7 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 2 (2021)
‘Offers They Can’t Refuse’: Assessing the Impact on Business and Society At-Large of the Recent Fortune of Anti-Discrimination Laws and Policies
by Riccardo de Caria The article considers the relationship and balance between freedom of economic initiative and obligations deriving from anti-discrimination laws. After providing a theoretical framework for the problem of the limits to contractual autonomy arising from the horizontal application of fundamental rights (Drittwirkung), the work focuses on its most recent developments, especially in relation to case law, from a comparative perspective. It identifies the paradoxes and logical inconsistencies that characterise traditional approaches and puts forward an alternative conceptual framework. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156
