The article explores the fragmented legal framework governing third-country nationals’ (TCNs) entitlement to equal treatment with nationals of the host Member State regarding

access to social benefits under EU law. Access to social advantages for TCNs is shaped by detailed EU secondary legislation, which defines rights and obligations [...]

The essay moves from the analysis of the most recent developments in family law and particularly those elements pointing to a diagnosis of its crisis. The author then refers

to the recent re-emergence of the debate on the formants of family law so to propose an interpretation that finds in the overcoming of predetermined forms and in [...]

Less ambitious than the original proposals, the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83 focuses on the area of information duties and the right of withdrawal in B2C contracts. This

article analyses the new rules providing information obligations, and highlights some of the unresolved questions particularly concerning the level of consumer protection, [...]

Specific practices for the identification and the registration of people, not necessarily related to the State control of migration flows, were recorded in Sicily as well as

in the rest of Europe in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age. We should consider the need of individuals to establish their condition or to assure themselves [...]

The contribution consider, first, the original multiplicity of national legislative solutions with respect to the crucial issue of ‘punishability’ of criminal organisations;

then, identify the common standards under european harmonisation legislation, along with their respective characteristics and problems, in order to finally assess [...]

We argue that transnational criminal law has enacted a global rule by law enforcement agencies, at odds with the rule of law. Mutual legal assistance agreements (MLAA) allow

exporting law enforcement practices without proper judicial oversight. Consequently defendants required in extradition are exposed to abuses, as illustrated here [...]

Does the Chinese academic discourse on human rights differ from the official one as put forward by the Chinese government? How do Chinese legal theories justify the attribution

of human rights and their protection through the law in the context of an authoritarian state? Do Chinese academic theorizations on rights and the law have any capacity [...]

The note to judgment deals with the case of V.C.L. and A.N. v. the United Kingdom (applications nos. 77587/12 and 74603/12), in which the European Court of Human Rights considered

for the first time the relationship between Article 4 (prohibition of forced labour) of the European Convention and the prosecution of potential victims of trafficking. [...]