Tradition and Revolution: Law in Action

This book shows that true ’revolutionary’ achievements in contemporary civil society must start from an analysis of traditional categories. In particular, the proposition of new models for the functioning of democracy, through participatory institutions, must pass through a detailed analysis of the democracy of representation and the crisis of parliaments. The proposition of the new and revolutionary category of the commons must have as its starting point the crisis of public property, which is increasingly at the service of technocratic and financial processes. This presupposes a commitment of citizenship, to make law live beyond itself, and to realise the phenomenon that has been called civic theology through law in action.

Alberto Lucarelli is a lawyer, a scholar and a militant for the protection of the common good and for a new vision of the law. Full professor of constitutional law at the University of Naples Federico II, he lectures and teaches courses at several foreign Universities including Paris1, Paris2, Montreal, Toulouse, Blumenau, Lyon, Grenoble. Legal consultant to public institutions and social movements: he was the first local administrator in Italy to be delegated authority for public water, writing and defending in the Constitutional Court the referendums for public water. He is one of the founders of the theory of the common good and participatory democracy writing groundbreaking resolutions that are studied throughout Europe.