In recent years, growing attention to the protection of diversity has made the issue of minorities increasingly relevant and compelling. There are, actually, some particularly vulnerable minorities, such as the Roma community, who have always suffered from a lack of interest on the part of a state legal system that,…
The relationship between language and law is essential to ensure clarity, knowability and effectiveness of legal norms. The use of simple and accessible language, as in the 1948 Italian Constitution, ensures democratic participation and legal certainty. Regulatory complexity, on the other hand, compromises citizens’ understanding, undermining the principle of legality. Initiatives such…
The paper provides a methodology for the guided drafting of administrative documents that meet criteria of clarity and simplicity in both content and language. The methodology is divided into three phases. The first consists of a quantitative analysis focused on the linguistic complexity of the texts and was carried out…
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 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…
