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    Concerned over the growing power of international courts and adjudicative bodies, this essay analyzes how this particular source of law is moving the international order toward a teleocratic governance and away from a rule of law. The author finds in Oakeshott’s distinctions between teleocratic and nomocratic states and between a politics of faith and a politics of skepticism a way to help us unpack this growing shift toward an international order that is envisioned as an enterprise for reshapin…Read more
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    The essay tries to answer one of the most controversial questions on Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy: Was he a theorist of conservative or of liberalism à la Mises, Hayek etc.? The author's answer goes beyond the alternative, outlining the specific characteristics of the skeptical philosophy of the English thinker. It is a sustained attempt to move us away from asking the question in the ideological manner in which it is posed and so, in myriad ways, he turns our attention away from mak…Read more
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    Considérations critiques sur la Constitution et les droits dans la culture juridique italienne contemporaine
    International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 29 (4): 805-822. 2016.
    In the following paper is put in question the present-day dominant Italian ideology of the so called ‘new constitutionalism’, which considers human rights as an open-texture catalogue of claims which only the Constitutional Courts are entitled to interpret and implement. This ideology is considered as a tool for overcoming the traditional liberal rule of law in favor a of more and more developed rule of the courts.
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    De Marx a Kelsen. Ocaso de la ideología y teoría pura del derecho en Italia
    Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez 30 221-250. 2020.
    Analizando las distintas y sucesivas fases de la recepción de Kelsen en Italia, tanto en la Filosofía del Derecho como en la teoría de la democracia y la Ciencia Política, puede concluirse que el pensamiento jurídico italiano está ya preparado para una valoración completa del impacto de Kelsen y del kelsenismo sobre la cultura jurídica europea del siglo XX. En todo caso, hoy es posible hablar de una nueva época de lectura de las obras de Kelsen en Italia. Con la entrada de Kelsen en la Filosofía…Read more
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    Kelsen e il problema della szienza giuridica, 1910-1935
    Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. 1987.