The most important being constitutional law n. 1/1953, which, among other things, extends the power of reviewing and approving referendum's requests to the Court.

Since 12 October 2007, when the reform of the Italian intelligence agencies approved in August 2007 came into force, the pretext of state secret cannot be used to deny access to documents by the Court.

Candidates need to be either lawyers with twenty years or more experience, full professors of law, or (even former) judges of the Supreme Administrative, Civil and Criminal tribunals.

The President is elected from among its members in a secret ballot, by an absolute majority (8 votes in the case of a full court).

The President of the Court appoints one or more vice-presidents to stand in for him in the event of his absence for any reason.