«Qui occidit se defendendo non dicitur occidere». L’omicidio a difesa della propria persona al banco di prova dei valori cristiani tra responsabilità ex facto e principio di volontarietà. Brevi riflessioni,

In the Western legal tradition, the construction of the concept of self-defense has encountered openings and resistances, deeply linked to the universe of Christian moral and ethics with which the conviction, belonging to Roman law, openly clashes, that the use of violence to defend oneself must be justified themselves or their own things. The principle of vim vi repellere licet is revised by medieval jurists who construct a new and different figure of murder in self-defense.