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Principles, balancing, and the separation between law and morals: on neo-constitutionalism and its critics
2011
En el ensayo Constitucionalismo principialista y constitucionalismo garantista, Luigi Ferrajoli ofrece una oportuna clarificación teórica y conceptual sobre el así llamado neoconstitucionalismo. Por mi parte, en esta contribución intentaré desarrollar algunas observaciones sobre tres puntos acerca de los cuales me encuentro en relativo desacuerdo con el análisis de Ferrajoli: el tratamiento de la distinción entre reglas y principios, la interpretación de la práctica de la ponderación, y el problema de la separación entre Derecho y moral. Además, ofreceré un panorama de los significados del (neo)constitucionalismo, y, respecto a tal panorama, consideraré el modo en el cual Ferrajoli sitúa su…
Rules, Conventionalism and Normativity: Some Remarks Starting from Hart
2014
The paper deals with the “conventionalist turn” in legal positivism in relation to the matter of the duty to obey the law and legal normativity. In this respect, conventionalist legal positivism is worth considering (a) because it offers an explanation of legal normativity partly different vis-a-vis previous ones and (b) because it tries to preserve the autonomy of legal obligation from moral obligation and coercion, respectively. Here I will only focus on legal conventionalism as sketched out by Hart in the Postscript. Indeed, Hart’s conventionalism comes up against problems which to some extent also affect other distinguished versions of legal conventionalism like, for example, those work…
Introduzione. Le cliniche legali: una prospettiva filosofico-giuridica
2019
Does a clinical legal approach tell us something interesting about the nature and the concept of law? This is the main question that this focus will try to answer in affirmative terms. This is a question of legal epistemology that seems not to be so interesting for clinical jurists. Indeed, clinical jurists above all emphasize the importance of legal clinics from the viewpoint of education and social justice, but neglect the contribution that a clinical legal method can offer with respect to the knowledge of law. The papers included in this focus face, from a legal philosophical perspective, each in its own way, the phenomenon of legal clinic approach, which it is spreading in Italy since a…
Positivism, Legal Validity, and the Separation of Law and Morals
2014
The essay discusses the import of the separability thesis both for legal positivism and for contemporary legal practice. First, the place of the separability thesis in legal positivism will be explored, distinguishing between “standard positivism” and “post-Hartian positivism.” Then I will consider various kinds of relations between law and morality that are worthy of jurisprudential interest, and explore, from a positivist point of view, what kind of relations between law and morality must be rejected, what kind of such relations should be taken into account, and what kind of such relations are indeed of no import at all. The upshot of this analysis consists in highlighting the distinction…
Volpi e ricci, ovvero: che cosa rimane del positivismo giuridico?
2017
Sino alla prima metà del xx secolo tutti i principali giuspositivisti condividevano l’idea che il positivismo giuridico presupponesse necessariamente una meta-etica soggettivista e non-cognitivista. Il legame tra una meta-etica soggettivista e non-cognitivista e il positivismo giuridico ad un certo punto è stato reciso. Importanti giuspositivisti cominciano a mettere in discussione che il positivismo giuridico implichi una determinata prospettiva meta-etica. In questo saggio avanzo tre obiezioni al positivismo giuridico da cui che il positivismo giuridico può almeno in parte difendersi solo a condizione di rimanere fedele al soggettivismo e al non-cognitivismo Until the middle of the last c…
Recensione di Barbari Luca, De Vanna Francesco (a cura di), Il “diritto al viaggio”. Abbecedario delle migrazioni, Giappichelli, Torino, 2018, pp. XI…
2019
Il libro che qui si commenta propone una tesi condivisa – esiste un diritto a migrare quando le condizioni di vita del proprio paese siano, per qualsiasi ragione, intollerabili – e presenta uno stile omogeneo – articoli brevi, tesi espresse attraverso un linguaggio piano e scevro da tecnicismi superflui, taglio interdisciplinare – e per alcuni presupposti di fondo che sono puntualmente esplicitati nella prefazione di Luca Barbari.
Ciò che è vivo del positivismo giuridico
2021
In his latest book Massimo La Torre makes a number of criticisms to legal positivism. Most of them are convincing. In this essay I try to reply to the few I disagree with. In particular, I deal with La Torre’s objections against Hart’s theories on legal interpretation and the internal point of view and against Raz’s theory of legitimate authority. In the last paragraph I outline some ideological reasons for not considering legal positivism entirely dead.
Vulnerabilità, concetto di diritto e approccio clinico-legale
2019
Does a clinical legal approach tell us something interesting about the nature and the concept of law? Is it possible to re-think the relationship between law and morals starting from the legal clinics experience? Is the juxtaposition between doctors and jurists convincing? These are the main questions that will be addressed here. They are questions concerning legal epistemology and legal philosophy in the strict sense that seems not to be so interesting for clinical jurists. Indeed, clinical jurists above all emphasize the importance of legal clinics from the viewpoint of education and social justice, but neglect the contribution that a clinical legal method can offer with respect to the kn…