Shifting Frames: Law and Legal "Contaminations" in Italy.
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Shifting Frames: Law and Legal "Contaminations" in Italy P.G.Monateri & F.M.Chiaves Introduction Our work is divided in two main sections. In the first half we sketch an outline of the basic stuff of law and politics in Italy. This part is meant to be a general introduction giving basic information to a foreign audience. In the second half we try to unroll more specifically the two main turning points that occurred in Italian legal culture. The first having been a transplant of French legal sources and a general frame of the national law after a French pattern. The second was a global shift toward German paradigms with dramatic influence on the legal discourse and the way of approaching and using legal sources. In so doing we maintain a critical and comparative view of the law where formal sources are to be seen as authorities to which the legal...


