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the aim of this article is to examine how and why -- in the current legal context, and because of some relevant changes that are ripening -- the legal practice is supported by a solid professional ethics of the legal roles, summed up in the respect of the rule of law. other elements that in the past seemed crucial to explain the legal order nowadays are inadequate and a legal theory without considering the role of lawyers is incomplete. After indicating the changes in the background, it will follow an analysis of the legal professional ethics and the reasons of its specificity. Against what is supported by the recent literature about eliminativism in legal philosophy, the perspective of professional ethics implies an inquiry about the concept of law and the question about the autonomy of law from Politics and morality. the answer to these questions requires to confute three thesis: the irrelevance of the concept of law for its practice; the realistic reduction of law to power; the moral monism in the field of obligations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the aim of the article is to discuss viola's paper on the future of law in which he offers an alternative to legal positivism. in the opinion of the author, viola's position, which can be characterized as natural law constitutionalism, presents some analogies with postpositivism, but also some significant differences [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a comment on francesco viola's work about the future of law and his insistence in the necessity of legal adjudication takes into account the circumstances of the particular case, i shall intend to show the reasons that led to a view of rules as general and abstract norms, almost algorithmically applicable to individual cases. After i shall refer to the well-known crisis that this idea generated and the introduction of the principles in the law's image. Arguing, as conclusion, that this image of law as a two storey building (with two floors one for rules, another for principles is not adequate and it should be substituted with the image of a single storey building (with only the ground floor), in where rules and defeaters live together, defeaters being something like gargoyles, that can modify, alter and make more accurate the rules through allowing the use of moral considerations and moral argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the main challenge that law will have to face in the near future is the defense of human being against the uncontrolled power of technology in different spheres: ecology versus the becoming of a new geological age: the Anthropocene; the finances, versus speculation and taxes fraud; biolaw, versus the transhumanist challenge; the rights to privacy and no manipulation versus GAf( Google, Amazon, facebook). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]