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Informal laws and state law in the horn of Africa
2019
This essay examines the relationship existing between informal law and state laws in the four countries of the Horn of Africa from an historical and comparative perspective. Such relation is considered from the time when the four countries became independent, however reference is also made from time to time to the colonial background when necessary to justify a particular situation. The analysis casts also an eye to the relation existing between religious laws and state laws, as religious laws represent an essential component in the interaction between state laws and the other normative orders present in these four countries. The essay concludes with some recommendations for the improvement…
The Exclusion of Women from Inheritance Rights: An Unresolved Issue?
2021
In Italy, the women's exclusion from the inheritance is the principle that structures the property system of the families in medieval and early modern age and the social and juridical organization of these centuries, until the XIX century. Despite its importance, the exclusion of the women has never been an autonomous historiographical issue, but it has been ignored to advantage of analysis centered on the dowry system: emphasis has been placed mainly on the property rights of the women instead of observing the marginalization of the female part of lineages respect to the family wealths. The essay addresses two issues: the way in which statutory and state laws rule women’s exclusion from in…
Interaction among Customary Law, Islamic Law and Colonial Law during the Italian Administration of Somalia
2020
The chapter discusses the presence of customary law, islamic law and colonial law during the period of Italian administration of Somalia (both colonial and during the trusteeship administration under UN mandate) and the interaction among these normative orders.
Il diritto non scritto nel sistema della Convenzione europea dei diritti umani
2016
Il lavoro si occupa dei rapporti tra diritto internazionale generale e sistema della Cedu, affrontando in particolare il problema di capire se la Corte edu abbia fatto ricorso al modello tradizionalmente usato nella giurisprudenza internazionale per stabilire condizioni e modalità di funzionamento delle norme generali nel sistema o se abbia elaborato una concezione un modello autonomo. This paper discusses the relationship between customary international law and the ECHR. The focus is the question whether this problem has been handled by the European Court of Human Rights through the model of relationship between customary law and treaty law which is commonly used by international judges an…
Sulla proprietà della natura. Karl Marx e la Legge sui furti di legna
2021
Il contributo si propone di dare una lettura dello scritto giovanile di Marx sulla "Legge relativa ai furti di legna" pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Renana nel 1842 anche attraverso l'incontro con gli scritti della maturità, soprattutto il capitolo XXIV del Capitale e le bozze di lettera al Vera Zasulič evidenziando gli elementi di una prospettiva della temporalità storica stratificata e plurale.
Il diritto consuetudinario albanese tra ricerca scientifica, finzione letteraria e rappresentazione mediatica
2020
The Code of Albanian Customary Law has drawn the attention of foreign and Albanian scholars for the past one hundred years. Inspired by different interests, scholars have approached this subject in different ways using various studying methods. Such studies range from the ethno-cultural and anthropological approaches of Positivist descent to the politically correct Gender Studies of the present day. At the same time, literature, cinema, and theatre have highlighted specific features of the Albanian Customary Law revealing a taste for the exotic. The most salient are undoubtedly the vendetta and the sworn virgins, upon which novel plots and films have been based. The author analyses in this …