In the legal field, too, there is growing concern about the communication of law. Some sources prescribe clarity and transparency. However, there are some gray areas regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of the tools, especially if one of the goals is to reduce asymmetries as a means of combating labor…
Consumers’ equal access to credit and payment services is hindered by the cryptic and sometimes misleading language of the contractual and pre-contractual forms unilaterally prepared by intermediaries, even if based on the provisions of banking contract regulations and the provisions of the supervisory authorities. The problem is accentuated for those…
The paper focuses on the communication in Italian by Swiss authorities with citizens who experience difficulties reading standard texts for cognitive, psychiatric or social reasons, in the many facets that these difficulties can present themselves. Among these people, immigrants can be mentioned as well, to whom the conference pays particular attention.The question…
Filling in public administration forms can be a complex task for many citizens, especially for foreigners, who are the most vulnerable recipients of public communication. This contribution proposes a process of simplifying forms based on the Legal Information Design approach and aimed at foreign citizens, with the aim of improving their usability…
The essay explores the possibility of redefining migration through the category of dwelling, moving beyond the dichotomy between mobility and sedentariness. Starting from the need to recompose the legal and political paradigm of migration, it re-evaluates the ius migrandi and the Vattelian concept of the habitant perpétuel, examining the relationship between errancy and the new world order….
The modern vestment of the contractual will is not a conventional, but an institutional language. It is spoken – or rather, practiced – within ‘virtual rooms’ where the problem is not the lack of information, but an excessof it; and where semantic obscurity is not linked merely to the choice of words used to formulate this or…
The essay addresses the complex relationship between freedom of conscience and juridical oaths in a European legal space that is increasingly diversified in the religious and cultural fields. It focuses, in particular, on two distinct problems: the religiosity of the oath form and the structure of the oath, examining them both in relation…
The text examines the long-standing issue of the poor readability of Italian legal and administrative texts, which hinders comprehension, especially for immigrants and those without legal expertise. Despite various attempts since the 1980s, the situation remains critical and generates inequalities. The PRIN project Migrants, Institutions, Translations, Easy-to-read Law (2022) aims…
This essay offers an interdisciplinary analysis that investigates the connections between religious freedom, the regulation of places of worship, migration phenomena also in relation to the experience of work, and the protection of fundamental personal rights. All of these are analyzed focusing on the processes of the construction of legal…
This study explores the role of intention as a pivotal principle in the perception and application of concepts such as ‘justice’ and ‘sustainability’ within rural communities during the European energy transition. Through an ethnographic survey I personally conducted in 2023 among Christian Orthodox communities in rural Romania, I investigated the…
