What is Ravel
Ravel is a repository of documents on the law and practice concerning the international protection of adults.
The purpose of Ravel is to provide scholars and practitioners with legal information on the international protection of adults who are not in a position to protect their interests because of an impairment or insufficiency of their personal faculties. The repository is meant to covers the rules of private international law in this field, domestic and international, as well as the universal and regional instruments that enshrine the fundamental rights of those concerned, and the domestic rules that govern adults’ protection, both substantively and procedurally.
The name of the repository is a tribute to French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). He suffered for several years from a neurodegenerative disease of uncertain origin, which resulted, among other things, in aphasia, apraxia and memory losses.
Ravel was originally set up in 2020 as a project run by the Institute of International Studies of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (scientific coordinator Pietro Franzina; content manager Lorenzo Acconciamessa). It is now part of the work carried out by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Research Unit within the project Enhancing the autonomy of vulnerable adults in legal matters.
Scholars and practitioners are encouraged to inform the project team of relevant developments, such as new rulings and new publications, and to signal inaccuracies and gaps.
To get in touch with the project team, please write an e-mail to pietro.franzina@unicatt.it.
The architecture of Ravel
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