Ferrajoli Luigi

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• Terrorismo e Guerra : l’alternativo del diritto

  28 December 2004
  In this article, the legal theorist Luigi Ferrajoli analyses the importance of the relation to the legal order in the differentiation between police-operations and military operations. Whereas police-operations can claim a symbolic superiority on criminal activity (by claiming to act in the name of the law), military operations pre-suppose a symbolic equality and hence a risk of perpetuating the violence because of its inherent incapacity to legitimise its violence.