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Islamic Rites and ceremonies in the Pandemic Emergency between Parallel Legal Orders
No full textThe essay investigates how some religious Islamic rules have been accommodated in front ofthe Covid emergency in some European countries and religious communities, highlighting the different and interconnected dimensions involved in this process of accommodation. The author uses the word country, having regard to the state-territorial legal order; and the word religious community, referring to the Islamic rule of law-religion model, based on a personal law conception. In particular, after some conceptual definition on some peculiar issues involved (para. 1), the analysis goes through some rules on funeral rites and ceremonies (para. 2) and on the sacred pilgrimages (para. 3).
The conclusive remarks (para. 4) underline how the Covid 19’s emergency has given a chance for forms of virtuous reasonable accommodation, looking forward areas of middle ground between parallel legal systems
The trust in family crisis. A common law model to regulate child mainteniance in a civil law system.
No full textTHE TRUMAN SHOW OF SAME-SEX FAMILY. RIGHT TO FILIATION V. BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD
Full text linkThis study offers a brief excursus on the adoption in Italy, focusing on the
legislative choice (as ruled by the “Civil Partnership Act”)1 not to grant the
stepchild adoption (SCA) to the partners of the registered partnerships, called
unioni civili.
When the Act was discussed by the Parliament, there was an hard debate on
filiation in same-sex couple: the right to be a couple for same-sex partners has
been less problematic than providing for a specific right to parenthood. On
such issue was not reached a majority’s consent, so, in order to save the goal of
unioni civili, the provisions on filiation and adoption for same sex couples had
been set aside.
In the absence of scientific studies and evidences on the consequences for a
child to live with same-sex parents and in front of a fragmented civil society’s
feeling on such issue, the legislative has decided to go ahead. Behind such
option there is probably the fear that the child can be hurt or seriously affected
in her/his personal/phycological and sexual identity, if adopted or grown up
in a by an homo-parental family.
In this regard, the analysis also investigates the judiciary answer to the
stepchild adoption’s requests in same-sex parent families, in specific cases such
as the ones of individuals, who had got married in another State or had simply
opted for artificial insemination (mainly female couples) or surrogacy (mainly
male ones).
The study considers if:
- in major western legal systems where the step-child adoption is
generally recognized by the legislation, homo-sexual civil unions or
marriage’s partners are entitled to a fundamental right to become parents, that implies a right to filiation in the interest of the adopting
parent;
- where the stepchild adoption has been recognised only by courts, it has
been based on the continuity of the affective relationship and the best
interest of the adopted child, even in cases of surrogacy and artificial
insemination and sometimes even when no one of the commissioning
partner is the biological parent.
The consequences of these two different approaches in terms of legal
reasoning, recognition of new rights, new family bonds and respective
obligations between family members will also be investigated
Dialogo e modelli di mediazione
No full textL’idea di questo volume nasce nel 2014 dalla collaborazione tra i vari autori
che Vi hanno contribuito, i quali hanno partecipato direttamente o indirettamente
alle attività di ricerca, didattica e diffusione di un progetto comunitario
in tema di mediazione, finanziato dalla Commissione Europea sulla linea Civil
Justice 2012.
Il progetto è stato coordinato dal Dipartimento di Studi Europei e della Integrazione
Internazionale (DEMS) dell’Università di Palermo, in collaborazione
con il Centro di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali per il Mediterraneo (CRESM),
il Centro Mediterraneo di Studi Interculturali (CEMSI), l’Università del Pireo
(Grecia), l’Università di Cipro, l’Università di Tilburg (Olanda), e l’Istituto Tecnologico
della Galizia (ITG). Ha avuto inizio nel dicembre 2012 ed è terminato
nel Novembre 2014.
Gli obiettivi del progetto erano diversi e sono stati costruiti attraverso alcuni
work streams. Nel complesso miravano a costruire un modello di training on line
per professionisti ed individui interessati alla mediazione nell’aerea UE ed a migliorare
ed incrementare il livello di competenze e conoscenze in materia, attraverso
l’utilizzo del web e di tecnologie informatiche, ma anche attraverso un
approccio ai temi dell’interculturalità e della comunicazione linguistica.
