This paper covers the challenge of effective human rights protection online. It argues that international law provides sufficient background to identify the limits of states’ obligations to protect human rights in cyberspace. Referring to the work of the United Nations (UN) Human … [Read more...]

This paper tracks the origins of one of Europe’s most ubiquitous instrument: the acquis. Thereby, it aims at initiating a new research programme on the genealogy of Europe’s cognitive and technique equipment. Instead of considering the acquis as a self-explanatory and transparent … [Read more...]

The issue of DNA database legislation is one of the most delicate challenges of legislative harmonization at the European level. The balance between the right to privacy, and the right to security and to fair trial is hard to be achieved and it depends a lot from the cultural, … [Read more...]

Although not originally foreseen in the founding Treaty, today the most important and widespread form of EU regulation in the internal market is concerned with the government of risk. Indeed, similarly to what occurred in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, the EU has in … [Read more...]

The history of migration policy in Europe and United States between the late XIX and the early XX century offers several issues of comparison with the current EU regulation. The paper analyzes, with a historical-philosophical approach, these two experiences with the main focus on … [Read more...]