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The Digital Omnibus Dilemma. Some Ethical and Legal Considerations on the Postponement of Certain Provisions of the European Artificial Intelligence Act.

On 19 November 2025, the European Commission presented the Digital Omnibus package, a sweeping legislative initiative that includes targeted amendments to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation EU 2024/1689). The central proposal is the postponement of the compliance obligations applicable to high-risk AI systems — originally due to enter into…

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Libertà religiosa e ‘fine della cristianità’. Una genealogia parigina del Concilio Vaticano II (1927-1965).

The diagnosis concerning the end of a “régime de Chrétienté” seems today to enjoy broad consensus within the Magisterium, from the French episcopate to the highest levels of the universal Church. The present contribution traces, through a number of key expressions, the historical and theological genealogy of this consensus. Starting…

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Traduzione interlegale vs. traduzione giuridico-interculturale. La recezione in Italia delle successioni islamiche tra regole e situazioni normative.

This article examines how Islamic rules of succession may be accommodated within the Italian legal system through the lens of intercultural legal translation. It proceeds from the premise that legal rules are grounded in specific understandings of family structure, property, and solidarity obligations, which do not necessarily coincide across legal…

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La traduzione interculturale dell’invisibile/Al-Ghayb. Un ‘farmaco semiotico’ per le sincopi giuridico-comunicative tra individui di differente cultura.

This article illustrates the methodology of intercultural translation and its applications, focusing the analysis on the category of ‘invisibility.’ This category is examined both from the perspective of its epistemological scope and in terms of its anthropological and cultural significance, particularly within the Islamic tradition, where it is labeled as Al-Gahyb. The…

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The Ecological Imperative: From the Relationship of Domination to Coexistence.

The ecological problem has a global dimension. In a radically interconnected world, the ecological issue is closely related to state sovereignty and inequality. Humanity is no longer menaced by an untamed nature, and nowadays danger comes from the same power achieved to dominate nature. This paper reflects on the relationship…

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Il software “palantir” e le nuove frontiere della computazione algoritmica. Un approccio rivolto prettamente alla gestione dei big data.

Palantir is a software program capable of effectively interfacing with big data spread throughout the digital fabric of computer networks and, above all, reconstructing the logical meaning of the relationship between metadata and the connections between various pieces of information stored in memories distributed across different servers. It is capable…

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Oltre la neutralità: istituzioni accademiche e divario di genere

This article examines the persistent gender gap within Italian academic institutions as a structural phenomenon, challenging the rhetoric of neutrality that characterizes university norms, procedures, and organizational practices. Drawing on jurisprudential and legal-philosophical scholarship addressing gender issues, the contribution critically interrogates the principle of equality in its predominantly formal understanding,…

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Riti e forme della danza macabra come specchio dei rapporti interordinamentali

This essay aims at verifying the existence of a line of continuity between the artistic genre of the danse macabre and the legal implications of death in the historical evolution of the relationship between law and religion. Although the institution originated in medieval Europe and bears some similarities to rituals in different…

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Ambivalenze della vita in rete. Dall’isolamento sociale all’hate speech

In today’s hyperconnected society, internet has profoundly transformed social interaction, identity formation, and public discourse. This paper examines the dual nature of digital networks: as spaces of emancipation and empowerment, but also as enablers of pathological and criminal phenomena. Particular attention is paid to social withdrawal (hikikomori) and online hate…

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Epistemologie della compliance nel semantic turn. Anomia e conformità nell’informatica giuridica e nella filosofia del diritto

This article addresses compliance within the European regulatory framework, arguing for the need to move beyond traditional ontological models toward epistemological approaches to compliance-based analysis: what has been termed as a sematic turn. Static representations of legal norms are increasingly inadequate to capture the complexity of technologically mediated regulatory environments…

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