In order to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of judicialization of life we experience today, this reflection goes along the lines set out by Michel Foucault through the trajectories of a genealogy of legal practices in the West. Such genealogy of legal practices, distinct from the traditional approaches of Legal Histories, shows the historical developmxnt of procedures for "evidence", "investigation" and "examination", which are fundamental for the exercise of law in our societies. From this perspective, it shows their shaping in ancient Greek Law - different from those applied in Roman Law, which in turn are different to those employed in ancient German Law - and then demonstrates their relations with the Inquisition, their transition to modern justice apparatus monopolized by the State, as well as their widespread incorporation in many social practices throughout modernity, which refers to the very conditions of possibility of judicialization of contemporary life.
M. Foucault; genealogy of legal practices; judicialization of life