The corset Themis. The unprecedented demand for justice in our society

Abstract

The article gives an account of a social mutation of the first magnitude that we are witnesses: the crisis, desertion or loss of legitimacy of authority figures who until recently processed and were the answer the conflicts and demands of conviviality in their own society. These social magistrates have been replaced by judges who seem to be nowadays the only (maybe the latest) legitimated persons to meddle in other people's lives and respond to old and new social demands (individual and collective). Moreover, this appeal to the law and robed magistrates is not confined to pursue the resolution of private disputes, but it often changes into a strategic resource available to politicians and citizens. The former have discovered the Court as one new place for politics, while the latter are directed to justice not only for get that an deleterious experience will be recognized as one grievance, but also to satisfy a political claim: convene before a symbolic instance of a party leader or a senior official who seem not to be "responsible" more than the name already that, in fact, never have had to be accountable to anyone by his indifference for the law.