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The Legal Value of Informality for the General Interest: The Example of Cities

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At first sight, informality and law, especially public law, appear to be two irrenconcilable concepts. And yet, in spite of the first indication there are numerous cases in which, especially in urban contexts, social phenomena and practices can engage public authorities by assuming legal significance. The essay examines them and offers a classification of these legal models. The paper concludes by explaining why all this calls for the use of the concept of the city, which is a notion only recently known to public law. 

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See for example Court of Florence, 8 November 2019, no. 4530, regarding the Mondeggi case which caused considerable discussion.

  2. 2.

    See Corte di Cassazione, Criminal Section, 10 August 2018, no. 38483.

  3. 3.

    See Corte dei Conti, Regione Lazio Section, 18 April 2017, no. 76 and 77; Corte dei Conti, section III, 19 September 2017, n. 456; Corte dei Conti, Regione Lazio Section, 29 January 2018, no. 52.

  4. 4.

    See law no. 168 of 2017 on collective domains.

  5. 5.

    Reference is made to the important sentence by the Corte Costituzionale no. 131 of 2020.

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  1. Department of Political Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Fabio Giglioni

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  1. Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Maria Vittoria Ferroni

  2. Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Rossana Galdini

  3. Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Giovanni Ruocco

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Giglioni, F. (2023). The Legal Value of Informality for the General Interest: The Example of Cities. In: Ferroni, M.V., Galdini, R., Ruocco, G. (eds) Urban Informality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29827-1_5

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