This book contains the first English translations of Santi Romano's important essays 'On the decree laws and the state of siege during the earthquakes in Messina and Reggio Calabria' (1909) and 'The Modern State and its Crisis' (1910).

Mariano Croce is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy.

Santi Romano before legal institutionalism: The order above and beyond positive law 1. On the Decree Laws and the State of Siege During the Earthquakes in Messina and Reggio Calabria 2. The Modern State and its Crisis