Standing to sue and zones of interest

Abstract

The present text analyses the problems presented by the tradicional model of standing to sue in civil law tradition, criticizing all its formulations, whether they are more attached to private standards or to extreme public-interest-oriented views that despise the free will of the parties and the legitimate strategies permitted by the procedural system. The zones of interest come as an alternative, frequent in common law practice, that could allow procedural participation whenever the objective is some value or goal that is worth beeing protected.