This book examines the longstanding, yet ambiguous and deeply complex, relationship between law and aesthetics.Despite numerous studies dedicated to the topic, the relationship between aesthetics and law tends to be interpreted as one between two approaches, two thematic horizons, two disciplines, or two distinct semantic universes. Conversely, the book argues that legal phenomena cannot be properly understood without grasping the relevance of aesthetics within the experience of la...

This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups. Group vulnerability has become a common concept within legal and political scholarship but remains largely undertheorized as a phenomenon itself. At the same time, in academia and within legal circles, vulnerability is primarily understood as a phenomenon affecting individuals, and the attempts to iden...

Il rule of law, formula generalissima entro cui si ricomprendono i meccanismi giuridici volti a limitare il potere e a ridurre l’arbitrio, nasce storicamente come rimedio ai vizi dell’agire pubblico. Esso presuppone tuttavia specifici atteggiamenti soggettivi da parte dei suoi attori principali, siano essi titolari di funzioni pubbliche o cittadini. L’art. 54 della Costituzione italiana, ad esempio, impone a coloro cui sono affidate funzioni pubbliche il dovere di adempierle con disciplina...

This book, part of the Gender Perspectives in Law series, seeks to explore the link between theory and practice in contemporary feminisms. Editors of this book recognize that the focus on theoretical and ideological frameworks must be complemented by a reflection on the political and legal value of concrete practices. Therefore, the aim is to investigate this longstanding and successful interplay between theory and practices from different perspectives and methodological approaches, rangin...