This essay aims to highlight – also rhetorically resorting to a famous example from ancient history – that all forms of retroactive law are always destined to profoundly alter social balances. Hence the retroactivity of some laws (such as those that go by the name of mild law or authentic interpretation law) is only in appearance a «necessary» feature. In reality, it is always a matter of political and non-neutral choices. And the mildness or interpretative character of the law only constitutes profiles of greater acceptability of the change desired by the legislator.
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Chapter Title
L’eversività della mitezza
Authors
Guglielmo Fransoni
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1043-0.10
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Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Book Title
Il principio di retroattività della lex mitior
Editors
Laura Castaldi, Francesco Zini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
170
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1043-0
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1042-3
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1043-0
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-1044-7
Series Title
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze politiche e internazionali
Series ISSN
3035-5850
Series E-ISSN
3035-5664