Giovanni Bombelli

The essay focuses on some aspects of the relation between the notion of “cause (causality, causation)” and law. The preliminary distinction among the concept of “cause” and other categories (i.e. “beginning” and “origin”) allows to highlight three patterns of causality: the deterministic model (including its fundamental projection on Kelsen’s legal theory), the probabilistic framework and, finally, the theoretical outlook based on the uncertainty of the scientific knowledge...

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The paper addresses the conceptual circle among the legal notions of “type”, “typicality” and “atypicality” (or “non-tipicality”). Starting from the methodological hypothesis about the close relation between the theoretical-legal approach and the philosophical-legal perspective, in the first part the contribution focuses on any profiles of the legal type in order to highlight its complexity: the comparison (i.e. through Weber and Kelsen) between the “sociological type” and the “legal type”; the ambivalence and the pragmatic-performative function of the type; the normative dimension and, finally, the problematic nexus between the type (understood as a theoretical-legal category) and the crisis of the concept of “legal order/system”...

This essay is an attempt to highlight an aspect of Sergio Cotta’s philosophy of law and, in particular, it focuses on the relation between law and anthropological dimension as developed by Cotta...

The conceptual polarity person-community represents a key topic within the traditional or continental philosophical-legal debate as well as a crucial theoretical framework of some legal documents (i.e. the Italian Constitution). The analysis of the fundamental historical-legal paradigms according to which this pair developed (the Christian model, the modern passage and the contemporary scenario) highlights the theoretical complexity and the dialectical structure underlying the idea of “person” and the communitarian horizon as well...

ABSTRACT: The complex nature of the contemporary western societies, characterized by the strict interlacing between economic and technological factors, puts in question some «classical» legal categories and, at the same time, their conceptual horizons (for instance the notions of «legal order» and «system»). Hence, using the «globalization» as a case-study, you can read these new sceneries by a new theoretical perspective and, more precisely, a «reticular model». It is based on the interpretation of the social contexts by the concept of «net» (network society or web society), which is essentially «atopical», «horizontal», «ahierarchical», «aformal» and «self-increasing». Consequently, it’s possible to interpret the political-legal «subjects» and institutions as «knots», which are fundamentally: «functional» (instrumental), «neutral», «polar», and «replaceable». From a philosophical-legal point of view, this new conceptual scheme is to be understood in a postmodern horizon, for which the traditional categories of «totality» and «generalization» make room, in some way, to the new horizon of «effectivity». KEY WORDS: technology, law, network, knot, globalization. SOMMARIO: 1. L’«oggi»: la tecnologia tra aspetti cognitivi e profi li socio-giuridici. – 2. Postmoderno e strutture reticolari del diritto. – 3. Il concetto di «rete». – 3.1. Atopicità. – 3.2. Orizzontalità. – 3.3. Agerarchicità. – 3.4. In-formalità. – 3.5. Autopoieticità. – 4. «Rete» e globalizzazione. – 5. Il concetto di «nodo». – 5.1. Funzionalità. – 5.2. Neutralità. – 5.3. Polarità. – 5.4. Fungibilità. – 6. «Nodi» e globalizzazione. – 7. Una lettura teorica: «totalità», «generalizzazione», «effettività».