Diritto e Mercato

The purpose of this contribution is to examine the relationship between law and market from a cross-cutting legal perspective. The Authors, after summarising the evolution of this relationship over time, in particular, try to highlight how the logic of the market have determined a process of ‘functionalization’ of the law, according to which the law seems to comply with the with the way the market works and not vice-versa. In this process, the contribution of soft law, as well as new criteria and types of standardization play a key role, which, due to their greater flexibility, seem more suitable to meet the needs of the market, replacing traditional regulatory tools of hard law

The English Crown and the Election of Pope John XXII

This article investigates the involvement of Edward II in the negotiations that led to John XXII's election on 7 August 1316 after a two-year papal vacancy between 1314 and 1316. The main source for this analysis is a dossier of sixteen diplomatic documents, found among the Chancery records in The National Archives in London. The article concludes that Edward II tried to exploit the papal vacancy as a means to re-establish his international profile and seek support abroad in order to face opposition at home, thus ensuring a place for the English Crown within the European political milieu

Plastic Waste Handling and its Influence on Household Waste Incineration : A forward looking study for theCounty of Stockholm

This study, aiming to support the future decision-making, presents a model that tries to evaluate the effects of different combinations of likely future changes in the mixed waste generation and of conservative or innovative organisations of the plastic waste handling in the County of Stockholm in the year 2030. The criteria chosen for the evaluation are the energy generated (heat to be used in the district heating network and electricity) from the incineration of plastic waste (which represents nowadays the predominant treatment option for the plastic waste generated in the County of Stockholm) and the amount of virgin raw materials (fossil fuels) needed for the replacement of the plastics not successfully recycled. The results show the importance of the harmonization among the plastic waste composition, the waste collection system and the recycling processes in order to reach a more sustainable configuration of the system. However the uncertainty of some input data hinders a neat evaluation relatively to the selected scenarios