1. Personal Information
Date of birth: July 05, 1975
Nationality: Italian
Work address:
CIRSFID
University of Bologna
Via Galliera, 3
I-40121 Bologna
Italy
Phone: 00 39 051 277203
Fax: 00 39 051 260782
E-mail: corrado.roversi@unibo.it [mailto:corrado.roversi@unibo.it]
2. Current position
Lecturer in Legal philosophy at the Bologna University Faculty of law.
Currently teaching Legal philosophy (Filosofia del diritto), 1st-year, 1st-semester course for law students (60 hours).
3. Education
2013. Obtained the Italian abilitation to teach in the role of associate professor of legal philosophy.
2007. Completed a Ph.D. in legal philosophy (analytical philosophy and general jurisprudence) at the University of Milan, Italy.
2001. Degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna, Italy.
4. Teaching experience
Fall 2016. Professor of Philosophy of Law (in English), 1st-year, 1st-semester course for law students (60 hours) at the School of Law of the University of Bologna.
Since 2012. Professor of Legal philosophy (Filosofia del diritto, in Italian), 1st-year, 1st-semester course for law students (60 hours) at the School of Law of the University of Bologna.
Since 2013. (With A. Artosi) 20-hours module (in English) about “Legal Philosophy and Epistemology” at the International Erasmus Mundus PhD Course “Law, Science, and Technology,” coordinated by the University of Bologna (Prof. Monica Palmirani).
Fall 2015. Lectures (in English) in the course of Philosophy of Law held at the School of Law of the University of Bologna by Prof. Antonino Rotolo.
November 2016. Gave uder invitation a lecture in English on “Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality” within the course “Objectivity in Law and Morals” at the school of Political Science of the University of Bologna (coordinators: Prof. Giorgio Bongiovanni, Prof. Gustavo Gozzi).
4 November 2015. Gave uder invitation a lecture in English on “How to derive ‘Ought’ from ‘Is’: Speech-acts, social reality and collective intentionality” held within the course “Objectivity in Law and Morals” at the school of Political Science of the University of Bologna (coordinators: Prof. Giorgio Bongiovanni, Prof. Gustavo Gozzi).
27 February 2015. Gave under invitation a lecture (in Italian) titled “Acting within and outside an Institution: An Attempt at Shading the Distinction between Internal and External Point of View” (Agire dentro una istituzione: un tentativo di sfumare la distinzione tra punto di vista interno ed esterno) at the course in Legal Philosophy organized by Prof. A. Rossetti at the University of Milan “Bicocca”.
17 November 2014. Gave by invitation a lecture (in English) titled “Constitutive Rules between Formalism and Pragmatism” at the Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit de l’Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre.
21 May 2014. Gave under invitation a lecture (in Italian) titled “Institutional Mimesis and Conceptual Metaphors” (Mimesi istituzionale e metafore concettuali) at the course in Legal Philosophy organized by Prof. A. Rossetti at the University of Milan “Bicocca”.
2012. Gave under invitation a lecture (in English) titled “Constitutive Rules and Institutional Mimesis” at the course on Legal Ontology organized by Prof. P. Di Lucia at the University of Milan.
2011. 30-hours module (in Italian) in the Legal Philosophy course held at the School of Political science of the Università di Bologna by Prof. Giorgio Bongiovanni within a curriculum on “Human Rights and International Cooperation” (COSDI).
2009-2010. 20-hours module (in Italian) on constitutive rules and on “Law and truth” in the Legal theory course held at the School of Law of the University of Bologna by Prof. Giorgio Bongiovanni.
2005-2010. Lectures (in Italian) on “Etiche del discorso” (Discourse ethics) and “Etiche kantiane” (Kantian ethics) in seminars about Ethics ad objectivity organized by Prof. C. Faralli at the School of law of the University of Bologna.
2005-2011. Lectures (in Italian) in the Legal Philosophy course held at the School of Law of the University of Bologna by Prof. Enrico Pattaro.
