1. Personal Information
Nationality: Italian
Date of Birth: September 12, 1956
Disabled from September 2023 due to respiratory problems
Affiliation
Department of Legal Studies (Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche)
University of Bologna
Via Zamboni, 27/29
I-40126 Bologna - Italy
and
Alma AI - CIRSFID
University of Bologna
Via Galliera, 3
I-40121 Bologna - Italy
Address
c/o Alma AI - CIRSFID
2. CV in Detail
2.1. Education
1993-1995: Postdoctoral research position at the University of Bologna.
1991: Ph.D. in the History of Political Institutions and of Political Thought, University of Turin.
1990-91: CNR research grant, University of Vienna.
1985: Graduated in Political Science, University of Bologna, Summa cum laude.
2.2. Academic Position
Full professor of Philosophy of law (GIUR-17/A)
2.3. Courses Taught
School of Law
Philosophy of law (2002-2021)
Theory of law and Interpretation/Theory of law and justice (2006-2021)
no courses in 2022 and 2023 due to illness
online module of Theory of Law and Justice (2024)
online module of Philosophy of Law (2024)
School of Political Science
Philosophy of law/Theories of justice and development policies (2010-2021)
Multiculturalism and cultural relativism (2017/2021)
2.4. Research
2.4.1. General Research Interests
Philosophy of law, constitutional theory, legal theory, metaethics and normative ethics, the theory of legal interpretation, the foundations of practical reason, the history of legal theory and philosophy, and the history and philosophy of politics.
2.4.2. Current Research
1) Crisis of constitutional democracies, globalization and law
2) Law, democracy and constitutional review
3) Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
4) Law as artefact and normativity
2.4.3. National Research Projects
2022- Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “EQUAL (EQUitable Algorithms)— Promoting Fairness and Countering Algorithmic Discrimination through Norms and AI”, coordinated by Prof. F. Lagioia of the University of Bologna
2021-2024: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “About the origin. Identity, authenticity and contradictions of food”, coordinated by Prof. F. Briguglio of the University of Bologna
2005-2007: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Tutela dei diritti e sicurezza: Profili storici, filosofico-giuridici, politici e bioetici”, coordinated by Prof. C. Faralli of the University of Bologna.
2005-2007: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Tutela dei diritti e sicurezza: Profili storici, filosofico-giuridici, politici e bioetici”, coordinated by Prof. C. Faralli of the University of Bologna.
2000-2002: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Biblioteca filosofico-giuridica: (A) Passato (documentazione on line), (B) Presente (panorama generale e nuovi problemi del costituzionalismo), e (C) futuro (una rete mondiale per la filosofia del diritto)”, coordinated by Prof. C. Faralli of the University of Bologna.
1999-2000: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “La Filosofia del diritto dei giuristi”, coordinated by Prof. Carla Faralli of the University of Bologna.
1997-1999: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Problemi della produzione e della attuazione normative”, coordinated by Prof. E. Pattaro of the University of Bologna.
1993-1995: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Sfide al diritto alla fine del XX secolo”, coordinated by Prof. E. Pattaro of the University of Bologna.
1991-1993: Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Università e Scienza nel sistema politico dellItalia unita: Modelli teorici e assetti istituzionali”, coordinated by Prof. P. Schiera of the University of Trento.
1987-1990. Member of the research group assigned to the national research project “Costituzioni Europee e Scienza politica italiana (XVII-XX secolo)”, coordinated by Prof. A. Mazzacane of the University of Naples.
2.4.4. A Selection of Invited Talks
July 18-21, 2017. Took part in the IVR (International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy )World Congress, Lisbon, Portugal.
October 23, 2015. workshop “Insidie del linguaggio giuridico e interpretazione normativa nell'applicazione del Diritto Penale (Pitfalls of legal language and legal interpretation in the application of criminal law)”, organized by the School of Law of the University of Bologna.
January 13, 2014. Took part in the workshop “Immaginare democrazia. Costituzione, conflitti, poteri (Imagining democracy. Constitution, conflicts, powers)”, organizad by Laboratorio Hans Kelsen of the University of Salerno.
June 5, 2013. Took part in the Albert Calsamiglia Seminar, organized by Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Gave a talk titled "Global Constitutionalism and Theory of Law."
February 5, 2013. Took part in the workshop "The value of precedent on the shifting boundary between the legislative and the judiciary", organized by SPISA in Bologna Gave a talk (with G. Sartor) titled "Stare decisis, filosofia del diritto e interpretazione del precedente giudiziale (Stare decisis, philosophy of law and judicial interpretation of the judicial precedent."
May 21, 2010. Took part in the international workshop "Legal Reasoning and European Laws: The Perspective of Neil MacCormick", organized by the European University Institute in Fiesole. Gave a talk (with A. Rotolo and C. Roversi) titled "Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation".
November 16-17, 2007: Took part in the international workshop Reasonableness and Law, organized by the Law Department of the European University Institute in Fiesole. Gave a talk (with C. Valentini) titled “A Family Quarrel? Rawls and Habermas on Moral and Political Reasonableness”.
March 16, 2007: Took part in the seminar “50 anni di Europa: L'impatto del diritto dell'Unione Europea sullo studio delle discipline giuridiche”, Bologna University Law School. Gave a lecture titled “L'impatto del diritto dell'Unione Europea sullo studio della filosofia del diritto”.
October 5-6, 2006: Took part in the international seminar “The Rules of Inference: Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy”, organized by the Comparative Law Institute of the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. Gave a talk (with A. Rotolo and C. Roversi) titled “Inferentialism, Social Practices, and the Connection between Law and Morality”.
July 25-28, 2006: Took part in a Doktorantenkolloquium organized by the Christian-Albrechts Universität in Kiel (Juristisches Seminar, Prof. R. Alexy). Gave a talk (with A. Rotolo and C. Roversi) titled “The Grammar of Social Practices: From Cooperation to Morality”.
April 18-20, 2006: Took part in the 2nd National Congress of SISDIC (Società italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile), organized in Capri under the title “I rapporti civilistici nell'interpretazione della Corte costituzionale”. Gave a talk titled “Argomentazione costituzionale e teoria politica”.
February 2, 2006: Took part in a doctoral seminar titled “Assetti costituzionali contemporanei e concezioni del diritto”, organized by the University of Turin Law Department.
November 10-11, 2005: Took part in a Doktorantenkolloquium organized by the Christian-Albrechts Universität in Kiel (Juristisches Seminar, Prof. R. Alexy). Gave a talk (with A. Rotolo and C. Roversi) titled “The Claim to Correctness and Inferentialism: Alexys Theory of Practical Reason Reconsidered”.
2.4.5. Positions Held as Editor
Editor in Chief (with G. Gozzi, A. Furia) of the series “Democrazie, Diritti, Costituzioni (Democracies, Rights, Constitutions), Il Mulino Publisher, Bologna.
Member of the Steering Committee of the series “Ethos-Nomos”, Giappichelli Publisher, Turin.
Associate editor of Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Oxford: Backwell).
Member of the Board of Directors of the Journal “Athena. Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization”, https://athena.unibo.it/
