International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development - Lees

Dottorati
Doctoral programme (PhD)
A.Y. 2025/2026
Study area
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Doctoral programme (PhD)
3
Years
Dipartimento di Diritto pubblico italiano e sovranazionale - Via Festa del Perdono 7 - 20122 Milano
Language
English
PhD Coordinator
Nonostante l'urgenza degli Obiettivi dello Sviluppo Sostenibile recepiti dall'agenda ONU 2030, attori tra i più influenti disconoscono la loro responsabilità di contribuirvi. L'enormità del problema giustifica un programma di ricerca sulle istituzioni per la sostenibilità, in cooperazione tra diritto, etica ed economia - cui il dottorato LEES è dedicato. Il diritto definisce i limiti di rule of law al bilanciamento politico tra diritti fondamentali e stabilità economica e indica l'intollerabilità di fenomeni di emarginazione e disuguaglianza. Occorrono però nuove idee di giustizia che, ridefinendo il benessere sociale, concepiscano la giustizia distributiva sia in chiave inter-generazionale che intra-generazionale. Indagini comparative e de jure condendo, disegneranno istituzioni multi-livello per lo sviluppo sostenibile, revocando in dubbio che varie istituzioni private siano al riparo da richieste di giustizia sociale quali l'accesso all'innovazione, la distribuzione dei diritti di decisione tra stakeholder nell'impresa, l'autogoverno democratico dei beni comuni. La strategic litigation sarà studiata per promuovere dentro e fuori le corti il cambiamento istituzionale e il rispetto dei diritti umani. L'analisi economica permetterà di verificare se il cambiamento istituzionale trovi sostegno in modelli di scelta collettiva razionale e se corrisponda, anche grazie alla plasticità delle preferenze, all'emergere di equilibri strategici che inducono conformità (norme sociali).
Classi di laurea magistrale - Classes of master's degree:
LMG/01 Classe delle lauree magistrali in giurisprudenza
LM-1 Antropologia culturale ed etnologia
LM-16 Finanza
LM-48 Pianificazione territoriale urbanistica e ambientale
LM-49 Progettazione e gestione dei sistemi turistici
LM-50 Programmazione e gestione dei servizi educativi
LM-51 Psicologia
LM-52 Relazioni internazionali
LM-55 Scienze cognitive
LM-56 Scienze dell'economia
LM-59 Scienze della comunicazione pubblica, d'impresa e pubblicità
LM-62 Scienze della politica
LM-63 Scienze delle pubbliche amministrazioni
LM-64 Scienze delle religioni
LM-69 Scienze e tecnologie agrarie
LM-70 Scienze e tecnologie alimentari
LM-73 Scienze e tecnologie forestali ed ambientali
LM-75 Scienze e tecnologie per l'ambiente e il territorio
LM-76 Scienze economiche per l'ambiente e la cultura
LM-77 Scienze economico-aziendali
LM-78 Scienze filosofiche
LM-81 Scienze per la cooperazione allo sviluppo
LM-84 Scienze storiche
LM-87 Servizio sociale e politiche sociali
LM-88 Sociologia e ricerca sociale
LM-90 Studi europei
LM-92 Teorie della comunicazione
LM/SC-GIUR Scienze Giuridiche
LMG/01 GIURISPRUDENZA)
Dipartimento di Diritto pubblico italiano e sovranazionale - Via Festa del Perdono 7 - 20122 Milano
Title Professor(s)
Rethinking legal, ethical and economic approaches to sustainability: 1.1 Dimensions and dynamics of inequalities as well as their driving forces 1.2. The impact of environmental issues on international inequalities 1.3. Social rights and social inequalities 1.4. Age, ethnic, racial, gender and religious discriminations 1.5. Fighting growing inequalities: pre-distribution in place of re-distribution 1.6. The impact of financial markets and international monetary bodies on state democracy
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
E. Chiappero (Università di Pavia)
G. Grimalda (Researcher University of Passau)
Social justice, global and inter/intra-generational justice and access to justice: 2.1. Global Constitutional Law 2.2. Non-state non-judicial grievance mechanisms: the compatibility of internal complaints processes within businesses with international human rights law 2.3. The right to an effective remedy 2.4. Negotiation and Mediation 2.5. Addressing the Risks of Inequality of Arms and Power Imbalance 2.6. Environmental Justice 2.7. Inter-generational and intra-generational justice and new forms of constitutional balance among fundamental rights 2.8. Group Rights and Culture
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
C. Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
S. Dothan (University of Copenaghen)
New perspectives in the theories of justice: 3.1. New methods in the theory of justice; behavioural and experimental justice and their meaning for the realism of justice 3.2. What is the subject matter of justice? Distribution of welfare, resources, capabilities and functioning, autonomy, responsibility or consideration? 3.3. Their measurement as bases for social choice, constitutional and post-Constitutional contracts; the rank of principles such as equality, needs, merits and contribution 3.4. Multidimensional discrimination: sociology, law and economics
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
C. Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
E. Chiappero (Università di Pavia)
P. Frances-Gomez (University of Granada)
S. Dothan (University of Copenaghen
Shared social responsibility for justice: 4.1. Theories of shared intentions, conjoint action, deliberation, agreements and we thinking 4.2. The (economic psychology) cognitive dimension of joint action: framing and belief formation, reasoning and mutual simulations of minds 4.3. Multilevel forms of governance for implementing shared responsibility 4.4. CSR for gender equality policies and the effect on fertility 4.5. Models of multi-stakeholder participation in the implementation and monitoring of resilience and recovery plans
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
C. Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
Institutional and non-institutional actors in the sustainability network: 5.1. HRs compliance and transparency in international organizations 5.2. Transnational Crimes as Obstacle to Sustainability 5.3. The role of national promotional banks or institutions and private economic agents (corporations and others) in supporting Sustainable Development 5.4. The role of NGOs, non-profit organizations and civil society in supporting sustainable development 5.5. Models of stakeholder corporate governance for Socially responsible and Sustainable Corporations 5.6. New Forms of Ecological Corporate Governance 5.7. Public-Private partnership for global health 5.8. Federalism and sustainability politics 5.9. Urban regeneration and inequalities 5.10 Deliberative Democracy, Behaviour and Climate Change
