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Secondary Boycotts And Ally Doctrine In The U.S. Law Of Strikes, Jacopo Busnach Ravenna
Secondary Boycotts And Ally Doctrine In The U.S. Law Of Strikes, Jacopo Busnach Ravenna
Bocconi Legal Papers
The paper aims to schematically illustrate the legal genesis of the concept of secondary boycott in U.S. statutory law and its application in the relevant case law. For this purpose, a brief overview of the historical origin of the right to strike is provided, along with the analysis of the evolutionary process which led to its inclusion in the Constitutional Charts of many European countries. This introduction is followed by a description of the legislative steps towards the enactment of the Wagner Act (1935), as amended by the Taft-Hartley Act (1947), and of the Landrum-Griffin Act (1959), especially focusing on …
Law & Globalization, Giovanni Iudica
Law & Globalization, Giovanni Iudica
Bocconi Legal Papers
This article explores the position of law vis-à-vis the complex phenomenon of globalization. It begins by defining globalization as the change brought about by the onset of market economy and by the technological revolution of the twentieth century. The article goes on to sketch a short history of the institutions which globalization has had the greatest destabilizing impact on: the national State and—for civil law jurisdictions—codifications. The declining role of States (and their codes) is then presented as the main reason for the enhanced importance of lex mercatoria in regulating international exchanges. This change translates, in practice, in the increased …