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dc.contributor.authorAPERIO BELLA, Flaminia
dc.contributor.authorLAURI, Cristiana
dc.contributor.authorCAPRA, Giorgio
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-07T11:49:21Z
dc.date.available2022-02-07T11:49:21Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of risk regulation, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 93-110en
dc.identifier.issn1867-299X
dc.identifier.issn2190-8249
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73972
dc.descriptionPublished online: 09 February 2021en
dc.description.abstractThis article considers the role of non-binding legal instruments adopted in Italy against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the early months of 2020. To verify whether the use of such instruments restricted fundamental and human rights beyond constitutional and legal limits, the article first gives an overview of hard law measures adopted in Italy against the coronavirus. It then focuses on soft law measures, the use of which became significant only in Phase II of Italy's response to COVID-19 and argues that non-binding legal instruments provided the public with instructions on gradually returning to normal life. This contribution contains case studies on the soft law measures adopted in relation to private economic enterprise and freedom of worship. Italian soft law deployed during the COVID-19 epidemic was borne out of coordination between the state and the Regions and as the result of (even informal) dialogue with the relevant stakeholders. Despite some criticism of the soft law measures used, their role in restricting constitutionally granted rights was marginal, because only hard law measures adopted nationally and locally limited personal rights and freedoms in order to contain the pandemic.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of risk regulationen
dc.titleThe role of soft law measures in Italy : much ado about nothing?en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/err.2020.116
dc.identifier.volume12en
dc.identifier.startpage93en
dc.identifier.endpage110en
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