Quale istituzionalismo giuridico per quale democrazia?
The present contribution is devoted to assessing the workable topicality of the major texts (in terms of a general theory of law) of those whom I consider the most significant exponents of European-Continental legal institutionalism, which came about between the two world wars of the 20th century, from the vantage point of the difficult relationship of integration without reciprocal colonisation or subordination between political democracy and the complexity of the juridical, here understood as a sphere that, in the West, even before the establishment of national states, shaped up as a diff