

State of emergency, emergency and use of the law in order to regulate individually identified issues, are frequent and physiological in our contemporary legal systems. This article analyses mutual relations between the use of emergency powers in public law and the feature of tailor-made laws in the form of the “Massnahmevorschriften”. As the main problem of these norms, the article identifies the avoidance of the judicial control. Further, the intrinsic derogatory and emergency nature of tailor-made laws represent a very deep institutional problem. Being these the fundamental issues, it is not hard to see as the tailor-made law tends to be in contrast not only with the Italian Constitution, but also European law.