2004. Gave a lecture (in Italian) on “Il modello della democrazia costituzionale: la proposta di Ronald Dworkin” (Dworkin’s model of constitutional democracy) at the seminar titled “Democrazia e costituzionalismo nei sistemi giuridico-politici contemporanei” (Constitutionalism and democracy in contemporary legal and political systems), organized by Prof. G. Bongiovanni at the University of Bologna.
2004. Gave a lecture (in Italian) on “Il realismo politico” (Political realism) at the seminar titled “Il realismo nel pensiero giuridico e politico del Novecento” (Realism in 20th-century legal and political thought), organized by Prof. C. Faralli at the University of Bologna.
5. Research Interests
Research interests include the study of social and legal ontology, legal epistemology, the theory of argumentation, and the philosophy of normative language. Currently focusing on the concept of constitutive rules, the birth and genealogy of institutions, and normatively constituted concepts.
6. Research Projects, Networks, Associations, and other Positions
Since 2015. Secretary of the international PhD Programme Erasmus Mundus Law, Science, and Technology (Partners: University of Bologna; University of Turin; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spagna; University of Tilburg, Olanda; University of Luxembourg; Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania).
Since 2013. Member of the research group on “Mortality salience, law abidance, and social and economic behaviour: Theoretical models and experimental methods”, within the FARB Programme of the University of Bologna.
Since 2012. Member of the teaching staff of the international PhD Programme Erasmus Mundus Law, Science, and Technology (Partners: University of Bologna; University of Turin; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spagna; University of Tilburg, Olanda; University of Luxembourg; Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania).
2011-2012. Member of the teaching staff of the PhD Programme Law and New Technologies (University of Bologna).
Since 2011. Member of European Network of Social Ontology (ENSO).
2005. Served as member of the Bologna research group on “Dynamics of Knowledge in the Information-and-Communication Society,” a national research project supported by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research.
Since 2004. Member of the Italian Society of Legal Philosophy and hence of the IVR – Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie.
2003. Served as member of the Bologna research group on “Bioethics, Law, and Rights,” a national research project supported by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research.
2003. Served as member of the Bologna research group on “Agents’ society, institutions, and law. Logico-philosophical Perspectives”, a research project coordinated by Dr. Antonino Rotolo.
7. Editorships and Editorial Boards
2016. Served as referee for the journal Revus: Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law.
2014. Co-editor (along with C. Faralli and S. Zullo) of the special issue 2014 on “Diritto e neuroscienze” (Law and neurosciences) of the journal Rivista di Filosofia del diritto (Journal of Legal Philosophy).
2014. Served as referee for the journal Phenomenology and Mind.
2014. Served as referee for the journal Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica.
2012. Served as referee for the journal Jurisprudence.
Since 2011. Member of the Editorial Committee of the Series Nomologica, directed by A. G. Conte and P. Di Lucia, Milan, LED Publisher.
Since 2010. Assistant editor of Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. Oxford: Blackwell.
Since 2009. Co-editor (along with E. Pattaro) of Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World. Vol. 12 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer). 2016.
2005. As assistant editor, completed work on The Law and the Right: A Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to Be, written by E. Pattaro and published as volume 1 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer).
8. Talks and Conferences
18 November, 2016. Organized the seminar “Certainty beyond a Reasonable Doubt?”, held by G. Tuzet (Bocconi University, Milan). CIRSFID – Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna.
16 September, 2016. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled “Society and Nature: From Kelsen to the embodied cognition” (Società e natura: da Kelsen all’embodied cognition, in Italian) at the 30th Meeting of the Italian Society for Legal Philosophy, Law Faculty of the University of Salento, Lecce (Italy).
13 June, 2016. Organized the seminar “The Concept of Normativity”, held by B. Brozek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków). CIRSFID – Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna.
18 May, 2016. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled Costituire imitando: artefatti giuridici mimetici (To Constitute by Imitation: Mimetic Legal Artefacts) as part of the workshop Oltre la costitutività (Beyond Constitutiveness), held at the University of Milan “Bicocca”.
28 April, 2016. Organized the seminar “Realismo giuridico tra ontologia del diritto e teoria della decisione giudiziale” (Legal Realism between Legal Ontology and Theories of Judicial Decisions, in Italian), with talks by E. Pattaro (University of Bologna), P. Brunet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) and E. Fittipaldi (University of Milano). CIRSFID – Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna.
