On Rules - Softcover

Colombo, Gherardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9462981949 ISBN 13: 9789462981942

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

When talking about justice, we mean more than its day-today administration involving offi cials, institutions, and those most affected. We also refer to an ideal: a set of basic values which guide living together and infuse the distribution of rights and duties, options and obligations, freedoms and restrictions. Losing this reference point means the administration of justice will suffer too, by having lost its sense of direction.

With thirty years' experience in the Italian judiciary and dozens of infl uential judicial inquiries to his name Gherardo Colombo refl ects on the culture of justice and the profound meaning of rules. Without respecting rules, we cannot live in society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462981949
• ISBN 13: 9789462981942
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146