The work questions itself on the developments in Italian constitutional and administrative
law scholarship in recent decades, convinced that a relationship of
mutual integration has been witnessed, where nonetheless the difficulty of precisely
framing it remains. For the author the problem with this confrontation is represented
by the singling out of the conditions so that it can be useful. The writing
holds that such conditions belong first and foremost to three general orders: method, content and objectives. If they are shared, they identify a programme for
truly common research. The general condition of method in the first place regards
the identity profile and concerns the singling out of the core of importance
that distinguishes administrative law from the other administrative sciences. The
content profile pertains to the identification of some themes with respect to which
the need for an integrated contribution of administrative and constitutional
law specialists is greater. But a programme must have an objective. In the author's
view, this objective can be none other than one anchored to a basic need
common to all branches of public law, namely the redefinition of a correct relationship
between institutions and the individual citizen where what involved is
not proposing a 'minimal' State, much less a 'weak' State. Rather, it means rebuilding
public law starting from the person.