Historicity of Law and ius controversum in italian Historiography of the twentieth century. The work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi

The essay analyzes the work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi, that involves the problem of awareness of the historicity of law. This delicate question concerns both the ancient and modern jurists, for whom tradition is not an inevitable constraint to be passively abstracted, but rather constituted the object of a continuous critical examination.