Eligio Resta, Diritto Vivente (Bari: Editori Laterza, 2008)

Eligio Resta is the accomplished author of many books of philosophy of law, and his new volume certainly succeeds in keeping with the high standard of quality that fellow scholars and Italian readers have come to expect from him. The title itself, Living Law, gives us a first idea of what the book is about. Professor Resta endeavours to explain what sort of life enlivens the law, and how this life self-differentiates from the law’s cold and rigid enforcement.Dealing with life in the field of law means not only dealing with life within the law, but also with the life of the law.