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The European Courts and the Security Council: Between Dédoublement Fonctionnel and Balancing of Values: a Rejoinder to Grainne de Burca, André Nollka…

2009

* Professor of International Law, University of Naples ‘ Federico II ’ . Email: padesena@tin.it ; Associate Professor of International Law, University of Palermo. Email: chiara.vitucci@unipa.it 1 Nollkaemper, ‘ The European Courts and the Security Council: Between Dedoublement Fonctionnel and Balancing of Values: A Reply to De Sena and Vitucci ’ , 20 EJIL (2009) 862. Andre Nollkaemper, Grainne de Burca and Iris Canor have made a number of critical observations which are – in part at least – interesting and useful. A full examination of them would probably demand more time and more space than we have been given here. Nevertheless, we will try to reply to some of their remarks and to clear up…

DNA Fingerprinting as a Tool of Paternity Testing in Germany

1991

Soon after the discovery of the ABO blood groups by Landsteiner their forensic application was suggested by Max Richter at the 74. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte at Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in 1902 [1], Landsteiner’s Nobel lecture “Uber individuelle Unterschiede des menschlichen Blutes” in 1930 [2] provided a landmark on the path towards the discovery of so-called hypervariable minisatellite regions of human DNA by Alec Jeffreys in 1985 [3]. Since the individual patterns of any human being seemed to be unique it is well understood that this achievement was immediately welcomed with great enthusiasm by the scientific community and the public opinion. Soon thereafter, however, s…

Così in mare come in terra: cosa resta del diritto d’asilo e dell’orizzonte dei diritti umani

2021

Dopo avere illustrato brevemente i principi che sostanziano il diritto d'asilo, e la loro centralità all'interno del sistema dei diritti umani, il saggio analizza le politiche migratorie contemporanee per come agiscono ai confini dell'Unione europea, in special modo nel Mare Mediterraneo, e, in Italia, dopo l'ingresso sul territorio dei e delle richiedenti asilo. Queste politiche si dimostrano incompatibili con il rispetto dei principi dell'asilo, ed anzi strutturalmente improntate alla loro violazione, mettendo a rischio la tutela e l'esercizio delle libertà e dei diritti non solo per le persone migranti.

L'età dei diritti: un bilancio

2013

Taking Human Dignity More Humanely

2016

The chapter argues that Kantian autonomy has sometimes been misunderstood, as if Kant would have viewed any choice as lawful, whatever its content might be. It should be noted that Kant followed earlier thinkers who had already found human rights (or natural rights) in the ‘dignity of human nature’. Thus Kant was not the first thinker to connect human rights with dignity, and the latter with human nature. The link between human rights, human nature and the expression ‘dignity’ appeared in the eighteenth century, but earlier than Kant.

The principle of non-refoulement vs national security in the post 9/11 era

2022

The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, had largely raised the problem of terrorism in international society. Governments launched campaigns against terrorism, one of them being the War on Terror, which as a result, raised controversial issues. One of the challenges is the fundamental human rights protection, namely the protection granted under the principle of non-refoulement. In the post-9/11 era, states started to be more concerned about their national security, and thus of individuals who enter their territories or already reside there. The main research question of this thesis is to analyze the impact of 9/11 on striking balance between the principle of non-refoulement and national…

Notes on privacy from the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

2013

En el presente artículo los profesores Zelada y Bertoni realizan un minucioso e interesante estudio del artículo 11 de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos a través de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. In this paper, professors Zelada and Bertoni perform a thorough and interesting study of Paper 11 of the American Convention on Human Rights analyzing the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Democrazia deliberativa e Convenzione europea dei diritti umani

2010

Deliberative democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights Theories of deliberative democracy have rapidly become very popular amongst political scientists. The central argument of these theories is that democratic legitimacy of lawmaking does not lie (or does not only lie) in the elected character of Parliaments but in public delib- eration processes. Decisions have to be justified by reasons and reasons have to be publicly debated. Legitimacy also depends on the opportunity for citizens to participate effectively in public debates. In this paper I argue that the European Court of Human Rights can be a key player in promoting a democracy based on public deliberation and that in the…

The Ambivalently Good Human Rights

2016

Resisting Immigration Detention

2016

The aim of this article is to provide a normative analysis of the ways in which immigrants resist immigration detention. After having outlined (in Section 2) some general features that make immigration detention a rather abnormal condition for human beings to be kept in, I distinguish three main forms of resistance to it: institutionalized, non-institutionalized, and anti-institutional. I first spell out, in Section 3, some individual characteristics of these forms of resistance. Then (in Sections 4 and 5), using Italy as my test case, I suggest, for each of these forms, an interpretation of their normative meaning (that is, their meaning according to both the relevant legal rules and their…