The paper aims to examine some aspects of the legal philosophical theory of Marsilius of Padua contained in his main work, the Defensor Pacis, which have received less attention than the historical and political profiles, and the more classical themes of popular sovereignty and secularism. More specifically, it examines some passages of…
The modern vestment of the contractual will is not a conventional, but an institutional language. It is spoken – or rather, practiced – within ‘virtual rooms’ where the problem is not the lack of information, but an excessof it; and where semantic obscurity is not linked merely to the choice of words used to formulate this or…
Taking as starting point the Multimedia Handbook of Philosophy of Law by Thomas Casadei and Gianfrancesco Zanetti, the author of the contribution analyses its methodological structure highlighting not only the characteristics that determine its completeness and originality in the legal-philosophical panorama, but also some conceptual nodes of the contemporary debate on law, rights and…
Today, surveillance perpetrated by a few invisible entities on a large number of citizens is a widespread practice. However, in the field of surveillance studies, this situation is perceived as a threat to the smooth functioning of democratic regimes. Through this paper, three paradigmatic figures of rings capable of granting invisibility will…
While foreign policy and international affairs are increasingly showing a new kind of worldwide tension, the legal reflections on concepts such as ‘just’ and ‘unjust’ wars seem to have attracted a deeper level of attention. The most common conclusion is that an accepted system of interstate regulation has failed to…
Starting from a study of the semiotic concept of the city as a closed text, stratified and negotiated by its inhabitants, this contribution focuses on the aedes sacrae as monument-logos that reflect the different cultural- religious identities that nowadays populate modern post-secular cities. Subsequently, moving from the phenomena of ‘spatial…
This article deals with the logic of fiqh as the understanding of Šarī‘ah. Its core argument is that the distinctive nature of fiqh, as a specific type of law making, consists of the delivery of verdicts.To support this theory, the article preliminarily focuses on the tenets of Muslim cosmology/legal theology…
This article aims to analyze some specific elements of Maurice Hauriou’s institutionalist theory. Dealing with Hauriou is an opportunity to discuss once again the philosophical-legal aspects that shape the backbone of traditional legal institutionalism and to reconsider the theoretical sources Hauriou may have drawn on. In the three genealogical itineraries…
This study is in the area of forensic linguistics that aims to make legal documents understandable, readable and complete. The starting point of this analysis is the well-known but still unresolved problem of complexity and lack of clarity of bank information sheets offered to consumers, as such stemming from the…
This article tries to propose and exercise a graphical perspective as a critique of the theoretical normativity inherent in the philosophy of law. Philosophy of law is placed in a tradition or interweaving of graphic practices: writing, alphabet, text, grammar, etc. This ideal and potentially abysmal genealogy takes form as…