9 February, 2016. Presented a paper titled “Arguments for an Artefact Theory of Law” at the workshop On Debate of the Master in Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy, and discussed it with Frederick Schauer and Luka Burazin.
25 September, 2015. Presented a paper titled “Institutional Mimesis as a Historical Determinant of Collective Acceptance” (accepted after peer review) at the 4th International Conference of the European Network of Social Ontology, held in Palermo (Italy).
31 July, 2015. Presented, along with Gerald Postema, Volume 12 of the Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence titled Legal Philosophy in the 20th Century: The Civil Law World at the 2015 IVR World Congress, held in Washington D.C. (USA) under the title Law, Reason, and Emotion.
28 July, 2015. Gave by invitation a talk titled “Conceptual Metaphors behind Legal Artifacts” as part of the special workshop Artifact or Practice? An Ontology to Explain Law’s Normative Power, organized for the 2015 IVR World Congress, held in Washington D.C. (USA) under the title Law, Reason, and Emotion.
16 June, 2015. Gave by invitation a talk titled “Institutional Mimesis and Conceptual Blending” at the conference Reason and Emotion in Law and Morality, held at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow.
11 December, 2014. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled “Conceptual Blending and the Constitution of Institutional Concepts” (Conceptual Blending e costituzione dei concetti istituzionali) at the conference Diritto e linguaggio: il prestito semantico tra le lingue naturali e i diritti vigenti in una prospettiva filosofico- sociologica e informatico-giuridica, held at the University of Milan (Italy).
19 September, 2014. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled “Law and Nature: A Conceptual Metaphor?” (Diritto e natura: una metafora concettuale?) at the Workshop on Law and Neuroscience held within the 29th Meeting of the Italian Society for Legal Philosophy, Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy).
18-20 September, 2014. Member of the Organizing Committee of the 29th Meeting of the Italian Society for Legal Philosophy, held at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy).
12 May, 2014. Discussion of J. R. Searle, “How to Derive ‘Ought’ from ‘Is’ Revisited” at the conference Ontology of Deontics: The ‘Isness’ of Ought, held at the University of Milan (Italy).
6 October, 2013. Gave by invitation a talk titled “On Legal Artifacts” at the Workshop Artifact Theory of Law, held at the University of Bergamo (Italy).
11 July, 2013. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled “Mimetic Impossibility” at the Conference Nomologics 2: Normative Impossibility, held at the University of Pavia (Italy).
7 June, 2013. Presented by invitation a paper (in English) titled “Five Kinds of Perspectives on Legal Institutions” at the Albert Calsamiglia Seminar titled “Encuentro UPF – Università di Bologna”, held at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.
13 April, 2013. Presented by invitation a paper titled “Mimetic Law (vs Natural Law): A Philosophical Problem Turned into a Historical One” (accepted after peer review) at the 2013 UK IVR Annual Conference titled “Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue?”, held at the Queen’s Mary University of London.
12 December, 2012. Gave by invitation a talk titled “Collective Intentionality in Social Ontology” at the Max Weber Roundtable on Liability, held at the European University Institute (Fiesole, Florence, Italy).
29 November, 2012. Gave by invitation, along with A. Rotolo, a talk titled “Interpreting Legal Concepts as Systems of Constitutive Rules” at the seminar Disputationes Triangulae IV, University of Antwerp.
13 November, 2012. Gave by invitation a talk titled “Mimesis in Social Ontology” at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow.
5-6 July, 2012. Presented by invitation a paper titled “Five Kinds of Perspectives on Legal Institutions” (accepted after peer review) at the First PERSP Legal Philosophy Workshop, Cambridge, Faculty of Law.
25-26 June, 2012. Presented, along with L. Tummolini and A. Borghi, a poster titled “Social Objects in Mind: An Experimental Study on Social Concepts” at the Conference Objects in Mind – First Aarhus-Paris Conference in Social Ontology and Cognition, University of Aarhus, Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience.
