Trust in the Law. A perpetual center of gravity

Abstract

This article is part of the monographic section "Derecho y confianza”

Within the framework of the debate raised by Tommaso Greco’s latest book, this reflection focuses on the double meaning evoked in the title of that work: trust in the law and the role that trust plays within it. Faced with the dominant anthropological-legal perspective – that is based on mistrust, suspicion, and fear – we address an alternative paradigm that is based on the need to trust the other and the establishment of cooperative ties, and whose core lies in a deep sense of responsibility, commitment, and solidarity. Reliability and loyalty appear throughout this brief dialogue with the author as internal and even constitutive elements of law and, therefore, something like its “perpetual center of gravity”.