On Rules
Will be published approx. on 13. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
146 pages
978-94-6298-194-2 (ISBN)
Description
Justice is simultaneously a practical and an ideal concept: when we think of justice, we refer to its day-to-day administration, involving police, lawyers, judges, and politicians-but we also refer to a larger ideal, a set of basic values that guide our attempts to live together and balance competing interests, obligations, and freedoms. If we lose sight of the practical, the ideal will fail-but if we forget the ideal, the practical becomes pointless.
On Rules is the culmination of decades of thinking about and working within the law as both ideal and realm of practical action. Gherardo Colombo brings to his rich philosophical analysis of the culture of justice thirty years of experience in the Italian judiciary, which saw him head up numerous important and sensitive commissions and inquiries. His exploration of the concept and application of rules of justice is powerful and clear: if we don't root our experience in a fundamental respect for rules, we cannot have a functioning, just society.
On Rules is the culmination of decades of thinking about and working within the law as both ideal and realm of practical action. Gherardo Colombo brings to his rich philosophical analysis of the culture of justice thirty years of experience in the Italian judiciary, which saw him head up numerous important and sensitive commissions and inquiries. His exploration of the concept and application of rules of justice is powerful and clear: if we don't root our experience in a fundamental respect for rules, we cannot have a functioning, just society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
0 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 176 mm
Width: 115 mm
ISBN-13
978-94-6298-194-2 (9789462981942)
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Persons
Professor Gherardo Colombo (1946) was an investigative judge and a consultant of various Italian Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry. He was involved in a nationwide Italian judicial investigation into political corruption held in the 1990s, 'Mani pulite' (clean hands). He is now President of publishing house Gazanti Libri and member of association Sulle Regole.
Content
Introduction 5 1. An Imaginary Country 25 Part I The Ambiguities of Justice 2. Law and Justice 33 3. Laws Difffering in Time and Space 34 4. 'Justice' is an Ambiguous Word 36 5. Law Comes From God 39 6. Law is Just If It is 'Natural' 43 7. Law is Just When It Exists 45 8. From Subject to Citizen 46 Part II Horizontal Society and Vertical Society 9. The Vertical Society 51 10. The Horizontal Society 57 11. Structure of the Two Models 64 12. Consequences of the Vertical Society 65 13. Consequences of the Horizontal Society 70 14. Fundamental Rights According to the Two Models 76 15. Sanctions According to the Vertical Model 79 16. The Consequences to Offfences in the Horizontal Society 84 17. Victim and Offfender 91 18. Limits to Personal Liberty 95 19. Vertical Society, Horizontal Society, Ideology and Religion 97 Part III Towards a Horizontal Society 20. An Attempt to Justify Law at the End of the Second Millennium 103 21. The Limits of International Rules 106 22. An Attempt at Creating a Horizontal Society: the Italian Constitution 109 23. The Person Comes First 111 24. What is Missing? 114 25. Uncertainties in the Constitutional Process 117 26. Culture 119 27. The Interests of Those Who Oppose the Horizontal Society 124 28. Security 126 29. Escaping Responsibility 128 Part IV How Do We Get There? 30. The Time Dynamic 133 31. Self-Awareness 135 Conclusion 142 Acknowledgments 144