Legge-provvedimento e difetto assoluto di giurisdizione per il giudice amministrativo. Il diritto di difesa nel sistema delle leggi- provvedimento tra orientamenti dottrinali e giurisprudenziali

Abstract

The Italian Administrative Supreme Court, in a recent ruling (No. 2409/2021, Chamber 4), has taken pain to analyse the judicial protection afforded to claimants in the micro-system of the so called administrative-laws. The dictum, in confirming the verdict of the first instance administrative Tribunal, namely the Calabria TAR (Catanzaro), lays down the principle of the absolute lack of jurisdiction of any administrative Court in relation to challenges of administrative acts endowed with legislative effectiveness (the "administrative laws" or "administrative decree-laws"). Against this background, the contribution discusses the peculiar Italian concept of administrative-laws also via the lenses of the legal history, to highlight the multifarious issues engendered by this "genre" of legislative instrument. Ultimately, the outcome of this perusal is that the right of defence vis-à-vis Courts results in being the major conundrum in the complex area of administrative-laws.