This article starts with the question of who publishes academic journals today, then briefly analyses how the range of such journals has changed during the last two decades. The article concludes that investment is necessary to support publishing initiatives of open access diamond journals carried out by members of the academic community in public universities.

The article highlights how public contracts are a crucial variable for the future of the government administration but at the same time represent a great challenge due to their complexity of the subject and the difficulty of in regulating them it in a simple yet effective way. The text article focuses on the many interests that the public administration has to consider when awarding contracts and how the new procurement Aact tries to combine a more streamlined discipline approach with the pursuit of the objectives of legality and transparency. The difficulty of achieving this goal can be seen is testified byin the recent experience of the UK legal system, which after Brexit is in the process of adopting a reform of public contract law that, despite the declared political intentions, still has many aspects in common with European and continental law.

Since the early years of the European Coal and Steel Community, the system of government of the Communities and then of the European Union has been comparable to a dual parliamentary system. The European Commission needs a relationship of trust with both the Council (or European Council) and the European Parliament. Neither the importance of the European Council nor that of the European Parliament should be underestimated if the Union’s main institutions are to function smoothly.

The article analyses the conditions of lawfulness of the processing of personal data applicable to public administration in the exercise of their functions, in light of European and national legislation. The contribution suggests that the Italian legislation may not be compatible with European law. The Italian approach is to authorise the processing and exchange of personal data between public authorities whenever necessary for the pursuit of institutional purposes. By contrast, EU law requires a criterion of proportionality between the processing of data and the public purposes pursued.

Section III of the Council of State, in an order of July 2023, states that article 9 of the Constitution, as amended, has effectively included the protection of animals among the so-called ‘supreme principles’; consequently, animal’s interests (and in particular their loss of life) can be affected only following a rigorous evaluation of the necessity and proportionality of the measure to be adopted, in particular when the human interest at stake is purely economic.

Starting from the issues related to the development of “robotics”, the paper explains how decision-making with AI poses problems across disciplines and law can provide the right coordinates to navigate the challenges. “Law” can be called upon to “justify, regulate, and direct the courses of action” when Artificial Intelligence is implemented as a decision-making instrument that impacts a variety of facets of individual coexistence.