Search results for " legal order"
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The European Courts and the Security Council: Between "Dédoublement Fonctionnel" and Balancing of Values
2009
The recent case law of various international tribunals facing questions related to UN Security Council resolutions shows the clear tendency to grant primacy to the UN legal order. This trend, far from being well founded on formal arguments, appears to be a tribute to a legal order perceived as superior, and, at the same time, is revealing of the ‘value oriented’ approach followed by the courts. Such an approach can be categorized from a theoretical perspective in the light of Scelle's theory of relations between legal orders, whereby the courts implement in their respective legal orders values stemming from the UN legal order. Various critical remarks can be advanced in relation to this att…
The Duty to Punish Racial Hate v. Freedom of Expression: Looking for a Fair Balance in the Domestic Implementation of CERD Obligations
2021
La Corte costituzionale apre al divieto di retroattività del novum penitenziario in malam partem.
2020
With a courageous judgment, the Constitutional Court extends the application scope of art. 25, par. 2, Cost. in the criminal enforcement sector. Censoring the living law, the Court states the prohibition of the retroactivity of the measures more afflictive introduced by law no. 3 of 2019 to convicts who committed the fact before its entry into force. The Author, after dwelling on the new paradigm of "European legality", retraces the salient passages of the decision, from which it draws the innovative message of the Judge of the laws.
An Only Child without “Younger Brothers”: Contrada v. Italy (No. 3) and the Never-Ending Saga of the Relationship between Italian Courts and the ECtHR
2020
Corte di Cassazione (Sezioni Unite Penali), 3 March 2020, No. 8544 Criminal proceedings against Stefano Genco
L'ordine, dal centro ai margini: a proposito della ripubblicazione di due testi di Costantino Mortati
2022
In questo articolo, offro una ricostruzione della concezione dell’ordinamento giuridico, dello sta- to e della costituzione materiale di Costantino Mortati, mostrando la evoluzione da essa subita nel corso degli anni. Mi soffermo in particolare su due aspetti: sulla natura di “fatto normativo” della volontà delle forze politiche dominanti che, secondo Mortati, sostiene la costituzione ma- teriale dello stato; e sul modo in cui Mortati applica la sua concezione alla fase di formazione e di mutamento della costituzione materiale, e ai periodi di indebolimento dell’unità politica. In this article I propose a reconstruction of Costantino Mortati’s view of the legal order, the state and the mate…
La diretta applicabilità dei trattati nell’ordinamento italiano: quo vadis?
2022
The concept of ‘direct applicability’ and ‘self-executing’ nature of international norms is still object of intense debate in the international legal scholarship. In Italy, such a debate has attracted new attention in the light of a recent ruling of the Joint Sections of the Court of Cassation, according to which the norms enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights are not directly applicable in domestic proceedings. Such a statement seems to derive from some terminological and legal mis-understanding. By summarizing the conclusions of the several authors which have dealt with this issue in a Special Section of the review, the present article formulates some conclusions. First, it…
Nessuna speranza senza collaborazione per i condannati all’ergastolo ostativo? Un primo commento a Viola c. Italia (n. 2)
2019
The paper deals with a recent judgment delivered by the European Court of Human Rights dealing with the compatibility of the Italian "ergastolo ostativo" (life imprisonment without parole) with Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The re-emergence of the condition of insularity in the Italian and European legal system
2022
The essay deals with the question of the conditions of insularity in the European and Italian legal systems by analyzing the regulatory evolutions and the studies of the Regions on the subject up to the recognition referred to in the Constitutional law n. 2 of 2022 (art.119, 6 paragraph)
Litigating Treaties by Means of Article 46 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
2022
The contribution deals with Article 46 of the Vienna Convention and related national and internationa case-law.