“The Second Intesa. Forty Years of the State-Adventist Church Agreement”

On 29 October 2026, Villa Ruspoli in Florence hosts the conference “The Second Intesa. Forty Years of the State-Adventist Church Agreement”, promoted by the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence in partnership with the Istituto Universitario Avventista, AIDLR and DiReSoM. Scholars of law and religion will examine the history and the application of the Adventist intesa, alongside representatives of eleven religious and non-religious communities, from the Archdiocese of Florence to UAAR.

Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v. Italy: DiReSoM Webinar Recording and Transcript

The recording of the DiReSoM webinar “ECtHR, Sect. I, 11 June 2026, Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v. Italy. First Reflections”, held online on 9 July 2026, is now available: link to recording.

The webinar offered a first analysis of the judgment issued by the First Section of the European Court of Human Rights on 11 June 2026 in the case of the Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses against Italy. After an introduction by Marco Croce, Pasquale Annicchino and the others collegues discussed the decision and its implications, with closing remarks by Pierluigi Consorti.

Together with the recording, we are making available the transcript of the webinar in English.
The original discussion was held in Italian, and the transcript has been translated for this purpose.*

Transcript: ITA – ENG

We thank the speakers and everyone who joined the live session, and we hope this material will be useful to scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in the relationship between law and religion in contemporary Europe.


* The English transcript was produced through automatic translation with the assistance of AI tools. Readers seeking precise quotation should refer to the original Italian recording.