Can You Think About Justice? Between Law Enforcement and Revenge, Detective’s Dilemmas in Noir Novel
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Luca Salvadori
Luca Salvadori is a lawyer and member of the Asti Bar since November 2004 and in 2008 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Comparative Law from the University of Palermo. Since 2003 he has been teaching assistant in Comparative Law and Public and Private Law at the University of Turin and at IULM University and, since 2021, became co-teacher in Public and Private Law at IULM University in Milan. His professional and research fields include Competition law, Sports law, Disability law, Family and children law.
Abstract
Justice has been an aspiration and, at the same time, a temptation for humans since the beginning. The tendency to resolve disputes in a simple and even brutal manner has been progressively replaced by the creation of a system of rules, useful to compress and eliminate the excesses of a restorative approach in a rebalancing function, often governed by revenge. Revengeful action, however, has remained in common perception as a more effective remedy than that provided by the norm and has continued to influence the actions of the servants of the law themselves. The figure of the “dirty” detective has become popular in noir literature, bringing with it all the suffering and uncertainty associated with the coexistence of justice and revenge as a means of restoring balance. A question lies behind the dilemmas of the servant of the law: does good or evil prevail in our society?
About the author
Luca Salvadori is a lawyer and member of the Asti Bar since November 2004 and in 2008 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Comparative Law from the University of Palermo. Since 2003 he has been teaching assistant in Comparative Law and Public and Private Law at the University of Turin and at IULM University and, since 2021, became co-teacher in Public and Private Law at IULM University in Milan. His professional and research fields include Competition law, Sports law, Disability law, Family and children law.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- FOCUS: Revenge and the Law
- Focus
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- The Theatre of Revenge: The Intrusion of Hamlet’s Shadow Between Drama and History
- “Avenging the Nation”. Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Deliverance in Trollope’s Palliser Novels
- Loyal to Whom? Friends, Spies, Revenge, and Our Man in Havana
- Can You Think About Justice? Between Law Enforcement and Revenge, Detective’s Dilemmas in Noir Novel
- Between Anger and Revenge: The Unpoetic Justice of “Counterparts”
- Hamlet and Pure Object Revenge – The Matter of Life and Death
- Research
- Resting her Case: “MeToo à la française” – Springora and Others
- Narratives of Justice: Legal Meaning, Literary Genres and Politics
- The Shadows of Sovereignty: A Visual Genealogy of Dark Knight Archetypes
- Book Review
- Paul Raffield: Shakespeare’s Strangers and English Law
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- FOCUS: Revenge and the Law
- Focus
- The Paradoxes of Sin: Vengeance as Death Drive in Janet Lewis’s The Wife of Martin Guerre
- The Theatre of Revenge: The Intrusion of Hamlet’s Shadow Between Drama and History
- “Avenging the Nation”. Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Deliverance in Trollope’s Palliser Novels
- Loyal to Whom? Friends, Spies, Revenge, and Our Man in Havana
- Can You Think About Justice? Between Law Enforcement and Revenge, Detective’s Dilemmas in Noir Novel
- Between Anger and Revenge: The Unpoetic Justice of “Counterparts”
- Hamlet and Pure Object Revenge – The Matter of Life and Death
- Research
- Resting her Case: “MeToo à la française” – Springora and Others
- Narratives of Justice: Legal Meaning, Literary Genres and Politics
- The Shadows of Sovereignty: A Visual Genealogy of Dark Knight Archetypes
- Book Review
- Paul Raffield: Shakespeare’s Strangers and English Law
