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On Rules
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Description for On Rules
Paperback. With thirty years' experience in the Italian judiciary and dozens of influential judicial inquiries to his name, Gherardo Colombo reflects on the culture of justice and the profound meaning of rules. Num Pages: 146 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 115. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789462981942
SKU
V9789462981942
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99-25
About Colombo
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.
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