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Rule of
Law:
In Books, in Minds
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cura di / edited by
Corrado Roversi, Marco Brigaglia,
Andrej Kristan
DIRITTO & QUESTIONI
PUBBLICHE | CLEAR
Special Publication / February, 2026
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© 2026, Diritto e questioni pubbliche, Palermo
©
2026, CLEAR www.ruleoflawclear.eu
issn 1825-0173
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Questa Special Publication della rivista Diritto &
Questioni Pubbliche è stata finanziata dall’Unione Europea
– NextGenerationEU a valere sul Piano Nazionale di Ripresa
e Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 Istruzione e ricerca –
Componente 2 Dalla ricerca all’impresa – Investimento 1.1,
Avviso Prin 2022 indetto con DD N. 104 del 2/2/2022, dal
titolo “Il concetto di Stato di diritto: prospettive
analitiche ed empiriche (CLEAR)”, codice proposta
20225TJJSY – CUP J53D23005150006.
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Marco Brigaglia,
Corrado Roversi, Andrej Kristan
Introduction
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PART I.
The Rule of Law: Structure and Challenges |
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Maria Cristina Redondo
Rule of
Law: Hierarchy of Norms in Legal Reasoning
pp. 3-14
Aldo Schiavello
Two
Models of the Rule of Law
pp. 17-26
Riccardo Guastini
On
the Relations between the Rule of Law and Democracy
pp. 29-35
Chiara Valentini
Soft
Law, Justiciability, and the Rule of Law
pp. 37-51
Paolo Capriati
What
is the Rule of Law? Toward a Perception-Based Definition
of the Rule of Law
pp. 53-64
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PART II.
The Rule of Law: Its Crisis and Its Enemies |
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Giorgio
Bongiovanni
On
the Origins of the Difficulties Faced by Constitutional
Democracies
(with an Appendix on Democracy, Constitutionalism,
Rechtsstaat, Rule of law. Some Historical-conceptual
Aspects)
pp. 69-93
Marco Mazzone
How Not
to Be Populist. Anti-hegemonic Individualism
and the Crisis of Democracy and of the Rule of Law
pp. 95-105
Pierluigi Chiassoni
The
Rule of Law and Its Enemies
pp. 107-133
M. Victoria Kristan
Between
Dissensus and Dispute: Variations in the Rule
of Law Discourse
pp. 135-147
>> preprint (07/11/2025)
Alberto Puppo
From the
Rule of Men to the Rule of Law and Back Again:
Some Skeptical Insights about the Temptation
of Judge-Made Social Justice
pp. 149-170
Giovanni Bisogni
The
“Psychology” of Rechtsstaat: from a Sharp XIX-Century
Distinction from Authoritarianism to the Collapse of One
into the Other during Weimar Republic
pp. 173-185
Leonardo Pierdominici
Are
There Populist Constitutional Heuristics?
Some Tentative Answers, and Their Implications for a
Research Project
pp. 187-197
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PART III.
The Rule of Law in Minds
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Corrado
Roversi, Marco Brigaglia,
Andrej Kristan, Luisa Lugli,
Natalia Scavuzzo, Arianna Rossi,
Fabio Ruwett, Glenn De Muynck
The Cognitive Load of an Internal Point of View over the
Rule of Law
pp. 201-228
Jordi Ferrer Beltrán, Carolina Fernández
Blanco,
Víctor García Yzaguirre, Natalia Scavuzzo
Legal
Certainty, the Private Sector, and Empirical Studies:
A Preliminary Approach
pp. 231-248
Marco Segatti
On the
Psychological Basis of the Rule of Law:
from Beccaria to Institutional Experimentalism
pp. 251-270
Francesco Rizzi Brignoli
Democracy
and the Rule of Law: Rethinking Epistemic Accessibility
pp. 273-284
Giuseppe Rocchè
The
Authority of Law and Indirect Theories of Decision-Making
pp. 287-307
>> preprint (25/06/2025)
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PART IV.
Legal Design for the Rule of Law
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Claudio
Agüero San Juan, Paula Morgado
Fernández,
Juan Pablo Zambrano Tiznado
Social
Perceptions of Judges and the Rule of Law:
A Protocol for Designing Judicial Vignettes
pp. 311-336
Pier Francesco Bresciani, Silvia Zullo
Governing
by Nudging: A Critical Inquiry into Liberty and Equality
pp. 339-360
>> preprint (12/12/2025)
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