OBSERVATORY OF LAW AND PLURALISM
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free" (Charles E. Hughes)
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10-11-2025
La crisi costituzionale della Bosnia Erzegovina a 30 anni dagli Accordi di pace di Dayton
Presentazione libro presso Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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13-10-2025
Seminar at the University of Insubria
Religions, public order, and european constitutional identity
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22-05-2025
Workshop at the University of Milano Statale
Boosting a Sustainable Religious Pluralism: Public Order and European Constitutional Identity (SURPLEI)
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La religione civile tra autorità e libertà, Tania Pagotto (Giappichelli, 2024)
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The Protection of Human Rights in the Face of the Climate Emergency
The expansion of climate litigation reflects the transformation of state climate obligations into legal duties to protect human rights. International courts (ECtHR, Inter-American Court, ICJ) have recognized the climate emergency as a threat to fundamental rights, imposing mitigation and adaptation obligations on states, but creating the challenge of harmonizing different jurisdictions.
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11/12/2025 Judgment
Agrisud 2014 s.r.l. semplificata and Others. v. Italy, No. 32539/18 and 7 others, ECtHR (First Section), 11 December 2025
In accordance with the leading case Italgomme v. Italia, the failure of domestic legislation to lay down specific conditions for authorising tax inspections in commercial or professional premises, as well as the absence of effective ex ante or ex post remedies against the unlawfulness of investigative measures, constitutes a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
11/12/2025 Judgment
Locatrans v. ES, Case C-485/24, CJEU (First Section), 11 December 2025
Determination of the law applicable to an employment contract presenting cross-border elements for the purposes of assessing the lawfulness of a termination of employment, on the basis of the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations, opened for signature in Rome on 19 June 1980 («Rome Convention»).
18/02/2025 Judgment
Council of State of Italy, Seventh Section, No. 1710/2025, 18 February 2025
The designation of areas for worship in municipal urban planning.
19/11/2025 Judgment
In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review (Appellant), [2025] UKSC 40, 19 November 2025
According to the UK Supreme Court, religious instruction in Northern Ireland is incompatible with the ECHR
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