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description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization / ISSN 2724-6299 (Online) is a diamond open-access and double blind peer-review scholarly journal that sets out to analyse the problems relating to the legal, political, and social changes attendant on globalization and global issues, proposing to provide these problems with theoretical answers. It is owned by the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Alma Human AI) and published by Alma Diamond, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna.
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items: Call for Papers for the Special Issue "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries in the Current Shaping of Global Governance"
items: Call for Experts (Peer-reviewers and Proofreaders)
items: Forthcoming "Decolonising Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" (vol. 7, 2027, no. 1)
items: Athena Webinar Series "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries on the Current Shaping of Global Governance"
items: CfP vol. 6 (2026), no. 2 "The transformations of globalization: power, geopolitics and law"
items: Open Submission, vol. 6 (2026), no. 1
items: Webinar "Globalization and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research: Some Critical and Perspectival Issues"
items: Forthcoming "Fictional Minds. The Law’s Misrepresentation of Human Thought" (vol. 5, 2025, no. 2)
items: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - VOL.5 (2025) N.2
items: CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 5 (2025) N.1
items: CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 4 (2024) N.2
items: Seminar "Israele e Palestina: cosa resta del diritto?"
items: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - VOL. 3 (2023), N. 2 (expired)
items: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Vol.3/2023
items: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (VOL.3/2023)
items: CALL FOR PAPERS (VOL.2/2022)
items: SITE UNDER MANTAINANCE
items: Editorial Proposal – “Sovereignty, International Law and Global Constitutionalism”
items: Future Issue: «Migrations and Justice»

Call for Papers for the Special Issue "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries in the Current Shaping of Global Governance"
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description: On 17 November 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Res. 2801, marking a turning point in the “governance of peace”. In addition to laying the groundwork for the implementation of the peace plan for the Gaza Strip (as agreed on 13 October 2025), the Resolution established the foundations for the creation of the “Board of Peace” (BoP). The BoP appears to be an entity endowed with international legal personality, tasked with the reconstruction of Gaza in accordance with the “Comprehensive Plan” of peace (Gaza Action Plan, GAP). As President 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”. Although the full impact of this body has yet to emerge, its establishment has already raised important questions concerning its role in global governance and its implications for contemporary approaches to peace-making. Indeed, the creation of this new entity constitutes a watershed in the international legal order established after the Second World War and raises fundamental questions that we should address. Building on the issues explored during our Webinar Series, this Special Issue seeks to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars from different fields. Scope of the Call for Papers The Special Issue aims to provide a broad analysis of the Board of Peace as a phenomenon within the international order from legal, political, historical and philosophical perspectives. Beyond these preliminary reflections, the BoP may represent a controversial model of global peace governance alongside, and potentially beyond, the institutional framework of the United Nations. Among the many issues that may be explored, we particularly welcome contributions addressing one or more of the following topics: The characteristics of the BoP in light of the traditional conception of international organisations and from different perspectives (e.g., is it an international organization in…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2026-07-21

Call for Experts (Peer-reviewers and Proofreaders)
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description: 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 the following fields: Philosophy of Law; Sociology of Law; International Law; EU Law; Public Law; Comparative Law; History of Law; Philosophy of International Law; International Relations; Political Philosophy; Political Thought; History of Political Doctrines; Historical Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology; Ethics and Applied Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Theoretical Philosophy; Philosophy of Technology and Science. We require extensive expertise in the field of study, professionalism, the ability to meet deadlines, and reliability. Peer reviewers must be doctoral students or above; for proofreaders, a high level of knowledge of British English as used in the respective field is mandatory. We seek to compile a list of these experts to be featured on our website. Are you interested in participating? Please send your CV to athena@unibo.it, copying luigi.sammartino2@unibo.it, by 31st August 2026. We will review all applications by the first week of September and will notify applicants of the outcome by 15 September 2026.
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2026-07-08

