Abstract
What do we actually mean when we talk about «post-modern» law? Today, the adjective «post-modern» has entered the legal discourse and is generally used to describe the status of law after several changes that occurred in recent history, such as the loss of centrality of the civil code and the flourishing of sectorial legislation; the increasing fragmentation of legal sources and the subsequent criticism of hierarchy as a tenable criterion to sort them; the tendency of judge-made law to overturn statutory law, thus reshaping the traditional relationships between legislation and jurisdiction. The trait-d’union of these tendencies is an increasing complexity and fragmentation, which ultimately leads to the radical question of whether the “regulatory power and capacity” of law itself served another “grand narrative”, discomforted and refused by post-modern law. The book collects the lectures and speeches made during an interdisciplinary seminar, which brought together criminal, private law academics and philosophers of law in order to discuss the main features of post-modern law and tackle its challenges, including the role of academics.
