The Uncertainty of Will. A Conversation with Professor Lorenzo Zucca (King's College London)

 The Uncertainty of Will. A Discussion with Professor Lorenzo Zucca (King's College London).

ABSTRACT:
This interview, hosted by Linda Cianci (Lindagine), with Professor Lorenzo Zucca, full professor in Costitutional Law and Philosophy at King's College London, delves into his academic work in progress: "The Uncertainty of Will".  The discussion traverses foundational questions in legal philosophy, including the relationship between law and morality, power and knowledge, the fragility of institutional legitimacy, and the epistemic crises that underlie constitutional conflict. Drawing from the traditions of poetic wisdom (Giambattista Vico), value pluralism and tragic dramaturgy, Professor Zucca argues for the role of literature in shaping legal consciousness. Particular attention is given to how the Bard’s plays—such as The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus—reveal tensions between justice and mercy, power and legitimacy, and religion and law. Finally, the interview considers the role of uncertainty not as a limitation, but as a condition and resource for institutional renewal and human transformation and progression and it defends a pluralistic conception of justice and argues for the necessity of ethical imagination in legal interpretation and institutional design and constructions.

KEYWORDS:
Legal philosophy, Law, Philosophy, Will, Uncertainty, Law, Morality, Rights, Justice, Literature, Shakespeare, Poetic Justice, Poetic Wisdom

Full audio interview on "The Lindagine Podcast" 

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