On March 17, Italians began voting in a confirmatory constitutional referendum on a sweeping judicial overhaul — the so-called “Nordio Reform” — advanced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition government and framed publicly as a technical modernization of the judiciary. The reform would separate the career tracks of judges and prosecutors, split the High Council …
Manzi, Lucia. Judicial Populism and Corruption Prosecutions in the Mani Pulite Operation. Law & Social Inquiry (2024). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation. This article develops a new analytical framework for understanding the success of Italy’s Mani Pulite (Clean Hands) anti-corruption operation by showing how prosecutors relied on a …
This article analyzes the ethical dilemmas faced by Italian lawyers during World War II, focusing on their roles in Fascist society, their responses to Mussolini’s 1938 race laws, and their involvement in addressing the treatment of Jews in Italy, drawing on legal histories and survivor narratives.