Reclutamento universitario e dintorni: tempi difficile, scelte tragiche, incubi giuridici

The article examines the new rules on the recruitment of University’s professors, the evaluation system of their research (called product’s evaluation) and the most recent trends in the Italian legal system on this field. The paper highlights, on the one hand, the architectural lacks in the recruitment and evaluation mechanisms, as built by the legislative, which are exasperated by the way in which the rules are concretely applied; on the other hand, and above all, the continuous incursion of politics into the academic dimension, with the consequent risk of an injury to constitutional values such as the freedom of research activity and the autonomy of academic staff