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A. PEPERZAK, "Autoconoscenza dell'assoluto. Lineamenti della filosofia dello spirito hegeliana"Filosofia Oggi 12 (3/4): 573. 1989.
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409The Hierarchical Model and H. L. A. Hart's Concept of LawRevus 21 141-161. 2013.Law is traditionally related to the practice of command and hierarchy. It seems that a legal rule should immediately establish a relation between a superior and an inferior. This hierarchical and authoritharian view might however be challenged once the phenomenology of the rule is considered from the internal point of view, that is, from the stance of those that can be said to “use” rather than to “suffer” the rules themselves. A practice oriented approach could in this way open up a more libera…Read more
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41Institutionalism Old and NewRatio Juris 6 (2): 190-201. 1993.The author deals with the legal theoretical approach that has been labelled “legal institutionalism.” An old and a new version of this approach are singled out: The old one is identified with the theory defended by the Italian public lawyer Santi Romano in the first half of this century; the second one is seen in the recent work by Ota Weinberger and Neil MacCormick. After a short presentation of Romano's work, his ideas and the development proposed by MacCormick and Weinberger are compared. Sim…Read more
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26Democracy and Tensions. Representation, Majority Rule, Fundamental RightsRatio Juris 8 (3): 373-396. 1995.
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39On Two Distinct and Opposing Versions of Natural Law: "Exclusive" versus "Inclusive"Ratio Juris 19 (2): 197-216. 2006.This paper takes the dichotomy between “exclusive” and “inclusive” positivism and applies it by analogy to natural-law theories. With John Finnis, and with Beyleved and Brownsword, we have examples of “exclusive natural-law theory,” on which approach the law is valid only if its content satisfies a normative monological moral theory. The discourse theories of Alexy and Habermas are seen instead as “inclusive natural-law theories,” in which the positive law is a constitutive moment in that it ide…Read more
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46Global Citizenship? Political Rights under Imperial ConditionsRatio Juris 18 (2): 236-257. 2005.
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Diritto, Potere, Dominio Argomenti Per Una Teoria Non Prescrittivistica Del DirittoEuropean University Institute. 1992.
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18A flag in the Wind. In memoriam Professor Sir Donald Neil MacCormick (1941-2009)Rechtstheorie 41 (2): 277-284. 2010.
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Nostalgia for the homogeneous community: Karl Larenz and the national socialist theory of contractRechtstheorie 30 (2): 179-226. 1999.
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24Hannah Arendt and the Concept of Law. Against the TraditionArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 99 (3): 400-416. 2013.A permanent approach to what law is has been that of interpreting it in terms of repression or reduction of chances or courses of conduct. This approach, however, is not able to render justice to fundamental moments of the legal practice, beginning with constitutional law and its empowering rules. Nonetheless, the mainstream in the philosophy of law and in the legal theory has not at all been worried about this strange inadequacy of imperativism to offer a complete view of legal practice and leg…Read more
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Democracy and Tensions Representation, Majority Principle, Fundamental RightsEuropean University Institute. 1994.
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131Theories of Legal Argumentation and Concepts of Law. An ApproximationRatio Juris 15 (4): 377-402. 2002.This article provides an assessment of the merits of recent theories of legal reasoning. After a quick historical aperçu a number of models of legal argumentation are presented and discussed, with an eye to their mutual connection. An initial conclusion is that universalizability and discursivity are the common features of those models. The focal question dealt with, however, is that of the impact of the argumentative paradigms of adjudication on the very concept of law. Here the contention is t…Read more
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4Rules, Institutions, Transformations: Considerations on the "Evolution of Law" ParadigmEuropean University Institute. 1995.Recoge: 1.Conceps of law. A Proposal -- 2.Evolutionary concepts -- 3.Neo-evolutionary theories -- 4.Evolution as learning -- 5.Law as autopoiesis -- 6.Towards a critique of the "Evolution of law" paradigm.
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La teoria del diritto soggettivo nel primo KelsenRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 66 (1): 58-94. 1989.
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4Frei seinArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 92 (2): 164-194. 2006.This is an attempt to conceptualize freedom beyond the now traditional opposition beetween a negative and a positive notion. To this purpose several weaknesses of the idea of negative freedom are pointed out and taken into account, while positive freedom is reinterpreted in terms of a social capacity, without reference however to romantic self-affirmation. Freeedom is thus seen connected with the question of power and authority, whose main theories are then shortly assessed. Among these the so-c…Read more
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3A National-socialist Jurist on Crime and Punishment: Karl Larenz and the So-called 'Deutsche Rechtserneuerung'European University Institute. 1992.
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326Le modèle hiérarchique et le Concept de droit de HartRevus 21 117-139. 2013.Le droit est traditionnellement lié à la pratique du commandement et de la hiérarchie. Il semble qu’une règle juridique établisse une immédiate relation entre une norme supérieure et une norme inférieure. La conception hiérarchique et impérative peut néanmoins être remise en cause dès lors que la phénoménologie de la règle juridique est appréhendée d’un point de vue interne, celui de ceux que l’on peut considérer comme les « utilisateurs » de la règle plutôt que ceux qui la subissent. Une approc…Read more
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University of HullRegular Faculty
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Philosophy of Law |