Federico Puppo

The essential feature of law is the language, but language is vague. And this is both for “law in the books” and for “law in action”: vague is in fact the language of legislators, the one of judges, lawyers, prosecutors, witnesses and so on. I would like to discuss this topic to understand what vagueness is. I will analyse the different strategies proposed to face vagueness and I would like to take into account my thesis too, which is characterized by non-analytical conception of language and by the recovery of rhetoric’s and dialectic’s importance in trial.

Federico Puppo, University of Trento