This essay aims at verifying the existence of a line of continuity between the artistic genre of the danse macabre and the legal implications of death in the historical evolution of the relationship between law and religion. Although the institution originated in medieval Europe and bears some similarities to rituals in different…
In today’s hyperconnected society, internet has profoundly transformed social interaction, identity formation, and public discourse. This paper examines the dual nature of digital networks: as spaces of emancipation and empowerment, but also as enablers of pathological and criminal phenomena. Particular attention is paid to social withdrawal (hikikomori) and online hate…
This article addresses compliance within the European regulatory framework, arguing for the need to move beyond traditional ontological models toward epistemological approaches to compliance-based analysis: what has been termed as a sematic turn. Static representations of legal norms are increasingly inadequate to capture the complexity of technologically mediated regulatory environments…
This article examines gamification as a normative technology that utilizes incentives to reconfigure metrics and reputations within non-game contexts. Starting from a revival of the magic circle theory, the contribution first reconsiders the liminal nature of play and subsequently investigates the intersections and links between gamification, nudging, and forms of…
This article is an afterword to the Special Issue “Philosophical Perspectives in the Philosophy of Law.” It provides a reasoned epitome of the overall issue and an illustration of its contents with regard to the contributions provided by the authors involved
MISLAM stems from the observation of the current times of war and instability, when unresolved issues resurface in public and political debates. Accordingly, the project addresses knotty problems by investigating – through the prism of normativity – topical and usually overlooked dynamics occurring when the daily life of MMCs’ (im)migrants…
This article explores the relevance of maieutics for legal thought, focusing on its role within legal institutions. It reconsiders the accounts of maieutics proposed by Hannah Arendt and Jan Patočka, employing the distinction between knowing and understanding as a critical lens for legal analysis. Within this framework, Socrates is interpreted…
New technologies have transformed the role of human beings. Once merely users of technological tools, we have become part of social and institutional processes to the extent that we have become dependent on the technocratic paradigm. We are witnessing the emergence of a virtualised society in which human originality will…
The theory of custom aims to research and define what we call custom. This study attempts to orient theoretical practice towards itself and demonstrate that its very method and knowledge are customary: moving from the theory of custom to the custom of theory. In this sense, the theoretical question of…
This paper focuses on the historical evolution of the concept of asylum through the analysis of a selected set of data collected in two national databases: DoGi – Dottrina Giuridica (Legal Doctrine) and IS-LeGI – Indice Semantico del Lessico Giuridico Italiano (Semantic Index of the Italian Legal Lexicon). Both services…
