The short summary I prepared fleshes out the themes I hope to cover: Regulatory governance is well within a process of transformation from a managerial system deeply embedded in the classical model of the rule-of-law state grounded in positive (or customary) law pronounced by an authoritative body clothed in the legislative power, to the world of the panopticon and the disciplines. [read post]

Therefore, if a company is sued for patent infringement not before the courts of the country determined by the judicial competence criteria laid down in Regulation 1215/2012, but before the UPC, and that company questions the jurisdiction of the UPC on the grounds that the criteria set forth in art. 89 UPCA for its entry into force have not been fulfilled, judges will have to resolve the thorny legal issue that politicians, to avoid reopening a can of worms, are trying to sweep… [read post]

  The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is delighted to announce the publication of Volume 37, Issue 5 - 2024, a Special Issue titled "Legal Comparison Beyond the Law in Late Rodolfo Sacco," guest edited by Elena Ioriatti and Mario Ricca. [read post]