Alessio Sardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5189846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessio Sardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessio |
| FAMILY NAME | Sardo |
| SIGNATURE | SARDO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1015-2641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The legitimacy of city networks in international multi-stakeholder governance
City networks have become consequential infrastructures of transnational urban governance, yet their institutional legitimacy remains under-theorised and under-measured. This article asks how they institutionalise legitimacy when public authority is redelegated by municipal and subnational governments rather than by sovereign states. We develop a framework centred on legality, accountability, legitimate membership and effectiveness, and examine i…
Ensuring Fairness in the Digital Marketplace
The paper explores the pressing challenges of misleading advertising in the digital ecosystem, specifically regarding influencer marketing. We propose a dual innovation: a theoretical one and a methodological one. Theoretically, we present a comparative analysis of the norms regulating misleading online advertising and influencer marketing considering three contexts with respective case studies: Italy, France, and the United States of America. Me…
Institutional path dependence in European short-term rental regulation
Spectral clustering of Berlin’s housing spatial network to capture locational effects on pricing
This study develops a hedonic pricing model to improve the estimation of locational effects by leveraging clustering algorithms. Specifically, we examine and compare the predictive accuracy of four models: a baseline specification without locational effects, a standard model with traditional administrative boundaries, one using constrained K means clustering, and another employing a constrained spectral clustering. Focusing on Berlin’s housing ma…
Scenario Analysis in Karlsruhe
This Article examines scenario analysis, a disruptive argumentation technique used by the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) in recent high-profile cases, such as the so-called climate protection case (Klimaschutz) and other decisions on the fundamental right to intergenerational justice (Grundrecht auf Generationengerechitgkeit). After explaining the basic argumentative steps involved in scenario analysis, for example designing scenarios…
The judicial response to rent controls in Europe
This essay examines, from a legal and economic perspective, the judicial response to rent controls in the EU focusing on three courts that operate at the fundamental rights and constitutional level: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfGE), and the Italian Constitutional Court. Based on an analysis of a sample of judicial decisions rendered over time, a convergent trend emerges: these Courts ha…
Categories, Balancing, and Fake News
Freedom of expression has been often described as a necessary precondition for democracy and for the implementation of an effective system of human rights. A deliberative democracy cannot function if citizens are not granted the fundamental right to express their views and to criticize the government without being censored. 1 The rule of law becomes an empty notion if legal orders do not protect the impartial, autonomous judgments of the judiciar…
Ekins on Groups and Procedures
Richard Ekins’s argument, developed in his The Nature of Legislative Intent, rests on four pillars: a socio-ontological conception based on a theory of how groups act; a theory of language use; an explanatory attempt, namely, a descriptive account of the nature of the legislative process; and, finally, a normative account of a legislature’s authority. In this paper, we will focus on Ekins’s socio-ontological perspective and argue that, though Eki…
Some Reflections on the Proof–based Theory of Legal Exceptions
In his 1949 essay, ‘The Ascription of Responsibility and Rights’, H. L. A. Hart first introduced the concept of defeasibility. Hart tried to characterise the role of exceptions in legal reasoning. In a nutshell, he considered that the conditions for the application of a legal concept, such as ‘contract’, ‘although necessary are not always sufficient’ for justifying a certain legal conclusion. The debate over defeasibility reached its peak in the …
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Some Reflections on the Proof–based Theory of Legal Exceptions
In his 1949 essay, ‘The Ascription of Responsibility and Rights’, H. L. A. Hart first introduced the concept of defeasibility. Hart tried to characterise the role of exceptions in legal reasoning. In a nutshell, he considered that the conditions for the application of a legal concept, such as ‘contract’, ‘although necessary are not always sufficient’ for justifying a certain legal conclusion. The debate over defeasibility reached its peak in the …
Ekins on Groups and Procedures
Richard Ekins’s argument, developed in his The Nature of Legislative Intent, rests on four pillars: a socio-ontological conception based on a theory of how groups act; a theory of language use; an explanatory attempt, namely, a descriptive account of the nature of the legislative process; and, finally, a normative account of a legislature’s authority. In this paper, we will focus on Ekins’s socio-ontological perspective and argue that, though Eki…
Categories, Balancing, and Fake News
Freedom of expression has been often described as a necessary precondition for democracy and for the implementation of an effective system of human rights. A deliberative democracy cannot function if citizens are not granted the fundamental right to express their views and to criticize the government without being censored. 1 The rule of law becomes an empty notion if legal orders do not protect the impartial, autonomous judgments of the judiciar…
Scenario Analysis in Karlsruhe
This Article examines scenario analysis, a disruptive argumentation technique used by the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) in recent high-profile cases, such as the so-called climate protection case (Klimaschutz) and other decisions on the fundamental right to intergenerational justice (Grundrecht auf Generationengerechitgkeit). After explaining the basic argumentative steps involved in scenario analysis, for example designing scenarios…
The judicial response to rent controls in Europe
This essay examines, from a legal and economic perspective, the judicial response to rent controls in the EU focusing on three courts that operate at the fundamental rights and constitutional level: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfGE), and the Italian Constitutional Court. Based on an analysis of a sample of judicial decisions rendered over time, a convergent trend emerges: these Courts ha…
The legitimacy of city networks in international multi-stakeholder governance
City networks have become consequential infrastructures of transnational urban governance, yet their institutional legitimacy remains under-theorised and under-measured. This article asks how they institutionalise legitimacy when public authority is redelegated by municipal and subnational governments rather than by sovereign states. We develop a framework centred on legality, accountability, legitimate membership and effectiveness, and examine i…
Ensuring Fairness in the Digital Marketplace
The paper explores the pressing challenges of misleading advertising in the digital ecosystem, specifically regarding influencer marketing. We propose a dual innovation: a theoretical one and a methodological one. Theoretically, we present a comparative analysis of the norms regulating misleading online advertising and influencer marketing considering three contexts with respective case studies: Italy, France, and the United States of America. Me…
Institutional path dependence in European short-term rental regulation
Spectral clustering of Berlin’s housing spatial network to capture locational effects on pricing
This study develops a hedonic pricing model to improve the estimation of locational effects by leveraging clustering algorithms. Specifically, we examine and compare the predictive accuracy of four models: a baseline specification without locational effects, a standard model with traditional administrative boundaries, one using constrained K means clustering, and another employing a constrained spectral clustering. Focusing on Berlin’s housing ma…
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