Filippo Valguarnera

Stockholm University | SU

Denna bok utgör en introduktion till den svenska rättsvetenskapens historia. Fokus ligger på den svenska rätts­vetenskapen i en västerländsk kontext. I boken behandlas därför den romerska rättsvetenskapens historia, den medeltida skolastiken, naturrätten samt rättspositivismens framväxt som rättsvetenskapens dominerande paradigm. Boken avslutas med...

This book celebrates the bicentiennial of Norstedts publishing house founding in 1823. The book deals with the following topics: Statute books (codes), preparatory works, commentaries, legal doctrine, the production of legal litterature and textbooks. Co-authors are: Richard Nordquist (Stockholm University), Bertil Bengtsson (Swedish Supreme Court...

The General Report introduces the research, discusses data provided by the national reporters, and draws some overarching conclusions. It is divided into five sections. The first section explores the recent resurgence of the commons in the works of legal scholars, particularly in Italy and the United States. The second section examines the methodol...

Sweden has a rich historical tradition concerning variegated aspects of the commons, including common usage of land and open access to private land to engage in outdoor activities. Moreover, the Swedish legal tradition features a notion of property that can be described as ideologically weaker than in most of the West, leading to an attitude toward...

Detta verk är avsett för undervisning i allmän rättslära och juridisk metodlära vid de juridiska fakulteterna. Boken är också av intresse för ”färdiga” jurister och samhällsvetare med teoretiska och idéhistoriska intressen. Även praktiker som önskar fördjupa sina kunskaper i rättstillämpningens principiella problem torde ha stort utbyte av verket....

The last quarter of a century has featured a surge in interest and studies on the commons, spearheaded, of course, by the efforts of Elinor Ostrom. These efforts have problematized the once well-established paradigm of the tragedy of the commons most clearly described by Garrett Hardin in 1968. One could say that the commons, thus, have become a fu...

Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past such areas were considered wastelands, whose value lay only in their potential for cultivation and economic exploitation. Today, these wilder...

A few mistakes found their way into the first edition of my book "Accesso alla natura tra ideologia e diritto", Torino, Giappichelli, 2010. They are listed here and have all been corrected in the second edition of the book, released in January 2014 (the second edition can be bought here: https://www.giappichelli.it/accesso-alla-natura-tra-ideologia...

In the last few years European legislators have shown an increasing interest in group litigation, stimulated by the political pressure coming from consumer associations, the public at large and the European Union. The European devices, however, are very different, with a few interesting exceptions, from the internationally most famous group action...