Abstract

The way in which jurists of different training react to transformations in constitutional law seems to rekindle old conflicts and revive controversies over method that enlivened legal debate for nearly the entire past century. In reality, we are in the presence of a turning point in the study of constitutional law that involves the very content of the discipline and its significance within the framework of the entire legal culture of our time. Constitutional law no longer presents itself as just a sector that takes into consideration the study of sources, the organisation of the State and the catalogue of fundamental rights, but as a discipline that above all has as its object the principles of the entire legal system. As a consequence of this changed outlook, constitutional law presents itself as an area of studies destined to be enriched by the contributions of all jurists operating in different fields and the input of jurisprudence, as well as of legislation and legal scholarship as a whole.