Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law
About the Book Series
This series brings together the most significant works in Law and Legal Studies by Italian authors that have been selected by the Giappichelli publishing house. It features cutting-edge research, addressing all of the major issues across a wide range of subjects, helping to define and advance the field.
Artificial Intelligence and Labour Law: A Global Overview
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Biasi
August 11, 2026
This volume provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the organization of work. As algorithmic management is proliferating across industries, market players have started utilizing automated decision-making tools throughout the entire employment ...
Ecological Sustainability and the Law: The European Green Deal and the New Frontiers of Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Edoardo Chiti, Andrea Giorgi
July 20, 2026
This book explores the emergence of ecological sustainability as a new EU policy and legal objective, distinct and autonomous from sustainable development. It argues that sustainability can no longer be conflated into sustainable development only, but should rather be represented as a plural ...
Judicial Review, Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law: The Construction of the European Constitutional Identity
1st Edition
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By Maria Grazia Rodomonte, Ludovica Durst
July 20, 2026
This book explores the complex issue of building a common European identity and the factors that contribute to it, with special regard to the role played by the interaction between national Constitutional Courts and European Courts. There is no doubt that the Courts have been key actors in the ...
Legal Responses to Mass Migration: From the Nineteenth Century to World War II
1st Edition
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By Luigi Nuzzo, Michele Pifferi, Giuseppe Speciale, Cristina Vano
July 20, 2026
This volume explores the legal history of migration and the role played by legal theories, case law, practices, customary laws, and legislations in shaping and governing mobility between the 19th century and the Second World War. Based on different methodological approaches and sources, including ...
International Law and Common Concerns of Humankind: The Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By Alberta Fabbricotti
July 07, 2026
The concept of the “common concern of humankind” (CCH) has gradually been incorporated into international law. Following the 2025 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on climate change, its international legal status is beyond doubt. International law attributes significant ...
A Global Labour Law: Towards a New International Framework for Rights and Justice
1st Edition
By Adalberto Perulli, Vania Brino
June 22, 2026
This book explores the prospects of a global labour law system. Global labour law is understood as a still non-coherent set ofnorms that at different levels and with different legal effectiveness regulate legal labour relations, promote respect for fundamental social rights, and condition the ...
International Sanctions in Practice: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
1st Edition
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By Antonio Bultrini, Francesco Giumelli, Clara Portela, Mirko Sossai
May 22, 2026
This book addresses key aspects relating to the use of international sanctions by assembling contributions from different fields of expertise with a view to providing readers with an interdisciplinary perspective. Unilateral or plurilateral restrictive measures, commonly referred to as “sanctions”,...
Regulation of Outer Space: International Space Law and the State
1st Edition
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By Claudia Cinelli
May 22, 2026
This edited book focuses on how States should regulate activities in space and explores strategies to advance State responsible behaviour to ensure sustainable use and effective protection of outer space for peaceful purposes. The time seems ripe to bring international law into the space ...
Sustainability and Animal Welfare: Legal and Scientific Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Francesca Rescigno, Diana Cerini
April 18, 2026
The book explores the theme of promoting the environment and animal rights through a comparative and multidisciplinary approach. Most of the authors have a legal background, but the approach is not limited to law, because today more than ever a synergy between disciplines appears essential, and ...
Criminal Justice and Data Protection: Communication Metadata under EU Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Isadora Neroni Rezende
April 07, 2026
The use of traffic and location data in criminal justice is now a common prac-tice in the EU and beyond. Although metadata do not reveal the contents of communications, they allow to draw precise conclusions on the private lives of users, like their everyday habits, places of residence, daily ...
Individual Will and the Civil Law Tradition: Rethinking Lex Privata
1st Edition
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By Tommaso dalla Massara
February 27, 2026
This volume sets out to explore the relationship between individual will (voluntas) and the legal rule. What unfolds in the following pages is a wide-ranging itinerary, moving between past and present, most notably ancient Rome and the contemporary world. The guiding question is as radical as it is...
Security, Constitutionalism and Legal Systems
1st Edition
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By Paola Piciacchia
February 20, 2026
The book explores, through new studies, the theme of security in its multiple dec-linations from a comparative and European public law perspective. It highlights the current complexity of the dynamics related to public security at the domestic and international levels and the reflections that these...