Pedagogical Practices for Virtual Worlds

As a result from activities carried out within Module 2 of the MUVEnation programme about exploring active learning approaches, we have created a collection of practices for teaching and learning in Virtual Worlds, organised in 21 chapters, classified in the following categories of instructional methods: Presentation, Demonstration, Discussion, Drill-and-practice, Tutorial, Cooperative Learning, Gaming, Simulation and Discovery. The educational professionals who participated in the course worked in teams, but in some cases individually to map and describe the existing range of teaching practices in Second Life, and to draw a reflection about the elements for their success. Practices describ…

EC Practice in the WTO: How Wide is the "Scope for Manouvre"?

The EC’s implementation record in the WTO seems to reflect an attitude that, in accordance with the view traditionally maintained by the European Court of Justice from International Fruit to Portugal, finds its cornerstone in the principle of negotiations with a view to achieving mutually satisfactory solutions, even beyond the limits set by the DSU. Following these premises, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact that has been exercised on the EC’s contentious practice by interpretations of the WTO system given by the EC courts, in fine tuning with the stand taken by the EC’s political bodies. After having considered the legal and political reasons behind the case-law of the Co…

Of Direct Effect, Primacy and Constitutional Identities. Rome and Luxembourg enmeshed in the Taricco Case

International audience

La secessione nel diritto internazionale

Lo Stato nel diritto internazionale tra effettività e legalità/legittimità

Le droit à l’autodétermination du peuple palestinien

The right of the Palestinian people to liberate themselves from foreign occupation in the name of the principle of self-determination has played, and is playing today, a central role in the resolution of the Arab-Israeli problem, representing a real catalyst principle in a process which, unfortunately, remains unfinished. The question today revolves around the fulfilment of an obligation to negotiate conventionally accepted by the parties, considered without alternative by the international community, but which in practice translates into a right of veto over the exercise of self-determination, contradicting the inalienable nature of this principle. Self-determination thus becomes negotiabl…

L'emersione dei diritti fondamentali "assoluti" nella giurisprudenza comunitaria

Il lavoro parte dall'analisi di due sentenze rese dalla Corte di giustizia delle Comunità europee (Schmidberger ed Omega) in materia di tutela dei diritti fondamentali, per tracciare un parallelo con la giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo relativa alla protezione di diritti fondamentali "assoluti". Mette in evidenza come in realtà i giudici sovranazionali ed internazionali, anche quando proclamano in principio l'esistenza di diritti assoluti, tendano poi in practica a compiere operazioni di bilanciamento "mascherato"

The ICJ's Kosovo Advisory Opinion as an Exercise in Pre-Understanding

Secessione e diritto internazionale

La questione nord-irlandese tra autodeterminazione ed integrità territoriale

Sulla liceità dell'intervento su richiesta alla luce del conflitto in Mali

La brevettabilità delle specie animali e vegetali nel regime Trips (e Trips-plus)

A “Principle-Based” Approach to Intervention by Invitation in Civil Wars

This contribution challenges the idea of the existence of a one-size-fits-all rule that always prohibits or permits outside forcible intervention upon the request of a government engaged in a civil war. Civil wars are complex situations. It seems quite unrealistic to make abstractions of the “topography” of the conflict between the legal principles concretely at stake in each case. Indeed, if self-determination is the main rationale behind the thesis of strict-abstentionism, an important question to ask is whether self-determination always represents an obstacle to external intervention in civil wars to support the established government. Furthermore, the principle of negative equality is s…

Di pirati e Stati "falliti". Il Consiglio di sicurezza autorizza il ricorso alla forza nelle acque territoriali della Somalia

Educational Tools for Second Life: a handbook for educators in virtual worlds.

As a result of two collective activities organised during the MUVEnation programme, we have produced a collection of educational tools for Second Life. This collection has been produced in two stages. First, back in September 2008, 33 partcipants in the introductory module worked together in groups for the identification of more than 100 tools used for teaching and learning in Second Life. Later, in March 2009, 55 education professionals (lecturers, researchers, learning technologists and teachers) have collected, tested and fully described more than 150 tools. The result of this collective work has been transformed into a book, published as an Open Educational Resource under CC licence by …