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Rule of Law:
In Books, in Minds

a cura di / edited by
Corrado Roversi, Marco Brigaglia, Andrej Kristan

DIRITTO & QUESTIONI PUBBLICHE | CLEAR
Special Publication / February, 2026



 

© 2026, Diritto e questioni pubbliche, Palermo

© 2026, CLEAR www.ruleoflawclear.eu

issn 1825-0173





 

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.

   
contents
 

Marco Brigaglia, Corrado Roversi, Andrej Kristan
Introduction



PART I.
The Rule of Law: Structure and Challenges
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


  PART II.
The Rule of Law: Its Crisis and Its Enemies
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

 
 

PART III.
The Rule of Law in Minds

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)

 

PART IV.
The Rule of Law in Minds

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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