Responsabilità come ri-politicizzazione interna: attori collettivi e processi sociali alla luce di una lettura del post-moderno

The paper discusses the impact of globalization and transnationalization processes on the concept of responsibility, as elaborated by modern legal tradition, in turn linking it to th ose of politicization and constitutionalization. It starts from the insight that a legal system can be considered as constitutionalized only if extra institutional collective actors and functionally differentiated socialprocesses establish in their internal operations forms of “ecological” responsibility, thus building their own iternal politicization(s). In this regard, it is recalled that only in this way XX century’s constitutions gained actual effectiveness in extra institutional social spheres. For the same reasons, by letting collective actors avoi d responsibility, globalization and transnazionalization weakened their internal politicization, with an overall de constitutionalizing effect. In order to rebuild an internal politicization of collective actors, legal theory must reframe the concept of r esponsibility taking into account the social realities of post modernity This postmodern framework should shape legal responsibility with a view at strengthening both the openness and the obligation to the internal politicization by social actors. In such a scenario the law of responsibility should aim at sanctioning unlimited social processes and actors, as well as potentiating the social impulses coming from civil society. The paper finally discusses two case studies, namely Kasky v. Nike and Bruker v. Markovitz, in order to highlight the applications and outcomes of the proposed theoretical framework.