9 November, 2011. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled “Institutions and Artifacts” (Istituzioni e artefatti) at the Seminar of Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy of the Bocconi University, Milan.
21-23 September, 2011. Presented a paper titled “Kinds of Institutional Concept” (accepted after peer review) at the International Conference of the European Network of Social Ontology, held in Rome (Italy) under the title Social Ontology: Metaphysical and Empirical Perspectives.
15-20 August, 2011. Gave by invitation, along with A. Rotolo, a talk titled “Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation: The Case of Extensive and Restrictive Interpretation,” as part of a special workshop on legal argumentation organized for the 2011 IVR World Congress, held in Frankfurt (Germany) under the title Law, Science, and Technology.
14-16 July, 2011. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled “Mimetic Eidetic-Constitutive Rules” at the Conference Nomologics 1: The Value of Truth and the Truth of Value, held at the University of Pavia (Italy).
June 7-9, 2011. Paper accepted after peer review at the International Conference Making the Social World, held at the University “San Raffaele” of Milan (Italy). (I was not able to present the paper due to health reasons.)
May 23, 2011. Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference Law and Morality: The Perspective of Michael Moore, held at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy), with speeches by Michael Moore, David Brink, Wojciech Sadurski, Nicos Stavropoulos, Matthew Kramer.
May 12, 2011. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled "Idealtypes for a Phenomenology of Games" (Idealtipi per una fenomenologia ludica) at the Conference The Norm as Form of Reality (La norma come forma della realtà), held at the Law Faculty of the University of Cagliari (Italy).
November 12, 2010. Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference Law and Morality: The Philosophy of Robert Alexy, held at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy), with speeches by Robert Alexy, Dennis Patterson, George Pavlakos, José Moreso, Mattias Kumm.
May 21, 2010. Gave by invitation a talk titled “Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation: The Case of Extensive and Restrictive Interpretation” at the Conference Legal Reasoning and European Laws: The Perspective of Neil MacCormick, held at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
October 16, 2009. Gave by invitation a talk (in Italian) titled "On the Technical Aspect of Constitutive Rules" (Sull'aspetto tecnico delle regole costitutive) at the Conference The Problem of Technical Norms (Il problema delle regole tecniche), held at the Law Faculty of the University of Cagliari (Italy).
May 12–13, 2008. Gave, along with A. Rotolo and C. Valentini, a talk titled “The Grammar of Social Practices: From Cooperation to Morality” at the Conference Inclusive Legal Positivism and Beyond: The Perspective of Jules Coleman held at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy).
May 12-13, 2008. Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference Inclusive Legal Positivism and Beyond: The Perspective of Jules Coleman, held at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Italy), with speeches by Jules Coleman, Scott Shapiro, Stephen Perry, Kenneth Himma, Vittorio Villa, Raymond Wacks, Nicos Stavropulous, Cristopher Kutz, Matthew N. Smith, José Moreso, Giovanni Sartor, George Pavlakos, Damiano Canale, Christian Dahlmann.
August 2007. Gave by invitation, along with A. Rotolo, a talk titled “On the Argumentative Role of Performative Contradictions,” as part of a special workshop on legal argumentation organized for the 2007 IVR World Congress, held in Cracow (Poland) under the title Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversity and Unity.
October 5–6, 2006. Gave by invitation, along with A. Rotolo and G. Bongiovanni, a talk titled “Inferentialism, Social Practices, and the Connection between Law and Morality,” at the Conference Rules of Inference: Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy, a meeting held in Milan at the Università Bocconi.
July 24, 2006. Gave by invitation, along with A. Rotolo and G. Bongiovanni, a talk titled “The Grammar of Social Practices: From Cooperation to Morality” at the Doktoratenseminar chaired by Prof. Robert Alexy and held at the Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel.
November 2005. Gave by invitation a talk titled “Constitutionalism and Transcendental Arguments” at the Doktoratenseminar chaired by Prof. Robert Alexy and held at the Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel.
