Francesco Carnelutti e la «clinica del diritto». Attualità e sviluppi di un’intuizione

This chapter revisits Francesco Carnelutti's 1935 proposal to integrate legal dogmatics with a "clinic of law", eighty years on. It first places Carnelutti's pages within the lively debate of his time on the methods and aims of university legal education, including Julien Bonnecase's "retrospective clinic" based on the critical study of case law. It then argues that the intuition remains topical in the age of information and communication technology, in light of Italian university reforms and the call to teach skills rather than mere notions. The conclusions advocate an interdisciplinary legal education, open to history, comparison and the humanities.