Luigi Ferrajoli’s garantism

Authors

  • Dario Ippolito

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/733

Abstract

In the last two centuries, several meanings have been associated with the word “guarantism”, linking it with the demand for welfare, constitutional guardianship of fundamental freedoms and z limitation of the state’s punitive power. Penal “guarantism”, forged in the legal culture of the Enlightenment, has found its major theoretical expression in Luigi Ferrajoli’s refl ection, who over the last 20 years has articulated and expanded the “guarantist” paradigm, putting it in relation with the various dimensions of constitutional democracy.

Key words: guarantism, constitutionalism, Ferrajoli.

Published

2011-07-15