Abstract

This "focus" on Gianluigi Palombella's book "È possible una legalità globale?" draws attention on many issues connected to the concept of rule of law as "an institutional idea concerning law" in global governance. The contributions give a comprehensive picture of the problems at stake: the historical roots of rule of law, the unity and duality of law and politics in Western tradition and the urgency of re-coupling in supranational areas, the concept of public through law in the age of global coordinative regimes. In the last contribution, the author of the book returns on some problems raised in the comments.