A Call for Papers for the 2027 Special Issue on the Board of Peace and its possible implications for global governance.
Read more about Call for Papers for the Special Issue "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries in the Current Shaping of Global Governance"Athena keeps expanding its output and scholarly scope!
To uphold the high standards it has achieved over the years, Athena also recognises the importance of ensuring that all submitted papers undergo careful evaluation and thorough review prior to publication.
For this reason, we are looking for external reviewers and proofreaders in several fields covered by the Review. Details in the announcement.
Read more about Call for Experts (Peer-reviewers and Proofreaders)Edited by Micol Pignataro and Lidia Bonifati (University of Bologna).
Since the present crisis of Western knowledge and traditions, new approaches are on the horizon.
To expose the epistemic assumptions that are inherent to legal production, the forthcoming issue on "Decolonising Legal Studies" intends to reflect upon the Eurocentric nature of modern legal studies, in line with a strand of literature that has developed over the past decades.
Read more about Forthcoming "Decolonising Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" (vol. 7, 2027, no. 1)On 17 November 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Res. 2801, which represents a point of no return in the “governance of peace”. The Resolution sets out the process for establishing the “Board of Peace” (BoP): an entity endowed with international legal personality for the reconstruction of Gaza in accordance with the aforementioned “Comprehensive Plan”. As Trump declared during the BoP’s first meeting, “this Board has the chance to be one of the most consequential bodies ever created in the history of the world”.
While the impact of this body has not entirely manifested itself yet, it has already raised significant questions about the extent of its relevance in global governance and the strategies for peace-making. This webinar series will try to critically analyse the main issues surrounding the BoP.
Read more about Athena Webinar Series "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries on the Current Shaping of Global Governance"The election of the 47th president of the United States triggered not only a change within the global order as we know it but also laid down the foundations for the creation of a new order. The current changes indicate a clear orientation that expresses a growing conflict between power and law.
Hence, a question arises: what has the West become or what is becoming?
Read more about CfP vol. 6 (2026), no. 2 "The transformations of globalization: power, geopolitics and law"The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for our Miscellanea and Book Reviews sections for evaluation and publication in the upcoming issue (vol. 6, 2025, no. 1).
Read more about Open Submission, vol. 6 (2026), no. 1Athena is proud to announce the very first live event of its editorial activity, by proposing a webinar on reflections on the possible impact of globalization on academic research and the development of multidisciplinary approaches, changing the proper methodologies.
24 October 2025, h 4-6 PM CET.
Online, via Teams.
For participating, please send an email to luigi.sammartino2@unibo.it
Read more about Webinar "Globalization and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research: Some Critical and Perspectival Issues"The theory and practice of law often rest on problematic assumptions about the functioning of the human mind.
Fictional Minds is a monographic section of Athena, vol. 5 (2025), no. 2, co-edited by Michele Ubertone and Giuseppe Rocchè. It brings together a range of contributions aimed at exploring the consequences, positive and negative, of the law’s tendency to rely a fictional rather than real minds. Can assumptions about the rationality of legal agents still be defended as transcendental categories or regulative ideals? Some legal assumptions may prove defensible, not because they are empirically accurate, but because they serve some important social functions.
Read more about Forthcoming "Fictional Minds. The Law’s Misrepresentation of Human Thought" (vol. 5, 2025, no. 2)The Editorial Board is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for our Miscellanea and Book Reviews sections for evaluation and publication in the Vol. 5/2025, no. 2.
Contributions must address topics related to globalization or global issues and concerns, in alignment with the journal's focus. Scholarly analysis from any perspective and methodological approach within the fields of Philosophy, History, Law, Political Science, and International Relations are welcomed.
Contribution Types:
More about Formatting and Citation Code available in the Author Guidelines
Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2025
How to Submit: Manuscripts should be submitted through OJS platform in accordance with the Submission Rules.
More information or assistance may be requested to the Editorial Office.
Read more about CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - VOL.5 (2025) N.2"Lawfare and the Future of International Crimes"
This Call for Papers will aim at selecting papers on different disciplinary perspectives on the term "lawfare" and its relationship with the conception and application of international crimes.
Deadlines
FEMINISMS AND GLOBALIZATION. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Orsetta Giolo and Annalisa Verza (Eds)
Deadlines
Abstracts (maximum 1000 characters) should be sent to orsetta.giolo@unife.it and annalisa.verza@unibo.it and, in c.c., to athena@unibo.it, by 30 May 2024
Selected papers must be submitted by 15 September 2024
Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 4 (2024) N.2Athena - Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization is proud to invite anyone interested to the Seminar "Israele e Palestina: cosa resta del diritto?" jointly organized with Jura Gentium.
The event will take place online through Google Meet (link, below) on 20 November 2023, h 5:30 pm and it will be conducted in Italian.
https://meet.google.com/rno-beky-ugi
Read more about Seminar "Israele e Palestina: cosa resta del diritto?"
NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE : DECEMBER, 16TH - 11.59 pm (GMT+1) - (EXPIRED)
New order or world disorder?
The current international situation raises many questions about the future and the forms of globalisation, conceived as a regime involving a global spatial fix of capital as a reaction against the crisis of accumulation of the Fordist regime and labour struggles in the core States of the capitalist system.
Read more about CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - VOL. 3 (2023), N. 2 (expired)The Editorial Board sincerely thanks all Authors who submitted their Abstracts for the Volume on "Disagreement, Free Speech, and Cancel Culture"
Each abstract will be evaluated in order to be considered eligible for the Volume.
More information, below.
Read more about CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Vol.3/2023
The editors of Athena. Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization invite submissions for the forthcoming issue on the topic of Disagreement, Free Speech, and Cancel Culture. Manuscripts from researchers of all disciplinary areas whose work addresses the political, philosophical and legal aspects arising from this topic will be welcome.
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30th, 2022
Read more about CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (VOL.3/2023)
GLOBAL JUSTICE: THE CURRENT SITUATION AND THE NEW CHALLENGES
The editors of Athena. Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization invite submissions for the forthcoming issue on the topic of Global Justice: the Current Situation and the New Challenges. Manuscripts from researchers of all disciplinary areas whose work addresses the political, philosophical and legal aspects arising from the challenges of global justice will be welcome.
Deadline for Abstracts: May 31st, 2021 (Deadline Extended)
Read more about CALL FOR PAPERS (VOL.2/2022)The Journal's website is currently under mantainance by Journal Managers / AlmaDl.
Read more about SITE UNDER MANTAINANCEWithin the framework of a controversial and reciprocal process of constitutionalization of international legal order and internationalization of constitutional law, one can easily see that two opposed phenomena are in progress: the erosion of sovereignty and the rising of different forms of nationalism.
Read more about Editorial Proposal – “Sovereignty, International Law and Global Constitutionalism”The sovereignty of national states, that is, their control over a specific population and country, is currently challenged by many factors. In this respect, migrations represent a phenomenon of great significance: traditional conceptions of borders seem no longer adequate in view of the extent of the movements of huge masses of human beings.
Read more about Future Issue: «Migrations and Justice»
