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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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Law and plural society: open issues
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Enrico Vitali canonista, ecclesiasticista e matrimonialista

Parenthood-oriented self-determination. Notes on Constitutional Court 21 March 2025, no. 33

The Italian Constitutional Court once again ruled on the legitimacy of the subjective requirements to access adoptions, balancing the best interest of the abandoned child and parenthood-oriented self-determination.

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The exercise of religious worship in public places and/or places open to the public and its relationship with current urban planning regulations concerning “territorial policy”.

This contribution concerns the issue, recently addressed by the Supreme Court, of the prescription of liability of the director of a trade union association arising from the non-transparent management of the association’s activities. In particular, the Supreme Court comes to identify the dies a quo of the prescription period of the right to compensation for damages arising from the mala gestio at the time when the damage is manifested externally.

Placing an infant in temporary foster care.

Surname substitution of the adoptee who has reached the age of majority with that of the adopter. Reasonableness of the differences between the rules governing the adoption of minors and adults.

Constitutional history: a new research between Milan and Belgrade - S. Milosevic, PhD

Constitutional history: a new research between Milan and Belgrade - S. Milosevic, PhD

Understanding Conscientious Objection - Prof. W. Brzozowski

Understanding Conscientious Objection - Prof. W. Brzozowski

Turkey's individual application to the Constitutional Court: suggestions to Italy? - B. Hayrullahoğlu, PhD

Turkey's individual application to the Constitutional Court: suggestions to Italy? - B. Hayrullahoğlu, PhD

Islam and Europe: grounds for peaceful coexistence - Prof. A. Pin

Islam and Europe: grounds for peaceful coexistence - Prof. A. Pin

The constitutional challenges posed by the ratification of the CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) in Irish law - Prof. G. Barrett

The constitutional challenges posed by the ratification of the CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) in Irish law - Prof. G. Barrett