Publications are available for download from my SSRN page. Forthcoming Giuliani, A., Past, pastness and the broad present: changing images of time in legal history, in eds. S. Zorzetto, P. de Lucia, P. Heritier, and P. Silvestri, Law and Spatio-Temporal Dimensions: Investigating the Boundaries of Normativity, Springer (2026) Articles Giuliani, A., Knowing Through Maxims, in […]
Sixteenth-century presumption theory. A study of Jacopo Menochio’s De praesumptionibus (1587) Based exclusively on primary sources, this study charts the reformulation of judicial proof in the late 16th c. following the introduction of the dualism of artificial/inartificial proofs in Jacopo Menochio’s treatise De praesumptionibus (1587). This study is a textual analysis of the theoretical section
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My academic research is based on an unusual background. I received my first legal education from my father, the legal philosopher Alessandro Giuliani (1925-1997). He lived accompanied by his insightful (and in academia still influential) logo-centric idea of the law which he based on the ‘other Aristotle’, the author not of the Organon, but of
Delighted to give a talk on the legal philosopher Alessandro Giuliani (my father) for the seminar series ‘Masters of the 19th century‘ . The title was “The antiformalism of Alessandro Giuliani (1925-1997): past, present and future” (in Italian).
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A colloquium was held at Helsinki on 16th Sept 2019 to discuss some main features of the InfoLaw project. Please follow the link for more details.
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Law as Information: Expanding on an unfinished side of Patrick Glenn’s theory of legal traditions Synopsis A massive attention is focused today on the sweeping effects of information technology on the law. According to its supporters this is ‘a disruptive technology’ that is leading to radical and sweeping changes which will be impacting on the
Changing images of the legal past Legal philosophy’s influence on the writing of legal history A research project on the history of legal history Above is a session of the conference held in Todi, Italy in 1962 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Bartolus de Saxoferrato. The event was opened by the leading Italian legal
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