Permanent Thematic Research Observatories

Systematic tracking of the 2023 Italian Public Contracts Code (result-oriented and good-faith principles), exclusion grounds, DGUE/ESPD disclosures, subcontracting, temporary consortia (RTI), price revision, operational risk in concessions, and Council of State / CJEU review.

Permanent observatory on Italian Constitutional Court review, preliminary references under Art. 267 TFEU, primacy and direct effect of EU law, European Court of Human Rights standards (Arts. 6, 7, 8 ECHR, Art. 1 Prot. 1), and constitutional counter-limits (controlimiti).

Tracking doctrinal and Supreme Court developments across general tort and strict custodial liability (Art. 2051 Civil Code), healthcare and medical malpractice (Law 24/2017), causal probability, loss of chance, non-pecuniary/bereavement damages (Art. 2059), and insurance coverage.

Focus on corporate governance and directors’ duties (Art. 2086 Civil Code), the Italian Crisis and Insolvency Code (negotiated restructuring, concordato preventivo, judicial liquidation), banking transparency, antitrust-void ABI guarantees, usury, and CONSOB market enforcement.

Analysis of Italian tax reform and tax litigation: mandatory pre-assessment adversarial hearing (contraddittorio preventivo), burden of proof and witness testimony in tax courts, ECHR safeguards during tax audits, abuse of law, EU VAT fraud/deduction jurisprudence, and tax collection.

Examination of reinstatement and compensation remedies in unfair dismissals, disability sick-leave (comporto) and EU reasonable accommodation duties, constitutional minimum wage adequacy, anti-union conduct remedies (Art. 28 Law 300/1970), workplace surveillance, and employer safety duties.

Observatory on offences against public administration, money laundering and tax/insolvency crimes, direct and value-based confiscation of criminal profit, corporate criminal/administrative liability (Decree 231/2001), pre-cautionary judicial interrogation, and fair-trial guarantees.

Cross-disciplinary research on algorithmic transparency in administrative and private decision-making, GDPR enforcement by the Garante Privacy, online platform liability and social-media defamation, electronic justice (PCT/PTT), digital forensics, and crypto-assets.