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Foreign direct investment and the rule of law in Africa in the context of legal integration
2018
This essay focuses on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the rule of law in the context of legal integration in Africa, outside of the AfCFTA agreement. Specifically, the essay investigates the concept of the rule of law, taking into account its ‘dynamic’ side, that is the power to shape and model the structure of a state using the example of OHADA. The OHADA framework shows that the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the rule of law is not unilateral but a ‘two-way mutual’ relationship where both actors contribute to the success of the system, adapting to each other in order to achieve their respective goals.
Foreign Direct Investments and the Rule of Law in Africa in the context of legal integration
2019
This essay focuses on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the rule of law in the context of legal integration in Africa, outside of the AfCFTA agreement. Specifically, the essay investigates the concept of the rule of law, taking into account its ‘dynamic’ side, that is the power to shape and model the structure of a state using the example of OHADA. The OHADA framework shows that the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the rule of law is not unilateral but a ‘two-way mutual’ relationship where both actors contribute to the success of the system, adapting to each other in order to achieve their respective goals.
Covid 19, Stato di diritto e Convenzione europea dei diritti dell'uomo: il caso ungherese
2021
In this brief intervention it is submitted that the emergency measures against COVID-19, adopted by the Hungarian Government, infringe the rule of law under the European Convention of Human Rights. First of all, these measures appear to be discriminatory, according to art. 1 of the Convention, insofar as they expressly aim at protecting only Hungarian citizens. Furthermore, they are not “necessary” under article 15, given that they extend to the « legal security and the stability of the national economy ». Thirdly, the measures at stake cannot be deemed proportionate (under art. 15), to the extent that : (a) they are not limited in time ; (b) they provide the government with the power to ex…
Se è vero che il diritto amministrativo globale non esiste, lo si dovrebbe inventare. L’Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite e il Rule of Law
2022
The UN Agenda 2030 represents an important contribution to an international political strategy. In this article it is explained its origin and meaning, and it is shown that it is necessary to pursue its goals in the respect of the principles of the rule of law. A global administrative law it is requested.
Hart’s Blind Spot. Il tassello mancante in Th,e Concept of Law
2012
At the beginning of The Concept of Law Hart suggests a mistaken assimilation between conduct that is ‘non-optional’ and conduct that is ‘obligatory’ (i.e,. conduct that is either coerced or subject to an obligation). This suggested assimilation vitiates the argument of the whole book, leading Hart to neglect the different ways in which the law typically tracks, corroborates or constitutes power relations. It is true that, famously, attention is paid, in The Concept of Law, to normative, legal powers. Brute social power, and law’s relation to it—the role of law as a cog in the workings of social powers—, however, are largely overlooked. This is. in a way, Hart’s blind spot. I list some of th…
Emergencia y garantías (en el pensamiento jurídico de Luigi Ferrajoli)
2011
Abstract: Along with Spain and United Kingdom, Italy has suffered a terrible period of political violence between 1970 and 1982 with hundreds of killings. In this paper I analyse the origins of Luigi FERRAJOLI’s theory of legal guarantee and his criticisms to Italian legislation against terrorism of that time. Therefore, I shed light on three different understanding of such a theory and I offer a review of that legislation that he labelled as «the subsystem of exception ».Moreover I will apply this conception of «special» criminal law to two famous trials against militants of a group of the extreme left. According to FERRAJOLI, these trials have been an instance of the paradigm of political…
Legal Exclusionism: Legal Personhood Between the Erasure and the Rule of Law
La personalità giuridica è uno status giuridico che conferisce agli esseri umani (e ad alcune entità non-umane) la capacità di partecipare – in modo attivo e passivo – alla generalità delle relazioni giuridiche e la capacità di eseguire atti giuridici. Si tratta di uno status giuridico fondamentale, costitutivo del concetto stesso di diritto. Inoltre, si tratta di uno status limite, ovvero di uno status che distingue i soggetti del diritto dagli oggetti del diritto. Oggi la personalità giuridica è intesa come uno status quasi-naturale, attribuito ad ogni essere umano in maniera incondizionata e inalienabile. Oggi, inoltre, la privazione totale della personalità giuridica, come nel caso dell…
Il costituzionalismo contemporaneo ai tempi del Covid-19
2020
L’indeterminatezza è una delle caratteristiche salienti del diritto negli stati costituzionali contemporanei. Tale caratteristica mette in crisi le concezioni “oggettualistiche” del diritto che riducono il diritto a un insieme di norme o a un insieme di fatti e corrobora quelle concezioni che considerano il diritto una pratica sociale interpretativa. La costituzionalizzazione degli ordinamenti giuridici accresce la flessibilità del diritto a detrimento della certezza e impone a tutti – legislatori, giudici e individui soggetti al diritto – di assumersi le proprie responsabilità e i rischi che ne conseguono. Il modo in cui il legislatore, a diversi livelli, fronteggia l’attuale pandemia da C…
La botte piena e la moglie ubriaca, ovvero: i limiti del positivismo giuridico di Bruno Celano
2019
This paper proposes a critical analysis of Bruno Celano’s normative legal positivism. The main objections focuses on four crucial points of Celano’s theory: 1) the distinction between descriptive and normative jurisprudence, which is not taken in due account; 2) the underestimation of the role of interpretation in the legal domain; 3) the acritical acceptance of the source thesis; 4) the attempt of reconciling a procedural ideal of the Rule of Law with the substantial values of the contemporary constitutional States.
Rule of Law.Il governo della legge ieri e oggi
2011
In questa rivisitazione della formula del rule of law s’intende mostrare che essa non deve essere ridotta all’individuazione di determinate caratteristiche formali dei precetti giuridici e neppure allargata sì da comprendere determinati contenuti normativi del diritto, ma che essa è rivolta ad indicare come deve essere praticato il diritto. L’uso del diritto è importante quanto l’individuazione dei criteri formali di validità, e forse ancor più di questi. Questa linea di pensiero è illustrata sia facendo riferimento alla tradizione filosofico-giuridica, da Aristotele a Tommaso d’Aquino, sia segnalando l’espansione della formula del rule of law anche nella filosofia politica contemporanea, e…