Inoltre, il progetto mirava a: (i) verificare l’esistenza o meno di common
standard in materia di mediazione nell’ambito dei Paesi membri dell’UE; (ii) facilitare
la cooperazione e la condivisione del know-how già acquisito in materia
di mediazione e ADRs tra i professionisti dell’area Euro; (iii) creare un’area europea
di “soft law” in materia civile e commerciale, nell’ambito della quale gli
ADRs possono essere considerati validi strumenti per prevenire o risolvere
controversie tra privati1.
Tutti i Colleghi e gli Amici che mi hanno fatto l’onore di partecipare a questo
volume hanno condiviso gli orizzonti scientifici ed il dibattito che ha animato
gli studiosi coinvolti nel progetto. Il dibattito è stato particolarmente vivo,
ricco, a più voci, interdisciplinare ed ha mostrato la possibilità di diversi approcci
al tema, indicando però un comune denominatore tra i vari tipi di mediazione
possibile, che qui, tutti insieme, abbiamo deciso di rendere e declinare
con l’endiadi “dialogo e modelli di mediazione”.
La scelta di raccogliere le nostre ulteriori riflessioni in un momento successivo
e distante quasi tre anni dalla chiusura del progetto è giustificata dalla circostanza
voluta, per cui tra noi si è continuato a discutere ed a confrontarsi sul
tema, cercando di individuare i diversi piani in cui l’endiadi “dialogo-mediazione”
rileva, ovvero ad un livello che attiene al dialogo tra privati (micro-dialogo)
tra parti e mediatore e, altresì, ad un livello istituzionale e di sistema (macro-
dialogo), che caratterizza i rapporti tra attori istituzionali della mediazione,
cioè il livello in cui il dialogo sulla mediazione attiene a scelte di policy, di rapporti tra sistema giustizia e cittadino, tra giudici, avvocati, mediatori ed altri stakeholders
qualificati, ordinamenti giuridici statali e minoranze culturali (minority
legal orders) all’interno dei singoli Stati
Un progetto tradito? La cittadinanza europea tra passato e futuro
No full textLa riflessione dell'autrice si concentra sul concetto di earned citizenship come tecnica per governare la libera circolazione delle persone3 all'interno dei sistemi di welfare statali con risorse sempre più limitate. Vengono analizzati alcuni leading cases riguardanti la figura del cittadino europeo economicamente inattivo, ma che pretende l'accesso ai programmi di assistenza soviale, pensionistica o altro, per evidenziare come sia stata costruita nella giurisprudenza della Corte di Giustizia Europea l'idea che la cittadinanza socuiale vada guadagnata e con essa i diritti sociali, ove il cittadino, esercitando la libertà fondamentale di circolazione, decida di spostarsi da uno stato membro all'altro. Nella parte conclusiva, alla luce di alcune riflessioni critiche sull'approccio tenuto negli ultimi dieci anni in Europra, si propongonbo alcune direttricu di intervento costituzionalmente orientate e in controtendenza
Wrongful birth and wrongful life. Floodgate argument and the balancing of conytrasting rights in courts law making
Full text linkThe decision analyzed affects damages forthe born child because of the impossibility for the mother to exercise the right to abortion, as the diagnosis was missing and she was not aware of the hard risk for her physical and
psychological health coming from the birth of a child affected by “down syndrome”. The study starts from the distinction between: a)Wrongful birth: the personal damages suffered by pregnant women, who have not had the possibility of self-determining in the prosecution of the pregnancy in case of pathological processes of the fetus; in particular, in those cases when a disease exposes herself and her health to a severe risk (a pre-condition for abortion, according to the Italian L. 194/1978), caused by the doctor's breach of contract and, in particular, because of the latter not informing the patient of the fetus illness. b)Wrongful life: the damages suffered directly by the conceived but not yet born fetus, because of the missed abortion; this category of damages has been invoked often by parents in case of fetus malformations o genetic diseases, when it is
not possible to ascertain the doctor's responsibility for the child's health damages, since the disease preexisted to medical treatment and intervention. The wrongdoing concerns only the lack of diagnosis and of
subsequent information, as the woman consequently could not exert her right to choose abortion and the child was born, while she/he shouldn’t have. After years of contrasting decisions SS.UU., has stated that there is no place for a “right to birth only if healthy” in the Italian legal system. In analyzing such decision, the study focus especially on:
I. burden of proof;
II. potential plaintiffs of such kind of action (parents, brother and sisters of the child and the child
her/himself);
III. comparative insights on how legislation, judges and scholars in other legal systems (Great Britain and
France) have managed with the floodgate argument, the rights of both the woman and the “unborn” child
Legal questions on financial market abuse: Criminal punishment penalties versus private law remedies
No full textPurpose - The purpose of this study is to underline the impact that globalization of financial markets has on national punishment policies. The US financial crisis has strongly affected consumers' lives, but the focus of this research is on the national provisions against the illegal and unfair behaviour of economic actors, with special regard to a phenomenon that took place abroad, but whose effects came to light in many different countries. Design/methodology/approach - Different methodological approaches, both deductive and inductive, are combined in the present paper, together with comparative and philosophical insights on national Court decisions and scholar writings. Findings - As European Union (EU) member States experts are discussing about a lex mercatoria for the financial markets to govern the EU integration process, this study highlights some questions concerning mainly three aspects: the level of censorship; forms and nature of responsibility; punitive models and their micro- and macro-economic effects. Originality/value - The study offers insights into the possible answers in terms of criminal and private law remedies to fight financial market abuse in a global dimension, through the use of general principles of contractual and tort law, which are common among EU member State, as culpa in eligendo, culpa in vigilando, duty of information, duty of care, ecc [...]
L'opposizione del marito all'aborto voluto dalla moglie
No full textGiovanni Criscuoli scrive il saggio in commento nel 1979, a qualche mese di distanza dall’entrata in vigore della Legge n. 194 del 22 Maggio 1978 sull’interruzione di gravidanza e a cinque anni dalla riforma del diritto di famiglia.
Partendo dal dato normativo dell’art. 5 della citata legge, che riconosce la donna unica titolare del diritto all’autodeterminazione alla scelta circa l’interruzione della gravidanza, e non prende minimamente in considerazione gli interessi di soggetti diversi rispetto alla madre (diritto alla salute) ed al nascituro (diritto alla vita), l’Autore si interroga circa la rilevanza dell’opposizione del marito all’aborto voluto dalla moglie. Semmai, ulteriore posizione in gioco è quella dell’ordinamento giuridico, inteso come soggetto che mira alla tutela degli interessi pubblicistici, connessi alla tutela della maternità, della vita e della salute
The residence permit for third-country nationals who are victims of human trafficking: A double-face instrument between compliance strategy and protection of human rights
No full textPurpose - The aim of the present study is to explore institutional design strategies that promote compliance by regulating peculiar sorts of agents, namely, human trafficking victims, starting from the point of view that institutions assume addressee virtue, but instead should consider the hypothesis of non-compliance or that the measures adopted reveal their inefficiency to satisfy the goals they were thought for, or that they are applied to obtain scopes, which are different from the ones they were conceived for. Design/methodology/approach - Different methodological approaches, both deductive and inductive, are combined in the present paper, together with comparative and philosophical insights on national court decisions, scholarly writings, national and international entities' official reports and statistics. Findings - Because EU member states' experts are discussing about common guidelines, policies and standards to manage migration fluxes and EU integration process, this study highlights some critical points arising from the specific condition of a peculiar human trafficking victim: a migrant. Originality/value - The study offers insights into the possible answers in terms of awarding prize to and humanitarian protection of victims to fight human trafficking and smuggling in a constructive way, emphasising that these instruments (awarding and humanitarian) are not mutually exclusive and can be mixed together
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