Schmitt as Comparative Lawyer

In questo articolo la teoria di Schmitt viene apprezzata più dal punto di vista del diritto comparato che della filosofia del

diritto, mostrando come tale chiave di lettura offra più possibilità interpretative, specie in relazione a Leo Strauss, da un lato, e al sorgere del realismo politico

americano di Morgenthau, dall'altro.

...Tutto ciò impica, ovviamente, un ritorno, attraverso della comparazione, del pensiero giuridico al pensiero del politico. Nel senso preciso per cui il maschile del termine italiano vuole tradurre il neutro del tedesco Das Politisch, con punto o alcun riferimento alla politica, e meno che mai alla mera questione del governo efficace del mondo, ma alla dimensione stessa dell’esistenza storica in quanto esistenza sospesa tra la possibilità dell’ auto-affermazione e dell’annichilimento.

Una tale ‘teoria del politico’, fondata sullo stato di eccezione, cessa quindi di essere una mera teoria della ‘decisione per la risolutezza’, come disse una volta Loewith,^[1] e diviene invece la concreta rappresentazione di origini genealogiche, mantenute come principi legali di ordinamento....

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^[1] Cfr. K. Loewith, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Laterza, Roma, 1994, p. 137.

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Judges as an "Elite": The Case of Italy

Abstract:      

In the last decades, several factors have transformed the morphology of Italian legal system, so to create a perceptible different assess of the equilibrium among powers and formants and to mould, in a renovated way, the overall relationship between Law, Politics and Justice. The Italian judiciary (magistratura) has been re-organized along lines radically dissimilar to those followed in common law systems.
After examining all the data: the number of judges in office, the percentage of represented genders, the amount of cases and the overloading of the legal system, the aim of this paper is to show that a major characteristic of the legal professions in Italy is the almost complete lack of lateral movement among personnel. Career decisions must be made early; for example, applicants for the judiciary must be no more than thirty years of age. Promotion of judges, prosecutors, and state’s attorneys is largely dependent on seniority.
My theory is that the unwanted result of all this has been both a Judicialization of Italian Legal System and a politicization of the judiciary through the CSM as a peculiar Italian institution, re-defining the Italian Legal Style

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Monateri on Cir vs Fininvest

Commento a CIR vs FININVEST. Cass. 21255-2013. A Government from the Judges, by the Judges and for the Judges.

L'autore contrasta la decisione della Cassazione sulla base di considerazioni generali. La principale della quali è il ritorno attuale alla pratica dello Judicare tamquan Deus dei Grandi Tribunali prima dell'avvento della modernità... more

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Risarcimento Del Danno, Responsabilità Civile, and Torts

Stasis in Moltmann e Schmitt

Stasis in Moltmann e Schmitt
Pier Giuseppe Monateri

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Abstract

The essay introduces an original interpretation of Moltmann’s thought on Christian kenosis, according to the fundamental critical method known as ‘close reading’. On this ground, the Author brings to the surface the complex bulk of literary quotations which give substance to a specific passage in Moltmann’s work “The Crucified God”. Quotations become an intellectual device apt to produce meaning through its proper deferral and suspension. Within this framework, the Author’s main purpose is to put at the centre of the scene the explicit reference made by Moltmann to C. Schmitt’s concept of stasis, in order to explain the self-emptying of God even in a political perspective, as a kind of internal battle within divinity. The theological canon (Christian kenosis as moulded by Moltmann) is conceptually linked to the political anti-canon (stasis and exception as defined by C. Schmitt). In this perspective the structural relationship between Theology and Politics, usually epitomized by the synthetic expression of ‘political theology’, comes to be re-substantiated.

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kenosis; stasis; Moltmann; Schmitt; political theology; close reading; interpretation; canon; anti-canon; quotation

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