Forthcoming "Decolonising Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" (vol. 7, 2027, no. 1)
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description: Athena was created with the aim of exploring issues and challenges posed by globalisation, including the intensification of the meeting of cultures and traditions. This process inevitably questions the presumed centrality of Western knowledge and calls for an understanding of the ways in which Western traditions connect with and relate to the ones that have been systematically marginalised. Ultimately, this perspective stresses the importance of engaging with other approaches and cultures without claiming a position of superiority. This is precisely why it seems appropriate to dedicate an Issue to the decolonisation of legal studies, with the objective of exposing the epistemic assumptions that are inherent to legal production. Indeed, the issue of decolonising legal studies is foremost an epistemic one. The Issue, therefore, 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. Indeed, decolonial legal studies have been gradually expanding across several fields of law, including international law, philosophy of law, law and religion, law and gender, constitutional law, and comparative law. The purpose of this new scholarly movement is to address the role of colonialism and supremacy of the Global North in legal production and legal scholarship, ultimately rejecting the colonial construction of categories such as national, racial, ethnic, religious, and gender classifications, and trying to imagine an alternative to traditional categories upon which modern legal systems and studies rest, including the nation-state. The interdisciplinary and multicultural approach that will characterise the Issue will bring together scholars not only across different fields, including the ones mentioned above, but also across different geographical areas. In this way, we hope to shed light on two different yet related aspects: (i) the epistemic connection between the process of understandi…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2026-06-12

Athena Webinar Series "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries on the Current Shaping of Global Governance"
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description: On 17 November 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Res. 2801, which represents a point of no return in the “governance of peace”. On the one hand, the Resolution stands out for its procedural content, as it does not refer to the UN Charter or to previous Security Council resolutions on the Palestinian issue, as is customary practice, but instead cites the “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” of 25 September 2025 and “the Historic Trump Declaration for Lasting Peace and Prosperity” of 13 October 2025, as well as the constructive role played by the USA, Qatar, Egypt and Türkiye in facilitating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, 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. Indeed, the creation of this new entity represents a watershed with respect to the international legal order established after the Second World War and raises important new questions that we must attempt to address. The aim of this Webinar Series launched by Athena is, therefore, to bring certain issues to the foyer and examine them with experts. The common thread that will run through these meetings will be the role of law and politics in power dynamics. The main issues that will be explored include: • The legal personality of the BoP, the ways in which internal rules are established (starting with those that define conditions for admission and exclusion) and the decision-making processes therein; • The role of the UN and its inter…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2026-05-27

CfP vol. 6 (2026), no. 2 "The transformations of globalization: power, geopolitics and law"
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description: 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 the foundations for the creation of a new one. The exit of the United States from the WHO, the sanctions against the International Criminal Court, the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the decision of the American president to terminate the agreement reached by the OECD in 2021 on the global taxation of multinationals, the recent legislative proposals to protect the US enterprises from any application of due diligence regulations, the end of the U.S. Foreign Aid Agency system: all these indicate a clear orientation that expresses a growing conflict between power and law. The effects of this new American policy reverberate in several directions: against the supranational legal order that had been created after the Second World War; towards the revision of the traditional system of US alliances; towards the overcoming of the principles of liberal democracy; towards the decline of the West and the emergence of the power of the Global South; towards the international protection of human rights. Hence, a question arises: what has the West become, or what is becoming? Aims and Scope of the Call for Papers: This call for papers aims to investigate the transformation that globalization and the global order are facing from different perspectives. We aim to answer (although not exclusively) the following questions: Geopolitical scenarios and the transformation of the global legal order: what interaction? The role of international and regional institutions in directing this transformation; The transformation of global politics in the light of the exercise of unilateral powers; The impact of power on the global and regional economies; The role of civil society in the transformation of global politics; Law, geopolitics and new technologies: how do these tools influence global transformation? Power, geopolitics and protectio…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2026-01-05

Open Submission, vol. 6 (2026), no. 1
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description: 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). Contribution Types: Miscellanea: 9,000-15,000 words (footnotes and references included) Book Reviews: 5,000-10,000 words Scope: Contributions must address topics related to globalization or global issues and concerns, in alignment with our journal's focus. Submission Deadline: February 28, 2026 How to Submit: Manuscripts should be submitted through OJS platform in accordance with the Submission Rules. We welcome scholarly analysis on the said topics from any perspective and methodological approach within the fields of Philosophy, History, Law, Political Science, and International Relations. For more information or assistance, please contact the Editorial Office.
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date: 2025-12-01

