Reasonableness

1 Reasonableness is used as a legal standard to assess different phenomena under the law, including, in constitutional law, legislation. As such, it requires compliance with criteria of logical and teleological coherence, as well as ponderation of principles and circumstances. 2 The role played by reasonableness within the legal field springs from the demand that all activities carried out under the law necessarily conjugate ‘normative reasons with concrete needs’, entailing a quest for a ‘practical equilibrium’ between ‘different normative possibilities, measures...