Andrea Nicolussi

The essay deals with the centrality of the words of law in the teaching of Carlo Castronovo and highlights the aspects related to legal aesthetics, the new legal dogmatics and legal comparison...

The essay, after introducing some legal-ethical principles of contract – self-responsibility, good faith and fairness –, focuses on the relationship between good faith and fairness in terms of the integration of contracts. It gives some hints on the traditional difference between good faith and fairness, and then presents the phenomenon of contamination between good faith and fairness, which originates above all from the German model of Treu und Glauben...

The seventieth anniversary of the German constitution, with the famous art. 1 which proclaims the inviolability of human dignity, constitutes an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and implications of the value of dignity in the constitutional systems of the post-Auschwitz period in the light of the most relevant international conventions...