Webinar "Globalization and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research: Some Critical and Perspectival Issues"
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description: When: 24 October 2025, h 4-6 PM CET. Online, via Teams (link to the event and registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/716dc7f6-8254-4c89-a861-68b1c743982b@e99647dc-1b08-454a-bf8c-699181b389ab). By registering to the event, you can also find the abstracts of presentations. Programme H 4-4:15 - Introductory Greetings: Gustavo Gozzi (Editor-in-Chief, Athena) and Luigi Sammartino (Journal Manager, Athena) H 4:15-5:30 – Session; Chair: Luigi Sammartino Sanne Taekema (Professor of Legal Theory, Erasmus University of Rotterdam) and Wibren van der Burg (Professor of Legal Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam) Methodologies of law-in-context research in a pluralist world Maria Wallenberg Bondesson (Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Futures Studies and Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University) Globalization and multidisciplinary approaches in the Humanities. Multidisciplinary and quantitative comparative methods in Swedish History and Legal History Christine Frison (Associate Research Professor in International Environmental Law and Director of the EcoLAWgy research centre, University of Liège) and Svetlana Gencheva (Associate Researcher at EcoLAWgy research centre, University of Liège) Ornamentation as a sequential art system to decolonize International Biodiversity Law H 5:30-6: Q&A session For participating, please send an email to luigi.sammartino2@unibo.it Scientific Organization: Gustavo Gozzi and Luigi Sammartino.
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2025-09-28

Forthcoming "Fictional Minds. The Law’s Misrepresentation of Human Thought" (vol. 5, 2025, no. 2)
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description: The theory and practice of law often rest on problematic assumptions about the functioning of the human mind. For example, law traditionally presupposes that its addressees are rational and strategic agents, that they are motivated by rewards and sanctions, that, regardless of their IQ or cultural level, they are able to predict the legal consequences of their actions, and that they are always prone to perform these actions on the basis of cost-benefit calculations. In recent years, an important strand of legal philosophy has started to challenge these assumptions, relying on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Legal provisions and doctrines usually presuppose folk-psychology, a very natural and commonsense way to think about thinking, one based on concepts such as intention, consent, will and belief, but which has turned out to often clash with the empirical findings. Empirical research consistently reveals that decision-making is not fully conscious, but also substantially intuitive and emotional, and constantly guided by heuristics and biases. Stressing this clash, some scholars for example have questioned the very foundations of democracy, arguing that it rests on an overly idealized view of political agency, one that assumes citizens are rational, self-interested, and well-informed. Others have challenged the traditional concept of criminal responsibility, which is still often conceived as demanding some version of free will, a notion that is difficult to reconcile with the deterministic image of nature described by the empirical sciences. Despite all these challenges, the law has shown remarkable resistance to revision, often persisting in its traditional assumptions as if they were in principle immune to empirical criticism. 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…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2025-07-14

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - VOL.5 (2025) N.2
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description: 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. 5 (2025), no. 2). Contribution Types: Miscellanea: 9,000-15,000 words (footnotes and references included) Book Reviews: 5,000-10,000 words Scope: Contributions must address topics related to globalization or global issues and concerns, in alignment with our journal's focus. Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2025 How to Submit: Manuscripts should be submitted through OJS platform in accordance with the Submission Rules. We welcome scholarly analysis from any perspective and methodological approach within the fields of Philosophy, History, Law, Political Science, and International Relations. More information or assistance may be requested to the Editorial Office.
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2025-06-08

CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 5 (2025) N.1
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description: Despite being a relatively recent addition to the Cambridge English Dictionary, the definition of the term “lawfare” has been hotly debated in academic circles, particularly in the fields of international law, international relations and military theory. The most widely cited definition in this respect was arguably provided by retired US Major General Charles J. Dunlap Jr., who described lawfare as “the strategy of using—or misusing—law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve a warfighting objective”. In spite of Dunlap’s intent to formulate a “neutral” concept within the frameworks of public international law, international politics and operational theory, this understanding of “law as a weapon” has given way to broader interpretations of the term “lawfare” which have been used in other legal contexts (such as human rights law) as well as other disciplines (such as geopolitics). Even though Dunlap’s definition of “lawfare” can be deemed appropriate in contemporary contexts such as Ukraine’s claims against Russia before the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, or Palestine’s claims against Israel before the International Court of Justice and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, there have also been contexts in which law has served as a complement to traditional military means rather than a substitute thereof. Notable examples in that respect have arisen from post-conflict disputes over the narrative of the conflict, especially among those sovereign states that emerged from a single, multinational sovereign state: e.g., Azerbaijan and Armenia; Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; also, if one is to observe more historical (and unitary) contexts, Turkey and Greece. In light of the foregoing, international crimes have been central to claims and counterclaims in the context of “lawfare” in addition to laying the groundwork for the formulation of denialism-related offences: the latte…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2024-12-29