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
S. Dothan (University of Copenaghen)
Environmental issues: 6.1. Ecology, Technology and Private Law 6.2. The Economics of International Environmental Agreements in the Quest of Sustainability 6.3. Implications of behavioural environmental law and economics 6.4. Fairness, Stability and Weakness of Private Incentives for International Environmental Agreements. 6.5. Sustainable Oceans 6.6. Climate Change, Sustainability and Human Rights 6.7. Corporate responsibility for climate change 6.8. Environmental protection within international investment and trade 6.9. Green procurement in the EU context 6.10. Space law and its impact on environmental issue
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
M. Khadjavi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
P. Frances Gomez (University of Granada)
Political economy and public choice for sustainable development: 7.1. Democracy in the face of globalization, the role of nation States and international institutions 7.2. Science and Sustainable Development 7.3. Populism VS deliberation and the quest for self-determination 7.4. The constitutional political economy of sustainable development 7.5. Accountability and rule of law concerns as indispensable features of democracy and Sustainable Development 7.6. Sustainable development and economic democracy: pre-distributive strategies to prevent inequalities in the context of change generated by the ecological and digital transition of the economy
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
E. Chiappero (Università di Pavia)
G. Grimalda (Researcher University of Passau)
S. Hargreaves Heap (King's College London)
Science and Sustainable Development: 8.1. Scientific Controversies on Health Issues 8.2. STS (Science and Technology Studies) 8.3. Organizational Theory of Accidents 8.4. Collective and Organizational Responsibility 8.5. Ethnopragmatics 8.6 Language, Interaction and Society
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
J. Handrlica (Charles University - Prague)
G. Kalflèche (University Toulouse Capitole)
L. Milligan (Lousville University)
The Role of Public Administration in Enhancing Sustainable Development: 9.1. Public Administration and Sustainable Development 9.2. Social dinamics and the role Public Administration 9.3. Government and Governance: organisation and administrative procedure as a tool for enhancing Sustainable Development
Curriculum: Sustainable Development
J. Handrlica (Charles University - Prague)
G. Kalflèche (University Toulouse Capitole)
L. Milligan (Lousville University)
Institutions and governance of the commons: 10.1. “Common pool resources” and their governance 10.2. Institutional models of self-governance for physical and knowledge infrastructures for the commons 10.3. Public health as a public good 10.4. Cultural and intellectual commons 10.5. The protection of knowledge commons from commodification 10.6. The tragedy of the commons and the role of Public Administration
Curriculum: Human Rights and Strategic Litigation
S. Hargreaves Heap (King's College London)
M. Khadjavi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Social norms and sustainability: 11.1. Social norms and sustainable development 11.2. Collective choice and cognitive mechanism activating agreement and conformity to social norms 11.3. Game theoretical models of social norms emergence, selection and conformity 11.4. Social norm changes and EU Green Deal policies
Curriculum: Human Rights and Strategic Litigation
C. Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
G. Grimalda (Researcher University of Passau)
S. Hargreaves Heap (King's College London
P. Frances-Gomez (University of Granada)
S. Dothan (University of Copenaghen)
Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: 12.1. Business and Human Rights 12.2. The role Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and/or Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) in stimulating Sustainable Development 12.3. Stakeholder vs. shareholder models of corporate governance for socially responsible and sustainable corporations 12.4. Instrumental vs constitutive view of corporate responsibility, the social contract of the firm amongst its stakeholders as a bargaining game and the redefinition of the “social interest” 12.5. Classical, evolutionary and behavioural game models for the explanation of the emergence and stability of sustainable collective mental models (frames) of corporate governance 12.6. Mandatory law, soft law and self-regulation through charters, bylaw, code of ethics, and management standards for sustainability 12.7. Corporate responsibility to respect human rights and access to justice for victims of corporate human rights violations 12.8 Economic democracy, Inequalities and Corporate Governance
Curriculum: Human Rights and Strategic Litigation
S. De Colle (IESEG School of business France)
P. Frances-Gomez (University of Granada)
Innovation technologies and sustainability: 13.1. Global privacy and cybersecurity 13.2. The Digital Commons 13.3. Legal issues related to the use of Big Data and AI 13.4. Technological innovations: new rights and their impact on the principle of equality and non- discrimination 13.5. The Smart Contracts 13.6. The emergence of global ‘data economy’ and the incidence on democratic regimes 13.7. For a sustainable taxation of the digitalised economy: targeted or system-wide reform 13.8. Public Administration and the “digital transition”: tools, goals, problems and prospects
Curriculum: Human Rights and Strategic Litigation
S. De Colle (IESEG School of business France)
P. Frances-Gomez (University if Granada)
Human rights and strategic litigation: 14.1. Human rights between universal value and local implementation 14.2. Strategic Litigation networks’ structure, methodology and effectiveness 14.3. Impacts of Strategic Litigation on Court’s reasoning and judgements 14.4. Strategic Litigation and social justice: Public ethics, public reasoning and the justification of strategic litigation objectives 14.5. Strategic litigation and collective choices mechanisms 14.6. Strategic litigation for inclusive societies: gender equality, LGBTQ+I rights, rights of persons with disabilities
Curriculum: Human Rights and Strategic Litigation
C. Nardocci
S. Dothan (University of Copenaghen)

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