The Moral Foundations of Law

(1.5,2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The legal guarantee of "Fundamental Rights" is presented as a post-World War II conquest. All constitutions in Europe - or almost - contain declarations of rights and determine specific mechanisms for their guarantee. But, since recognizing and affirming the existence of rights is obviously not enough to guarantee them, we must question with great precision what are the means, both normative and material, which are actually instituted and implemented by the different States. Europeans to ensure the guarantee of fundamental rights. These means may in themselves be effective or not at all, and, moreover, circumstances can have a very profound and lasting influence on the guarantee of rights, like today's economic and of the institution of security normativity.