CALL FOR PAPERS - Vol. 4 (2024) N.2
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description: Feminisms and globalization. Critical perspectives Orsetta Giolo and Annalisa Verza (Eds) As a result of neoliberal globalisation processes, massive changes have taken place that have directly affected the condition - legal, political, social, economic - of women. In this focus we intend to examine these transformations according to the proposals so far put forward by feminist critical theory, with particular reference to the debates that have been developed in different geographical and cultural contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the following themes: - Decolonial feminism - Feminism and neoliberalism - Black feminism and racialisation - Feminism and immigration - Feminism and climate change - Feminism and extractivism - Feminism and legal and political cosmopolitanism - Feminism and pacifism - Feminism and labour and sexual exploitation 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.
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2024-03-23

Seminar "Israele e Palestina: cosa resta del diritto?"
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description: Athena - Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization is proud to announce the first collaboration with the authoritative academic journal Jura Gentium, for promoting this interesting and timely seminar on the situation in Palestine. The seminar will be held online on 20 November 2023, h 05:30 pm, at the link https://meet.google.com/rno-beky-ugi. The seminar will be introducted by prof. Orsetta Giolo (University of Ferrara), co-director of the Review, and concluded by prof. Baldassare Pastore (University of Ferrara), member of the Scientific Committee. Hope anyone could enjoy it!
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2023-11-17

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - VOL. 3 (2023), N. 2 (expired)
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description: 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. After the fall of the Berlin wall, a unipolar world dominated by American hegemony emerged, and the process of globalisation was defined by the creation of a global market surrounded by capitalism without barriers. However, despite the exportation of capital in the global south, the delocalisation of production and the integration of China into the World-system, the above-mentioned crisis was not resolved: indeed, this process did not prevent, in the long run, the crisis of American hegemony and the emergence of other powers. In this scenario, three criticalities have shaped new forms of globalisation, which have accelerated the ongoing process and exacerbated the divergences in the multi-polar world. First, the recent pandemic has accentuated the North-South differences and inequalities between countries that are able to cope with the infections and those that lack the resources to cope with the spread of the pandemic. Second, climatic crises are marked by a conflict that is currently not overcome between "developed" and "underdeveloped" countries, where the latter claim the right to reach the level of development of the former, while not limiting energy consumption corresponding to the level of development they aspire to achieve. Third, the supply chain disruptions (which had already an impact on global growth and inflation) are further aggravated by the war of aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Confederation, which interacts with the previous criticalities. This war is not just the invasion of a sovereign country by another that claims "imperial" expansion. The causes of this war are complex and may be seen in many ways. In t…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2022-10-22

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Vol.3/2023
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description: 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. The Editorial Office will notify acceptance to authors by May 15th ,2022; the whole manuscripts shall be submitted to the Editorial Office by October 15th, 2022 for the double-blind peer review process. The Volume will be published in 2023.
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2022-05-05

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (VOL.3/2023)
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description: 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. Description Some believe that the increasing centrality of social justice and inclusion issues in public debate in liberal democracies is not matched by increasing freedom to actually discuss these issues. On 7 July 2020, for instance, 150 intellectuals and academics – e.g. Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker and Francis Fukuyama – signed an open letter denouncing the climate of dogmatic censorship and intolerance that has affected the public arena in recent years. The signatories of the appeal complain about ostracism exercised by those cultural and political circles from which one would expect a greater openness to diversity, i.e., left-wing circles or more generally of liberal persuasion. One of the central points raised by the petitioners is that the opinions that would fall under this censorship would not be those that are actually subversive, but rather those that counter the prevailing cultural and social thought. Although there is no explicit reference in the text of the letter, the set of practices characterized by this censorious attitude are often grouped in the mainstream debate under the notion of ‘cancel culture’: “[…] collective strategies by activists using social pressures to achieve cultural ostracism of targets (someone or something) accused of offensive words or deeds”. Typically, topics of interest include identity, inequality, fairness, and discrimination, emphasising gender, ethnicity, or social class issues. The expression 'cancel culture' became popular also thanks to social justice movements such as BlackLivesMatter and MeToo; and it is often associated with a certain kind of political rhetoric that has …
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2022-02-21

