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Legal Theory and Method

Legal form, validity, method and decision-making.


Topics

Theory and legal doctrine

The relationship between theoretical construction and legal doctrine, with particular attention to the early Kelsen and public law.

Legal method

Legal argumentation, judicial decision-making and formal or computational models of legal reasoning.

History of legal thought

Legal history as a way to reconstruct assumptions and conceptual alternatives.

Publications

  • La finzione della forma (The Fiction of Form, 2025)
  • La storia infinita (The Never-Ending Story, 2025)
  • Le sette vite del possesso di Savigny (The Seven Lives of Savigny’s Possession, 2018)
  • To Copy or to Learn from the Past? (2020)

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