Rodotà, Stefano (2015), Diritto d’amore

Giovanni Blando

doi:10.4000/rccs.6624

Abstract

Stefano Rodota is Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of Rome La Sapienza, one of the authors of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Very sensitive to major social issues, in his recent book, Diritto d’amore, Rodota has focused on the role that one of the basic human emotions, precisely that of love, should play in the legal and political dynamics of today’s society, arguing from a historical reconstruction of the most important events involving the dyad law/love. Rodota empha...

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Stefano Rodotà is Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of Rome La Sapienza, one of the authors of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Very sensitive to major social issues, in his recent book, Diritto d’amore, Rodotà has focused on the role that one of the basic human emotions, precisely that of love, should play in the legal and political dynamics of today’s society, arguing from a historical reconstruction of the most important events involving the dyad law/love
From the very beginning, that in too many occasions the law has been used like an “instrumentto neutralize love” (p. 3), with the attempt to prevent free love to orient itself towards disparate directions, which could lead to the dissolution of the social order

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Stefano Rodotà is Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of Rome La Sapienza, one of the authors of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. ISSN: 2182-7435 Publisher Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra Printed version Date of publication: 1 May 2017 Number of pages: 135-138 ISSN: 0254-1106

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