CALL FOR PAPERS (VOL.2/2022)
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description: RELEVANT INFORMATION AND DATES Abstracts should not exceed 500 words in length and must be submitted by 31 May 2021 to: athena@unibo.it. (please insert luigi.sammartino2@unibo.it and francesco.cavinato2@unibo.it in cc). Abstracts will first be evaluated by the editorial board who will notify acceptance by 15 June 2021. The full paper must then be submitted by 31 October 2021 for double-blind review; the confirmation of final acceptance will be provided by 31 December 2021. The paper should not be longer than 15000 words and 90000 characters. The complete submission guide can be found under the “Author Guidelines” on the journal's website. For inquiries please contact: athena@unibo.it. TOPIC: GLOBAL JUSTICE: THE CURRENT SITUATION AND THE NEW CHALLENGES This topic refers to the different interpretations of the problem of justice in the international frame, that can be addressed through a plurality of approaches: from the concept of global justice – quite different from that of international justice – and conceived as a global (distributive) justice according to distinction among relationism, non-relationism, pluralist internationalism (M. Risse), to the relationship between international justice and law of peoples (J. Rawls), to the concept of “cognitive justice” of Sousa Santos, to that of justice according to TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law), to the interpretation of justice in the frame of a transcivilizational international law (Onuma Yasuaki), or according to the perspective of “capabilities” (A. Sen) etc. The scientific interest in Global Justice includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Theories of Global Justice; - Democracy, Sovereignty and Global Institutions - Human Rights and Common Goods - Inequality and Poverty - Migrations, National Borders and Citizenship - Climate Change, Global Environment and Sustainability - Strategies for dealing with Global Crisis - Global Health and Pandemic Challenges - Multicultural and Gender…
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date: 2021-02-16

SITE UNDER MANTAINANCE
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date: 2020-11-21

Editorial Proposal – “Sovereignty, International Law and Global Constitutionalism”
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description: Within the framework of a controversial and reciprocal process of constitutionalization of international legal order and internationalization of constitutional law,1 one can easily see that two opposed phenomena are in progress: the erosion of sovereignty and the rising of different forms of nationalism. Since long time and namely with reference to the international field, sovereignty has irretrievably developed from an exclusive monopoly of the State to a broadly shared practice, exercised by a plurality of actors in different places, not only at national but also at sub-national and trans-national level. If State is now considered as a “Global State”,2 it has even ceased to be conceptualized and represented as the entitled subject of the sovereignty (here referred as the power of the State to enact law and exercise security and protection on its own territory), but has been developed into a valuable and “measurable” entity in relation to its own capacity and resources (as for the case of the economic development) and also in relation to risks it can produce and for which an immunization must be done.3 Aside of the different attempts to give again to sovereignty a central role in International legal order (for example, the rising of different forms of nationalism), two particular aspects are highlighted in this reconceptualization of sovereignty: the humanitarian turn of the International Community and the rising and legitimacy of new actors in the International legal order. As the result of a long, dramatic and discussed journey, international politics have now reached the humanitarian turn, which has reconceptualised sovereignty as a form of responsibility for the State, and has turned into the broadly accepted concept of “Responsibility to Protect”, posing also problems with the notion of “humanitarian intervention”. Indeed, this new concept allows to keep together the ambiguous dilemmas and effects stressing the exercise of the global governance; at the same ti…
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2019-07-05

Future Issue: «Migrations and Justice»
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description: 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. The interpretation of these phenomena implies the re-thinking of the categories of a plurality of disciplines: from the political thought, to cultural anthropology, to philosophy of law, to international law, to the philosophy of international law. On the one side, traditional concepts of political doctrines, such as sovereignty, citizenship, boundary need a new interpretation. On the other side, the processes of migration, that ought to be conceived as a “global social fact” (A. Sayad), entail the necessity of understanding the complexity of migration flows through an inter-cultural perspective. In the field of international relations there looms a complex system of relationships between the international law that refers to the relations among States, supranational institutions, non governmental organizations, and the insuppressible claim of the human rights’ protection of people looking for new horizons of hope and possibility of life. In short there takes shape a deep contrast between international law and cosmopolitan law. At last the philosophy of law is questioned over a crucial problem: which principles of justice have we to assume, both in domestic and international law, in order to face the reality of migrations? Is it conceivable a fair international society? And in domestic law the figure of migrant can be considered on the ground of criteria of justice or have we to accept only criteria of security and utility?
creator: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
date: 2017-04-21