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This volume brings together the revised and peer reviewed scientific contributions presented at the 5th Conference on Comparative and International Law (27 June 2025), jointly organized by the Law Center of the Catholic University of Petrópolis (Brazil) and the Society of Juridical and Administrative Sciences. The book explores the intersections between law, ethics, and human vulnerability through a transnational and comparative lens, addressing some of the most pressing challenges of our time: technological risks, equality and responsibility in evolving legal frameworks, and the pursuit of justice in the fields of human rights and international criminal law. The volume is structured into three thematic parts: (1) Technology, Risks and Global Governance – examining how global administrative law, artificial intelligence, and medical innovations such as xenotransplantation generate both opportunities and existential risks, thereby calling for renewed forms of international regulation and ethical responsibility. (2) Responsibility, Equality and Comparative Legal Perspectives – engaging with philosophical and legal perspectives on responsibility, analysing authority and social hierarchies within civil law traditions, and evaluating the principle of equal opportunities between women and men in electoral law from comparative angles. (3) Justice, Human Rights and International Criminal Law – addressing forgotten or ongoing struggles for justice, the contested authority of the International Criminal Court, and the strengths and limitations of climate change litigation as a mechanism for advancing environmental justice. The central theme of the book is how legal and governance frameworks can address human vulnerability in a rapidly changing global context, where ethical dilemmas, technological disruptions, and structural inequalities converge. Its relevance lies in its ability to connect theoretical insights (legal philosophy, comparative analysis, ethics) with practical challenges (international justice, technological governance, gender equality), thereby offering both critical reflection and policy oriented perspectives. The volume aims to contribute to addressing the tension between global responsibility and local governance by providing comparative knowledge and highlighting pathways toward more equitable and accountable systems of law and regulation. The target readership includes academics, researchers, PhD candidates, practitioners in international and comparative law, and policymakers interested in the evolving interplay of ethics, vulnerability, and governance in shaping law’s response to contemporary global challenges.

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Cătălin-Silviu Săraru is professor habilitated at the Faculty of Law, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, where he specializes in administrative law and comparative public law. He is an associate member of the Academy of Scientists in Romania, Head of the Doctoral School of Law at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, arbitrator at the Vienna International Arbitral Centre Court (VIAC), President of the Society of Juridical and Administrative Sciences and member in Société de législation comparée, Research Network on EU Ad-ministrative Law (ReNEUAL). Moreover, he is organizer of numerous international conferences as well as editor and author of numereous books, chapters and journal articles. Cristina Elena Popa Tache is dean of the Faculty of Law and International Governance, Danubius International University, visiting academic researcher at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and a renowned editor with extensive expertise in international law, international investment law, communication law, and emerging technologies. Currently, Cristina serves as co-convenor of the International Business and Human Rights Interest Group within the European Society of International Law, ESIL DAB advisor and is an active member of the ISDS Academic Forum. She is also the President of the International Institute for the Analysis of Legal and Administrative Mutations, an organisation promoting transdisciplinary approaches in law and social sciences, and Vice Secretary-General & researcher of CIRET Paris - Center International de Recherches et Études Transdisciplinaires and and director of the CIRET Observatory of Law and Transdisciplinarity. At the same time, she carries out an intense scientific research activity in the field of international law, as well as a publishing and editing activity, being the author of more than 100 legal publications. Federica Cristani is a senior researcher and the head of the Centre for International Law at the Institute of International Relations Prague. She holds a PhD (with the certificate of Doctor Europaeus) in international law and a degree in law from the University of Verona. Currently, she is also leading a research team within the framework of the Horizon Europe HRJust project (States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification: a study in civil society engagement and human rights through the lens of gender and intersectionality), where she has co-founded and is co-directing the Intersect Observatory. She is also an external member of the University Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies at the Department of Public International Law of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. She earlier worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, and at the University of Verona, and has been a visiting scholar in different universities and research centres in Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom and USA. She has been adjunct professor in Bologna and a guest lecturer in Budapest, Bratislava and Kharkiv. Since February 2021, she is visiting senior researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. Her main research interests include international economic law, the policies of sub-regional groups in Europe and international law of cyberspace. She has been also a Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and since December 2022 she has been enlisted in the CEI List of Individual External Experts to Assist the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) for the SO2 Strategic Objective 2.1 (Current cyberse-curity policy frameworks). Federica is the author of numerous publications.

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