Human rights and their protection: law and customary practice

The issue of human rights runs transversally through all areas of law, and in the light of the approaches adopted by jurisdictional bodies, we thus need to assess how the rights of the individual are ensured, protected and above all promoted. The papers collected here deal with the theoretical and practical legal issues involved in reconciling domestic and supranational legal systems and judicial decisions. They also de facto deal with the related linguistic difficulties of commenting on Italian legislation and case law in English, whose legal terminology and discourse are rooted in a legal system displaying at times significant differences to that of Italy. These papers are, then, also attempts to engage with and resolve the conflicts such differences may engender. This book brings together reflections by doctoral students in Law at the University of Messina Department of Law (32nd, 33rd, and 34th PhD programmes) on human rights issues which have been analysed or resolved in supranational case law.