Rome, 16/04/2024
Report on the activities of the PhD programme in Legal Public Studies (Academic Year 2022/23)
In the course of 2023, the PhD programme in Legal Public Studies continued its focus on the advanced training of doctoral students through copious seminars, lectures and international conferences organised by all the members of the college, with the involvement of Italian and foreign colleagues of the highest scientific and academic level.
All the doctoral students, in addition to actively participating in doctoral meetings and teaching activities, have fruitfully carried out their research work under the guidance and control of the supervisor and co-supervisor. Many of them have also taken advantage of the opportunity to spend a period of study at other Italian and foreign universities, both in the form of a research stay and through participation in seminars and conferences, in Italy and abroad (drawing on the financial resources made available to them by the doctoral programme).
Thanks to the intermediation of Prof. Maurizia De Bellis, a collaboration with Albania has been set up through a cooperation agreement between the Doctorate in Legal Public Studies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the Doctorate at the Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durres for the purpose of obtaining an Italian-Albanian double degree.
A PNRR grant is active for the 38th cycle, which has led both to the internationalisation of the doctorate, in that the doctoral student is required to spend six months a year at a foreign university or institute, and to its closer relationship with the world of work, thanks to the involvement of law firms and research centres. A scholarship for foreign doctorates is also active for the 38th cycle, which equally contributes to the internationalisation, multidisciplinarity and intersectionality of the doctorate.
Starting from the traditional inaugural day of the Doctorate, which in 2022 saw the lecture by the Director of the Department of Law of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Prof. Venerando Marano, on the topic: Protection of personal data and religious denominations, introduced by the Coordinator of the Doctorate, Prof. Marco Fioravanti, the Doctorate has continued its profitable teaching activity with the following initiatives
- involved as Visiting Professor, Prof. Francisco Balaguer Callejón, an internationally renowned jurist from the University of Granada, who, as part of the didactic activities of the Doctorate in Public Law Studies, gave 20 hours of lectures for doctoral students, on the following topics: The constitution of the algorithm, introduced by Prof. Stefano Preziosi; The question of truth in the digital society; and Control of constitutionality and relations between legal systems, both introduced by Prof. Andrea Buratti.
- Andrea Buratti and Donatella Morana organised a scientific seminar on Solidarity and social rights;
- Cristiano Cupelli invited Prof. Giuseppe Amarelli for a lecture on The appeal sentence on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation: from the media-judicial condemnation to the acquittal of the 'institutional' co-defendants;
- Andrea Buratti organised a round table with Gianluca Bascherini, Valeria Tamburrini and Marco Fioravanti on thePrinciple of Solidarity in the Constitutional State;
- Donatella Morana, as part of the Prin 2020 she coordinated, organised a scientific seminar on The State/Regions' competences in health matters beyond the pandemic emergency;
- Jean-Bernard Auby, from Sciences Po in Paris, gave a lecture on Algorithms and Public Decisions, at the invitation of Maurizia De Bellis;
- Alessandro Roiati gave a lecture entitled L'impatto della riforma Cartabia sul diritto penale sostanziale tra nuovi paradigmi e questioni irrisolte;
- Rosa Maria Geraci gave a lecture on La notitia criminis nella Riforma Cartabia: notion, time of entry, controls;
- Maurizia De Bellis organised a round table discussion on the volume edited by Hilde Caroli Casavola, Le migrazioni e l'integrazione giuridica degli stranieri;
- Andrea Buratti gave a lecture on Fundamental Rights and Democracy. The issue of abortion in the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision;
- Laura Capraro gave a lecture on The pre-trial hearing: a new and debated figure