May 2005. Gave a talk titled “Constitutionalism and Moral Foundationalism,” as part of a working group on legal argumentation organized for the 2005 IVR World Congress, held in Granada (Spain) under the title Derecho y Justicia en una Sociedad Global (Law and Justice in a Global Society).
9. Publications
2016. Norme giuridiche (Legal Norms). In Argomenti di teoria del diritto, 14–44. Ed. C. Faralli. Turin: Giappichelli.
2016. Intenzionalità collettiva e realtà del diritto (Collective Intentionality and Legal Reality). In Che cosa è il diritto: ontologie e concezioni del giuridico, 255–94. Ed. G. Bongiovanni, G. Pino e C. Roversi. Turin: Giappichelli.
2016. (Edited, along with G. Bongiovanni and G. Pino). Che cosa è il diritto: ontologie e concezioni del giuridico (What Law Is: Ontologies and Conceptions of Legality). Turin: Giappichelli.
2016. Legal Metaphoric Artefacts. In The Emergence of Normative Orders, 215–80. Ed. J. Stelmach, B. Brozek, Ƚ. Kurek. Kraków: Copernicus Center Press.
2016. (Edited, along with E. Pattaro) Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World. Tome 2: Main Orientations and Topics. Vol. 12.2 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence. Berlin: Springer.
2016. (Edited, along with E. Pattaro) Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World. Tome 1: Language Areas. Vol. 12.1 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence. Berlin: Springer.
2016. Mimesi istituzionale come integrazione concettuale: una interpretazione del prestito semantico nel contesto giuridico (Institutional Mimesis as Conceptual Integration: An Interpretation of Semantic Loan in the Legal Context). In Diritto e linguaggio: il prestito semantico tra le lingue naturali e i diritti vigenti in una prospettiva filosofico e informatico-giuridica, 109–27. Ed. P. Perri and S. Zorzetto. Pisa: ETS.
2016. Institutional Mimesis and Mimetic Normative Impossibility. In L’impossibilità normativa. Atti del Seminario internazionale Nomologics 2. Pavia, Collegio Golgi, 10-11 luglio 2013, 105–24 (Normative Impossibility. Proceedings of the International Workshop Nomologics 2, held at the Collegio Golgi, University of Pavia, July 10-11). Ed. P. Di Lucia and S. Colloca. Milan: LED.
2015. Internality of Actions and of Points of View: Reply to Buekens, Bauwens, and Cossaer. Methode 6: 222–31.
2015. Acting within and Outside an Institution. Methode 6: 191–212.
2015. How Social Institutions Can Imitate Nature. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy. Online first at DOI DOI 10.1007/s11245-015-9300-0
2014. (Edited, along with C. Faralli and S. Zullo) Diritto e Neuroscienze (On Law and Neuroscience). Special issue 2014 of Rivista di Filosofia del diritto (Italian Journal for Legal Philosophy).
2014. Conceptualizing Institutions. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (1): 201–15.
2013. A Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts (co-authored with A. Borghi and L. Tummolini). Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4 (3): 527–42.
2012. Sulla duplicità del costitutivo (On the Dual Nature of Constitutive Rules). In Ontologia e analisi del diritto: Scritti per Gaetano Carcaterra. Eds D. Cananzi and R. Righi, 1251-95. Milan: Giuffré.
2012. Regole del gioco e senso di gioco (translation of H. Schwyzer, 1969. Rules and Practices. The Philosophical Review 78: 451-67 [pp. 456-9 e pp. 463-6]). In Filosofie della norma. Eds. G. Lorini and L. Passerini Glazel, 165–72. Turin: Giappichelli.
2012. Acceptance Is Not Enough, but Texts Alone Achieve Nothing: A Critique of Two Conceptions on Institutional Ontology. Rechtstheorie 43: 177-206.
2012. Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation: The Case of Extensive and Restrictive Interpretation (coauthored with A. Rotolo). In Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives, eds. C. Dahlmann and E. Feteris, 163-88. Berlin: Springer.
