Intellectual Property and General Legal Principles: Is IP a Lex Specialis?

Physical Activities-Legal Horizon and Sports Regulation as Lex Specialis: Lex Sportiva

The physical movement and the athletic movement and, furthermore, the whole of the physical activity, are distinct from other activities due to the organization on the basis of which it is practiced, to the way it is conducted and implemented and to the objectives which it involves. The legal entities in general and the ones of the sports sector in particular have been constituted so as to cove...

Teaching of Intellectual Property: Principles and Methods

Is Intellectual Property Theft?

Intellectual property reform for genetically modified crops: a legal imperative.

Standards and intellectual property rights: an economic and legal perspective

The authors are concerned with the reconciliation of private rights that intellectual property rights (IPRs) represent with the public benefit deriving from properly developed technical standards. One of the key difficulties in achieving this aim is that IPRs are increasingly perceived as conflicting with other norms; in particular, the relationship between intellectual property law and competi...