Announcements

• Forthcoming "Fictional Minds. The Law’s Misrepresentation of Human Thought" (vol. 5, 2025, no. 2)

  2025-07-14

  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.

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• CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - VOL.5 (2025) N.2

  2025-06-08

  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:

  • Miscellanea: 9,000-15,000 words (footnotes and references included)
  • Book Reviews: 5,000-10,000 words (footnotes and references included)

  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.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 5 (2025) N.1

  2024-12-29

  "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

  • Mandatory deadline for paper submission: 28 February 2025;
  • First evaluation and notification by Editors: 7 March 2025;
  • Mandatory final submission after peer review: 10 May 2025

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• CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 4 (2024) N.2

  2024-03-23

  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

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• Seminar "Israele e Palestina: cosa resta del diritto?"

  2023-11-17

  Athena - 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

   

   

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• CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - VOL. 3 (2023), N. 2 (expired)

  2022-10-22

  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.

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• CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Vol.3/2023

  2022-05-05

  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. 

   

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• CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (VOL.3/2023)

  2022-02-21

  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

   

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• CALL FOR PAPERS (VOL.2/2022)

  2021-02-16

  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)

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• SITE UNDER MANTAINANCE

  2020-11-21

  The Journal's website is currently under mantainance by Journal Managers / AlmaDl. 

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• Editorial Proposal – “Sovereignty, International Law and Global Constitutionalism”

  2019-07-05

  Within 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.

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• Future Issue: «Migrations and Justice»

  2017-04-21

  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.

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