Traditional ideas about the private nature of the international legal order are increasingly being forced to contend with the development of public legal elements at the international

level. The notion of the international community interest is key to understanding these developments and, as such, has transformed our understanding of international [...]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, even while many traditional restrictions on telemedicine have been relaxed, few states have suspended existing regulatory restrictions on the

remote provision of medication abortions (teleabortions). Simultaneously, an overlapping subset of states have cited the public health emergency as a reason to curtail [...]

How do certain social conflicts come to fall within the law? How does the law come to have its space? I argue that law emerged in British Honduras through a structure of racial

differentiation. The law arrived as a mode of ordering space, bodies, and justice that realizes an immanent structure of racial difference. [...]

In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word

and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s [...]

The studies on the history of the notion of “personhood” have largely recognized that Christian thought had a central role in the development and significance of this concept

throughout the history of Western civilization. In late antiquity, Christianity used some terms taken from the classic and Hellenistic vocabulary in order to express [...]

European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. The ‘years of lead’ commonly refer in Italy to the decade of the 1970s, characterized by widespread conflictuality, the

use of violence for political aims and harsh state repression of political activism. [...]

European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the topic of ideologies underlying organized crime using interviews with individuals living in Mafia-affected

territories. High school and university students produced narratives that reflected their ideologies about organized crime, which were duly compared with the ideologies [...]

Criminal theorists struggle to account for the “totality principle”—the idea that no matter how many small crimes you commit, your punishment should not exceed that for

a more serious offense. Andrew Ashworth, for instance, argues that “overall proportionality” should be preserved but that this is a “pragmatic” solution. [...]