Articles Giuliani, A., Chapter “1500-1650”,” in A Companion to Western Legal Traditions, eds. R. Van Rhee, A. Masferrer and S. Donlan (Brill 2024) ISBN: 978-90-04-68725-7 Giuliani, A. “What is innovation in legal history? Gino Gorla and the rise of comparative legal history“ in MC Malaguti (ed.), Ricordando Gino Gorla (Rome, 2023) ISBN-13: 9788886449502 Giuliani, A., “Rethinking Emilio Betti, […]
Presumptions during the age of artificial proofs. 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
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I received my first legal education by 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 the Rhetoric, Politics and Ethics. Living at home meant
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
A research project on the history of legal history Above pictured is a session of the 1962 conference held in Todi (Italy) celebrating Bartolus’ sixth centenary. The event was inaugurated by the leading legal historian Francesco Calasso’s prolusion on “Bartolism”. A half century later (2013) came the next celebration. In that occasion I presented a