Since the 1970s, critical legal scholarship has made use of the concept of 'infra-law' to draw attention to a certain set of administrative and governance practices. These practices are characterised by a wide use of regulatory instruments that are easily taken away from public and sometimes even legal control. They allow, therefore, the regulation of specific matters, as well as the condition of particular subjects, in ways that are incompatible with the explicit principles of the rule of law, without these principles having to be called into question. In this essay I will try to delineate the theoretical context in which the concept of infra-law is more clearly shown and its limits and potentialities become comprehensible.
A partire dagli anni settanta del secolo scorso, la letteratura giuridica di indirizzo critico si avvale del concetto di ‘infradiritto’ per richiamare l’attenzione su un complesso di pratiche amministrative e di governo caratterizzate dal ricorso diffuso a strumenti normativi che è agevole sottrarre al controllo pubblico e talora anche a quello giurisdizionale e che consentono, pertanto, di regolare specifiche materie e la condizione di particolari soggetti in modi incompatibili con i principi espliciti dello stato di diritto senza che tali principi debbano essere rimessi in discussione. In questo saggio proverò a delineare il contesto teorico nel quale il concetto si delinea più chiaramente e sul cui sfondo ne divengono comprensibili i limiti e le potenzialità.
INFRADIRITTO, CONTRODIRITTO E ‘REGRESSIONE DEL GIURIDICO’
lorenzo milazzo
2020-01-01
Abstract
Since the 1970s, critical legal scholarship has made use of the concept of 'infra-law' to draw attention to a certain set of administrative and governance practices. These practices are characterised by a wide use of regulatory instruments that are easily taken away from public and sometimes even legal control. They allow, therefore, the regulation of specific matters, as well as the condition of particular subjects, in ways that are incompatible with the explicit principles of the rule of law, without these principles having to be called into question. In this essay I will try to delineate the theoretical context in which the concept of infra-law is more clearly shown and its limits and potentialities become comprehensible.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.