This essay examines the Italian Cassation Court Ordinance of 17 April 2020 – concerning the recognition of the right to distribute publlicity (‘propaganda’) as claimed by the UAAR (Unione degli atei e degli agnostici razionalisti/Union of Atheists and Rational Agnostics), in accordance with Article 19 of the Italian Constitution. Specifically,…
During the twentieth century, the state founded on constitutional law was the form of organization that best ensured the participation of citizens in the construction of the legal discourse. This model also ensured the respect of a wide range of constitutionally guaranteed principles and values. In this model, the theory…
The Istanbul Convention of 2011 established a clear link between the objective of gender equality and the elimination of violence against the ‘female’ gender and regulated directly the issue of forced marriages. Currently, in Italy, the reference legislation is represented by Art. 7 of the so-called ‘Codice Rosso’ approved in…
The pandemic has mercilessly highlighted deficits in Italian high schools, but it has been a long time since students, teachers, school staff and other stakeholders asked for decisive innovation. In this paper, this drive for change will be studied in terms of renovation in light of the fundamental axes of…
The restrictions on human movements put into place by states in response to the 2020 global outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have disrupted every category of society, not least religion and law. Freedom of religion has been pitted against right to health across several categories. Areas of conflict such as…
This paper addresses questions of legal personhood that have been coming to the fore in European courts in recent years through what has been termed the “Right to Be Forgotten.” These cases center around conflicts between the permanence of online information and the desire of users to instead make their…
The following essay offers some legal-philosophical reflections about the current pandemic resulting from the spread of coronavirus Covid-19. These are concentrated around a few core-themes: (1) the role and of mass media and the problem of credibility; (2) the issue of cooperation among states (mostly within the EU); (3) the…
In response to the Covid-19 epidemic, the government and local authorities have adopted measures which restrict religious freedom. The Italian authorities have imposed urgent and binding ordinances suspending all religious ceremonies, and have limited access to places of worship. These measures are justified by an emergency decree aimed at the…
The aim of these brief notes is to underline in the current contingency of a worldwide not clearly known pandemic the legal relevance of the relationship between the doctor and the patient. While the Corona-virus health emergency still seems to rise, many issues are challenging the hermeneutical efforts of jurists:…
This short text is an attempt at grappling with the ethical implications of coronavirus or COVID-19. The approach adopted is Spinozan, in the sense that in the centre of the ethical considerations we find the body and its connection to other bodies. The main argument of the text is that…
