Right2Water: “Water and sanitation are a human right! Water is a public good, not a commodity!” is the first European citizens’ initiative that has ever been examinated by the European Commission in accordance with Regulation ...

War is traditionally regarded as the ultimate expression of the emergency. Typically, each legal order has constitutional rules dedicated to the warfare. Waging war allows you to disregard some constitutional rules. Nowadays ...

The book of Prof. F.P. Casavola, President of Italian National Committee for Bioethics, makes very well the point on bioethics today. Generated as a reaction to the dehumanization of medicine, the contemporary bioethics ...

The lecture focuses some key-concepts of the Italian Constitution such as human dignity, democracy, rights and duties, separation of powers, from the beginning to the financial crisis, in european and comparative perspective.

The essay takes in consideration several aspects of the general problem of the legal persecution regarding crimes against the public administration in the Italian legislation. The most relevant criminal behaviours and acts ...

This study is dedicated to the topic of the Conflicts of Laws between States in International Commerce. It’s divided in three main parts, each concerns one of the three distinct juridical orders that together form one major ...

After a brief survey of the current gambling legislation, the work revisits the history of Roman law which is gambling-related by analyzing the republican laws, the fragments of the jurists and the imperial legislation.

The jurist has to face often long-standing issues such as the beginning of human life, embryo’s nature, in vitro fertilisation, the legitimacy of research and experiments on stem cells. The Italian jurist finds himself at ...

This essay explores the existence of an inescapable relationship between sustainable development and soft law, with special regard to Resolution 66/288 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations as outcome of ...

Arnese’s book could be appreciated for its very interesting containts stimulating reader’s reflection. The author investigates the subject of the 'usurae' from a new perspective, considering the many ways trough which, ...