Laicità
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: la laicità giuridica - 2. L’enunciazione - 3. La definizione - 4. La riscrittura.
Abstract: In his brilliant work on «La laicità penale alla sfida del "secolo delle paure"» Carlo Enrico Paliero highlighted the distance between positive legal systems and a supposed (ideal-typical) archetype of 'laicità', of which the single legal system represents a "mestizo" model. The iconic image restores the complexity of any definitional challenge on 'laicità'. Law, unfolding as a practical science, has gradually managed to circumvent the obstacle through a process of empirical signification, derived, at times, from concrete needs. Therefore, it would be improper, if not arbitrary, to attempt to offer a contribution on legal 'laicità' in disregard of the events that have characterized its absence from the text of the Charter and the demands of ordinal self-protection that have determined, instead, the subsequent 'unveiling' or 'creation' of the unexpressed principle.
The author
Professore ordinario di Diritto ecclesiastico nell’Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche “Cesare Beccaria”.
Notes
Contributo sottoposto a valutazione - Peer reviewed paper. Destinato alla pubblicazione nel volume collettaneo Scritti in onore di Carlo Enrico Paliero, Giuffrè, Milano.