Italian Review of Legal History

Call for paper 2025: Peoples and Governments in historical perspective and / or in the present

The board of the Italian Review of Legal History invites all scholars to contribute to the next issue of the year (2025) on the topic: Peoples and Governments in historical perspective and / or in the present

For centuries, in Western and Eastern cultures, it has been argued that the main function of 'good government' is to take care of the peace, utility and general interest of the people.

The prospects for debate on this topic are endless.

The term people has had in the past and has in the present many declinations: community, citizenship, ethnicity, nationality. The same can be said for the terms peace, utility and general interest, which involve both public law and social and cultural profiles if we think, for example, of the issues of inequality, health and education.