El libro ademas de una historia personal es, un estudio sobre la politica de este siglo, escrito por uno de sus mas agudos observado-res.

With incisiveness and lucid style, Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law’s Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debated for years to come.

1. Teoria del diritto -- 2. Teoria della democrazia -- 3. La sintassi del diritto.

This is the second volume in a sub-series of specially commissioned collaborative volumes on key topics at the heart of contemporary philosophy of law that will be appearing regularly within Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law. A distinguished international team of legal theorists examine the issue of constitutionalism and pose such foundational questions as: why have a constitution? How do we know what the constitution of a country really is? How should a constitution be interpreted? Why should one generation feel (...) bound by the constitution of an earlier one? The volume will be of particular importance to those in philosophy, law, political science and international relations interested in what kinds of constitutions should be adopted in countries without them, and involved in debates about constitutional interpretation. (shrink)

Questo libro analizza la crisi dei fondamenti del diritto penale espressa dal profondo divario tra il sistema normativo delle garanzie e il funzionamento effettivo delle istituzioni punitive. Ne rintraccia le radici nella fragilità teorica del modello garantista tramandato dalla tradizione illuministica e nella concorrenza ad esso opposta, fin dal secolo scorso, dal continuo riemergere di archetipi penali premoderni e di mai spente tentazioni autoritarie. Illustra le forme molteplici d'illegittimità e d'ingiustizia prodotte dall'inadeguatezza o dalle lesioni delle singole garanzie. E propone, (...) di fronte alla crisi del modello, una sua rifondazione filosofica e politica nel quadro di una teoria generale del garantismo. La prefazione è a cura di Norberto Bobbio. (shrink)

The problem of the relationship between “reason” and “law” has two different meanings depending on whether the first or the second of the two terms is considered to be the most important one. These two different meanings are revealed in the expressions “law of reason” and “legal reason,” respectively. In the first expression, “reason” is meant in its strong sense, that is, the faculty of grasping the essence of things, while in the second, “reason” is meant in a weak sense, (...) the ability to reason (calculate, infer, discuss). “Law of reason” and “legal reason” correspond to two different moments of the legal universe, the creation and, respectively, the application of law. Strong reason is that which discovers the rules to be obeyed, while weak reason is that which applies rules to an actual case. The first is legislating reason, while the second is judging reason. The main topic of the debate from the Greeks to Kant was that of legislating reason. Nowadays, instead, scholars in the field are interested in judging reason. Historicism and positivism mark the end of faith in the existence of rules which are objectively just, and which may be recognized by human reason. By now we have learned to do without the eternal truths in the knowledge of the world. However painful it may be, we are forced to resign ourselves to do without evident truths in ethics, as well. (shrink)