Research
Research Delegate: Prof. Marina Mancini
The lines of research pursued by the Department in recent years are multiple even if, where possible, interdisciplinary topics and areas have been chosen.
A research project developed in agreement with the Calabria Region and the professional associations has allowed the creation of an online site of the Observatory of Public Policies for Local Authorities, which brings together research, bibliographical and jurisprudential materials that delve into issues relating to the legislation of territorial bodies.
In the field of prevention, international research has been developed in order to fight corruption and confiscate the proceeds of crime, also in collaboration with the UN headquarters in Vienna and the Italian Representation to the International Organizations present there, which has hosted teachers and students for training internships. In this field, Cerpec (Research Center on Prevention Measures and the Economy of Crime) operates, which, in agreement with the Court of Reggio Calabria and with the collaboration of the Agency for Confiscated Assets based in Reggio Calabria, involves students and specialists in the sector in the study of prevention measures and social use of confiscated assets.
On the socio-economic development side, there are the Applied Research Laboratories: the Cat Lab (Economics and Management of cultural environmental and tourist resources) enhances cultural, tourist and environmental assets; the Decisions Lab studies the choice methods of institutional decision makers, structuring international level research.
Finally, the Department has cultivated a line of research on citizenship rights, also in this case with local repercussions, as the territory is a landing place for people fleeing war and poverty. The Research Center on Citizenships ( CeRiC ), which includes professors from 11 universities with an international scientific committee - analyzes, from an interdisciplinary perspective, national and supranational citizenships, in the context of the processes of social inclusion of the new poor and immigrants and collaborates with various local institutions. The CeRiC has currently started research involving over twenty scholars for the creation of a "Dictionary of the rights of foreigners". The MICHR (Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research) is a network of 40 universities, mostly from Latin America, for the study and comparison of human rights in the various legal systems.
Citizenship rights are also expressed through the quality of a wide-ranging cultural offering. In this context, the Laboratory for the Aesthetics of Law ( CRED ) organizes the Festival of Literature and Law, with the involvement of writers and directors and a specific course in Law and Literature, aimed at high school students. Specialist publications on Roman law by the Laboratory of Legal Epigraphy and Papyrology.
The Interdisciplinary Research Center on Disability created within the Department, in agreement with the University, is a place to address the challenges related to the inclusion of diversity in the social context.
The Department is also the main office in Italy of the Italian-Argentine Association of Professors of Administrative Law.
The Department edits the online journal of class A of area 12 Economic Law.
The Department's library, in addition to having a particularly significant documentary heritage, also has a large catalogue with the possibility of online consultation of magazines, thus offering the territory a valid tool for updating not only for private individuals but also for professionals, notary magistrates and public administrations. In the two main locations (Palazzo Zani and Salita Melissari) there are multimedia rooms for direct access to legal and economic magazines.
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