Giovedì 6 e Venerdì 7 febbraio 2025, ore 14:30, Aula Calasso
06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025
Giovedì 6 e Venerdì 7 febbraio 2025, ore 14:30, Aula Calasso
Prin FRAME and Diritti Comparati International Conference
“Fundamental Rights and Equality: Contemporary Debates”
Thursday, February 6th 2025
14:30 Welcome Address
Mirzia Bianca – Director of the Department of Legal Sciences, Sapienza University
Francesco Bilancia – Coordinator of the PhD Course in Public Law, Sapienza University
Andrea Buratti – Co-Director of Diritti Comparati
15:00 Session I Critiques and Counter-Critiques of Right
Chair and Introduction – Alessandra Di Martino, Sapienza University of Rome
Are Human Rights Compatible with Radical Inequality? - Justine Lacroix, Free University of Bruxelles
Forms of Critique. A Comparative Analysis - Giovanni Marini, University of Perugia
The Democratic Foundations of Constitutional Rights - Roberto Gargarella, University of Buenos Aires and University of Torcuato di Tella
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Critique of Rights in the Age of Late Fascism - Tim Wihl, University of Erfurt
Which Equality? Looking at Migrants’ Rights as a Mirror - Elisa Olivito, Sapienza University of Rome
18:00 – Debate
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Friday, February 7th 2025
9:30 Session II - Private Powers and Fundamental Rights in a World of Growing Inequalities
Part I Chair – Angelo Schillaci, Sapienza University of Rome
Which Antidiscrimination?
Care Work as the Other of Labour and Social Security Law. A Substantive Equality Perspective
Cara Röhner, Hochschule RheinMein Wiesbaden
Social Rights as Rights to Non-Discrimination (and Vice Versa). Some Reflections on the Meaning of the Word 'Social' in European Policies
Silvia Niccolai, University of Cagliari
Challenges for Union and Labour Rights
The Constitutional Attack on Labor Rights and Democratic Governance in the United States
Kate Andrias, Columbia University, New York
Fundamental Rights, Power Asymmetries and the Enforcement of EU Labour Legislation
Francesco Costamagna, University of Torino
11:30 Coffee-break
11:45 Part II
Chair – Alessandro Somma, Sapienza University of Rome
Corporations: Rights, Duties, Public Good
Beyond a Responsibility to Respect? The Case for the Positive Obligations of Corporations to Fulfill Fundamental Rights
David Bilchitz – University of Johannesburg and University of Reading, Acting Justice at the
South African Constitutional Court
Rights and Political Economy: from Formal Equality to the Neoliberal Exploitation of Inequality
Francesco Denozza – State University of Milan
13:00 Light Lunch
14:30 Climate Emergency and Transition Dilemmas
Just Transition and Green v. Green Litigation: Adjudication of Dilemmas towards a Low-Carbon Future
Joana Setzer – London School of Economics
The Ecological Crisis in the Legal Prism, Between False Dilemmas and Ambiguous Solutions
Silvia Bagni, University of Bologna
15:30 Part III
Chair – Cesare Pinelli, Sapienza University of Rome
Conflicts over Online Platforms and Artificial Intelligence
The Double Horizontality of Fundamental Rights: Constitutionalizing Online Platforms
Lars Viellechner, University of Bremen
From Automation to Autonomy: the AI Constitutional Challenge
Oreste Pollicino, Bocconi University of Milan
Institutions for Fundamental Rights Protection and Civil Society: Access and Selectivity
National Human Rights Institutions: New Perspectives in Fundamental Rights Protection
Antonia Baraggia, State University of Milan
Reframing the Systemic Function of Fundamental Rights: NHRIs and Civil Society
Giorgio Repetto, University of Perugia
17:30 Debate