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Climate Change and Global Justice: New Problem, Old Paradigm?
2014
In this paper, we focus on the conceptualization of climate change as an issue of global justice. While we do not deny that climate change raises fundamental and dramatic issues of justice among peoples as well as generations, our claim is that the language of global justice can obscure the fact that problems provoked by climate change lack some characteristic features of problems of global justice, while possessing others that are not characteristic of such problems. We begin by describing briefly how we got to where we are, climatically speaking; we go on to show why it is plausible to think of climate change as provoking problems of global justice; point out four respects in which this d…
Convenzione europea dei diritti umani e problemi di costituzionalità della legge elettorale italiana
2013
By an order of 21 March 2013, the Court of Cassation referred to the Constitutional Court the question of constitutionality of the current Italian electoral law on the grounds that it runs counter to the constitutional principles of free and equal suffrage. The Constitutional Court has been called by the referring judge to focus on three main aspects of law: the closed list system; the majority bonus in the Chamber of Deputies, by which the coalition that wins the highest number of votes receives at least 55% of the seats; and the majority bonus in the Senate, which is assigned on a regional level. While the Court of Cassation affirmed that the constitutional principles on the right to vote…
Choix du système électoral et Convention européenne des droits de l'homme : quelques observations à la lumière d'une affaire concernant une loi élect…
2013
Within the space of less than two years the European Court of Human Rights and the Italian Constitutional Court have returned almost opposing judgments on the question of the observance of political rights by Italy’s 2005 electoral law. The ECHR found the applications made to it by groups of electors inadmissible given the manifestly ill-founded character of the grievances they were based on. The Constitutional Court, on the contrary, concluded that the law was unconstitutional. At first sight, the differing approaches by the two courts and the differing conclusions they reached may be viewed as an expression of the complementary nature of the European system of protection of human rights w…
Human rights and the environment: A hard balance to strike
2017
This article is dedicated to the analysis of the uneasy relationship between human rights and the environment. Its first part focuses on new proposals such as the greening of human rights, the development of procedural environmental rights and the creation of specific environmental rights, aimed at the harmonization between human rights and environmental protection. The second part focuses on groups whose rights are particularly at risk vis à vis environmental protection activities: indigenous peoples and local communities. The article then analyses current trends of change in the relationship between indigenous peoples and local communities rights and the protection of the environment than…
La riforma degli articoli 9 e 41 della Costituzione e la valorizzazione dell'ambiente.
2022
Con la riforma degli art. 9 e 41 della Costituzione, approvata l’8 febbraio 2022, l’ambiente entra nella Costituzione tra i principi fondamentali ed in qualità di limite all’esercizio dell’attività economica. Il saggio propone una lettura della riforma in grado di avvalorare quell’orientamento che, sin dal secolo scorso, propugnava la ricostruzione dell’ambiente come diritto fondamentale della persona, in linea con la valorizzazione dello stesso quale bene distinto dal paesaggio, in una prospettiva esistenzialista di tutela della persona. La modifica introdotta, secondo l’autore, colma un vuoto costituzionale, divenuto insostenibile alla luce degli sviluppi della tutela ambientale, così com…
La Unión Europea, un nuevo modelo de respuesta al terrorismo
2006
I. Un nuevo marco jurídico internacional en construcción. II. La estrategia de seguridad de Estados Unidos contra el terrorismo. III. La respuesta de la Unión Europea al terrorismo
In tema di proprietà: il modello romano nella tradizione giuridica
2021
We are back to discuss ownership. In fact, beyond all possible predictions, the history of property law is combined with that of fundamental human rights. The individual perspective of absoluteness, present in the codicistic tradition, the predominantly economic content of the property right, governed by the Constitution, are today deeply intertwined with the perspective of the protection and enhancement of the subject who owns it, in accordance with the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Charter of Nice). . This new perspective of protection is associated with …
Sul settantesimo anniversario della Convenzione europea: fra successi e prospettive di alterazione del sistema
2020
In this paper it is submitted that an assessment of the functioning of the European system of protection of human rights lead to different results, depending on whether one considers the entire life of this system or the last twenty years (par. 1). Such an assessment is beyond any doubt positive in the first case, insofar as both the action of the States parties (progressive "jurisdictionalisation" of the protection system; extension to eastern Europe, ecc.) and the case law of the European Court (evolutive interpretation, ecc.) are concerned (par. 2). Different considerations are developed with regard to the last twenty years, despite the stipulation of Protocol 14, 15 and 16, and despite …
Hate Speech e messaggi discriminatori: riflessioni internazionalistiche sul caso Casapound c. Facebook
2021
In this intervention the idea is submitted that the interim measures in the case Casapound v. Facebook, by means of which Fb Ireland was ordered by the Rome Tribunal (on December 12, 2019) to reactivate the profile of the extreme right wing political association Casapound - previously closed as a consequence of an alleged violation of fb standards concerning hate speech - can be criticized under international and european law. Such criticisms stem both from the overall picture of the international and european legal standards concerning hate speech (par. 2) and from the relevant case law of the European Court of Human rights (paras. 3 and 4).