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Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies

Philosophy of law

Philosophy of law is a field of practical philosophy. In this perspective this research area deals with normative, deontological, historical and ethical-political dimensions of law.

It focuses on social violence, with particular regard to its roots, control, and overcoming. Human rights and violation of human rights, evil as a moral problem, mind-body problem, violence against children: these are crucial issues which are analyzed from a theoretical and practical point of view with classics of philosophy in the background.

Starting from an idea of bioethics as practical argumentation for a democratic public sphere, this area of research focuses on the main bioethics issues understood as a sub-field of philosophy of law.

People

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Luca Baldissara

Associate Professor

keywords: War History, Political Justice, Transitional Justice, Violence, Civil Wars, Conceptual History, Contemporary History,
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Filippo Del Lucchese

Associate Professor

keywords: Spinoza, Baruch, Machiavelli, Niccolò, Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought from the Renaissance to the
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Marina Lalatta Costerbosa

Full Professor

keywords: children, Human Rights, responsibility, Moral Argumentation, torture, black pedagogy, Universalism, Autonomy, violence,
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Serena Vantin

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: history of the philosophy of law; law, ethics, technologies; discrimination; legal feminism

Elia Zaru

Research fellow

keywords: Political Philosophy, History of Modern and Contemporary Political Thought, Marxism and Materialism, Constituent Power