2012. Mimetic Constitutive Rules. Phenomenology and Mind 2: 144-51.
2012. Sul mimetismo istituzionale (On Institutional Mimesis). Sociologia del diritto 2: 35-50.
2012. Costituire. Uno studio di ontologia giuridica (To Constitute. A Study in Legal Ontology). Turin: Giappichelli.
2011. Regolare e costituire. Sul carattere tecnico delle regole costitutive (To Regulate and to Constitute. On the Technical Nature of Constitutive Rules). Analisi e diritto: 269–93.
2011. On Constitutive Normativity. In New Essays on the Normativity of Law. Ed. by G. Pavlakos and S. Bertea, 281–309 (Oxford: Hart Publishing).
2010. Constitutive Rules in Context. Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 96: 223-38.
2010. Sulla funzione fondazionale della contraddizione performativa (On the Foundationalist Function of Performative Contradiction). In La contradizion che nol consente. Forme del sapere e valore del principio di non contraddizione. Ed. F. Puppo, 223-251. Milano: Franco Angeli.
2010. Costituzione dell’antinomia. Riflessioni a margine di Autoriferimento e antinomia nell’ordinamento giuridico, di Stefano Colloca (The Constitution of Antinomy. Reflections on Stefano Colloca’s Self-reference and Antinomy in the Legal System). Rivista internazionale di filosofia del diritto 87: 123-36.
2009. Inferentialism, Social Practices, and the Connection between Law and Morality (coauthored with G. Bongiovanni and A. Rotolo). In The Rules of Inference. Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy. Eds. D. Canale and G. Tuzet, 45-72. Milano: EGEA.
2009. Performative Contradictions and Norm-enactment (coauthored with A. Rotolo). Ratio Juris 22: 455-82.
2009. The Structure of Social Practices and the Connection between Law and Morality (coauthored with G. Bongiovanni, A. Rotolo, C. Valentini). Ratio Juris 22: 1-23.
2008. Regole e autonomia. Sulla proposta universalista di George Pavlakos (Rules and Autonomy: On George Pavlakos’s Universalist Conception). In Diritti umani: trasformazioni e reazioni. Ed. by S. Vida, 109-127. Bologna: Bononia University Press.
2008. Constitutionalism and Transcendental Arguments. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 59: 109–24.
2007. Pragmatica delle regole costitutive. Bologna: GEDIT.
2007. Etiche del discorso: oggettività e fondazione (Discourse Ethics: Objectivity and Foundation). In Oggettività e morale. La riflessione etica del Novecento. Ed by G. Bongiovanni, 237–256. Milan: Bruno Mondadori.
2007. The Claim to Correctness and Inferentialism: Alexy’s Theory of Practical Reason Reconsidered (coauthored with G. Bongiovanni and A. Rotolo). In Law, Rights and Discourse. Ed. by G. Pavlakos, 275–300. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
2006. La costituzione della costitutività. Per una critica delle regola eidetico-costitutive (The Constitution of Constitutiveness: Toward a Critique of Eidetic-Constitutive Rules). Ph.D. thesis in philosophy of law (analytical philosophy and general jurisprudence) at the University of Milan, under the tutorship of A. G. Conte and G. Bongiovanni.
2006. Costituzionalismo e Fondazionalismo Morale (Constitutionalism and Moral Foundationalism). Ragion Pratica 26: 265–95.
2003. Legal Philosophical Library: (A) Passato (Documentazione on line), (B) Presente (Panorama generale), (C) Futuro (Una rete mondiale per la filosofia del diritto). In Vecchie e nuove sfide per la filosofia del diritto, Vol. 3, Multiculturalismo e bioetica. Ed. by A. Artosi and A. Verza, , 245–50. Bologna: GEDIT.
2003. Bibliografia degli scritti di e su Leon Duguit (A Leon Duguit Bibliography: Writings by and about Him). In Leon Duguit: Transformations of the State — An Anthology. Ed. by A. Barbera, C. Faralli, and M. Panarari. Turin: Giappichelli.
2003. Bibliografia degli scritti di e su John Rawls (A John Rawls Bibliography: Writings by and about Him). In “The Realistic Utopia of Justice: A Farewell to John Rawls,” by E. Pattaro and A. Verza, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia del Diritto 80 (2003): 137ff.