- Pierpaolo Dell'Anno organised an important conference at the Foro Italico, entitled: La Riforma Cartabia tra prime applicazioni e prospettive di adeguamento (The Cartabia Reform between first applications and prospects for adaptation), involving leading jurists and political experts on the subject;
- Lawyer Giovanni Luigi Guazzotti gave two lectures on: The liability of the territorial public body and The European Arrest Warrant;
- Cristiano Cupelli gave a lecture on Medical Criminal Liability;
- Cupelli then organised, in collaboration with the University of Florence, two seminars: the first with Prof. Vincenzo Roppo, on Garantismo and the second on Le metfore antropomorfiche nel diritto: funzioni speculative e regolative;
- In the context of Prof. Morana's Prin 2020, a seminar was organised entitled: The regional dimension of solidarity: health and social provision to the test of territorial differentiation;
- Dr Fabio Massimo Gallo, former President of the Labour Section at the Court of Appeal in Rome, gave a dense lecture, drawing on his 40 years of experience as a labour judge, on safety in the workplace;
- Pierre Brunet, from the Sorbonne in Paris, gave a lecture on American Legal Realism;
- Paolo Troisi gave a seminar on Criminal Execution and Judicial Amendments. Legal framework and jurisprudential paths;
- Anna Maria Chiarello held a seminar on Il provvedimento amministrativo algoritmico;
- Andrea Buratti organised a conference on The Dimensions of Solidarity in the European Union;
- An important seminar, at the Foro Italico, on the subject of the discipline of immigration in the face of epochal transformations, involved numerous members of the Doctorate, including Giovanni Guzzetta, Fiammetta Borgia, Alberto Zito, Francesco Saverio Marini, Marco Fioravanti, as well as other scholars such as Elena Sciso, Simona D'Antonio, and Natale D'Amico;
- another important seminar, again at the Foro Italico, was held on the topic of The State of the State, around Lorenzo Casini's bookLo Stato (im)mortale. I pubblici poteri tra globalizzazione ed era digitale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2023), which saw the participation of Alberto Zito, Giovanni Guzzetta, Aristide Police, Maurizia De Bellis, Jacopo Vavalli, Nino Paolantonio and Marco Fioravanti;
- the PhD Coordinator organised a round table discussion on an important book by a historian and a legal historian, Italio Birocchi and Eloisa Mura, entitled: La missione del giurista. The Parallel Itinerary of Emilio Betti and Aurelio Candian, which was attended not only by the authors but also by Professors Roberto Fiori, Giuseppe Guizzi and Marco Fioravanti;
- Stefano Preziosi organised a conference at the Court of Rome entitled Le pene sostitutive nella riforma Cartabia. A new penal paradigm?
- Rosa Maria Geraci organised the lecture by Angel Tinoco Pastrana from the University of Seville on The future European orders for the production and preservation of electronic evidence. Challenges in the digitisation of criminal judicial cooperation in the European Union;
- Adolfo Scalfati organised a conference entitled Dialogues on Criminal Justice: Role and Orientations of the Supreme Court;
- Francesco Saverio Marini organised a Conference entitled: Institutional Reforms and Forms of Government. A comparison;
- Donatella Morana and Marta Megozzi organised a seminar on Health and the Condition of Women in Prison;
- Donatella Morana, Concetta Giunta, Stefania Mabellini, Francesca Morganti, Carla Solinas and Andrea Buratti led a seminar on: 'e-Constitution': the metamorphosis of rights in the digital era;
- Rosa Maria Geraci gave a lecture on Riforma Cartabia: the new extraordinary appeal for the enforcement of Strasbourg Court judgments;
- Francesco Saverio Marini organised a conference on theImpact of the PNRR on the Italian and European constitutional system;
- an important moment of study was represented by the International Seminar on Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence, with an introduction by the Doctorate Coordinator, Marco Fioravanti, and by Stefano Preziosi, Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Law Research Centre, with papers by Alberto Zito, Nino Paolantonio, Angelo Giuseppe Orofino and Eva Menendez Sebastian, and with conclusions by a Master of administrative law such as Franco Gaetano Scoca.
Marco Fioravanti
Coordinator of the PhD in Legal-Public Studies