This essay analyzes the genetic paths of Western legal subjectivity within the semantic spectrum of legal capacity. In turn, the historical transfigurations of legal capacity are traced by probing their phylogenetic connections—as it were—with the phenomenology of the sacred. To this end, the investigation unfolds through three basic articulations: a)…
The following contribution focuses on how to match the lens of restorative justice with the concerns of (also structural) past imbalance, today commonly considered as forms of injustice which need to be rebalanced through a variety of measures. Nowadays these situations are considered part of history (e.g., colonialism, various forms…
This paper offers some proposals for a reasoned implementation of the IS-LeGI database. Starting from the 35,000 terms of the Lessico Giuridico Italiano (LGI) database, an index of words has been found that could be seen as a new thematic section of the IS-LeGI database. A review of the words, and therefore…
The paper illustrates the relationship between fake news, critical thinking and digital literacy and offers some reflections on the illusory effect of truth generated by misinformation in today’s digital platform society. In the second part, the contribution identifies technological solutions to address digital and functional illiteracy through a new civic…
The contribution refers to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict originating from the aggression of Moscow in Kiev on February 24, 2022 to analyze, on the one hand, the Russian autocratic involution over the two decades led by Putin, and on the other hand, the genesis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from…
The essay addresses the issue of trust across the spectrum, as it were, of a recent book focusing on the role of trust in public life and, allegedly, within the legal experience. Using ‘trust’ as a sort of keyhole through which to take an oblique look at legal experience and…
Within Italian criminal law, the category of motive entitled motivi futili, or futile motives, is used as an evaluation standard in determining an increase in the severity of a penalty for a crime committed, not unlike the designation ‘aggravated’ in common law systems. An application of the penalty means that…
This contribution addresses the fascinating but ‘difficult issue’ of human rights. More specifically, theleitmotiv of the overall essay is the (potential) universality of human rights. In this respect, the relationshipbetween human rights and fundamental rights is investigated in the first place. The next step coincides with theassessment of the possible…
The development of a panoply of effective vaccines against Sars-Cov-2, formulated in record time and unprecedented in the history of pharmacopeia, has not furnished the desired barrier against the spread of the pandemic. In fact, the struggle to combat CoViD-19 is characterised by opposing sides. On one side there are…
The following contribution offers a legal-philosophical perspective on Dante Aligheri’s conception of judgement, punishment and reward in the Divine Comedy. Dante’s Commedia offers several opportunities for philosophical reflection on justice-related themes, starting from the consideration that in all the three works, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso ‘rewards and punishments’ are threatened…
