Marta Cartabia

Andrea Simoncini

Throughout Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's pontificate he spoke to a range of political, civil, academic, and other cultural authorities. These speeches reveal a striking sensitivity to the fundamental problems of law, justice, and democracy. He often presented a call for Christians to address issues of public ethics such as life, death, and family from what they have in common with other fellow citizens: reason. This book discusses the speeches in which the Pope Emeritus reflected most explicitly on this issue, along with commentary from distinguished legal scholars. It responds to Benedict's invitation to engage in public discussion on the limits of positivist reason in the domain of law from his address to the Bundestag. Although the topics of each address vary, they are joined by a series of core ideas whereby Benedict sketches, unpacks, and develops an organic and coherent way to formulate a 'public teaching' on justice and law.

A Dialogue on the Foundation of Law

Pope Benedict XVI's Legal Thought

Adolfo Ceretti

“Entrai a piedi nella città, passai di fianco alle grandi carceri di San Vittore, diedi una benedizione e pensai: lì vivono migliaia di persone che devo andare a trovare.” Con queste parole Carlo Maria Martini ricordava il suo ingresso a Milano il 10 febbraio 1980. Dalle visite in carcere che fece lungo tutto il suo mandato episcopale nasce la riflessione racchiusa in queste pagine: come e perché fare in modo che la pena sia giustizia ma anche ricomposizione?Marta Cartabia, presidente della Corte costituzionale, e Adolfo Ceretti, docente di Criminologia, si confrontano con il magistero di Martini spiegando il valore che esso continua a racchiudere e la necessità ancora viva di ciò che l’arcivescovo auspicava: una giustizia che ricucia i rapporti piuttosto che reciderli, promuova i valori della convivenza civile, porti in sé il segno di ciò che è altro rispetto al male commesso.

Un'altra storia inizia qui

Vittoria Barsotti

Paolo G. Carozza

This collection adopts a distinctive method and structure to introduce the work of Italian constitutional law scholars into the Anglophone dialogue while also bringing a number of prominent non-Italian constitutional law scholars to study and write about constitutional justice in a global context. The work presents six distinct areas of particular interest from a comparative constitutional perspective: first, the role of legal scholarship in the work of constitutional courts; second, structures and processes that contribute to more “open” or “closed” styles of constitutional adjudication; third, pros and cons of collegiality in the work of constitutional courts; fourth, forms of access by individuals to constitutional justice; fifth, methods of constitutional interpretation; and sixth, the relationship between national constitutional adjudication and the transnational context. In each of these six areas, the volume sets up a new and genuine constitutional dialogue between an Italian scholar presenting a discussion and critical assessment of the specific topic, and a non-Italian scholar who responds elaborating the issue as seen from constitutional law beyond the Italian system. The resulting six such dialogues thus provide a dynamic, in-depth, multidimensional, national and transnational/comparative examination of these areas in which the `Italian style’ of constitutional adjudication has a distinctive contribution to make to comparative constitutional law in general. Fostering a deeper knowledge of the Italian Constitutional Court within the comparative global space and advancing a creative and fruitful methodological approach, the book will be fascinating reading for academics and researchers in comparative constitutional law.

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