• After Comparative Legal History
    In E. Calzolaio (ed.), Liber Amicorum Luigi Moccia. pp. 215-241. 2021.
    The 1930-60s saw the beginning of a fertile stream of research based on a historical-comparative methodology focused on case-law viewed as the paradigm of the true living law. Today, the new frontier is in the information age and in thinking law as information.
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    The Western Legal Tradition and Soviet Russia. The genesis of H. Berman’s Law and Revolution
    In The Socialist Interpretations of Legal History. The Histories and Historians of Law and Justice in the Socialist Regimes of East Central Europe. pp. 98-111. 2021.
    The Western Legal Tradition (WLT) is a child of the Cold War era. Originally conceived by the Harvard legal historian HJ Berman in his 1950 book on Justice in Russia, a work aimed at explaining to the West what laid beyond the Iron Curtain, this idea gives life to an account set out in an opposition in which the West and Soviet Russia are defined with the features missing to each other. In those pages is the blueprint for his two well-known volumes published in 1983 and 2003, and for a third vol…Read more
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    What is comparative legal history? This essay argues that to understand this new field of legal-historical studies, we need first to clarify how legal historiography has changed over time. To this purpose, this essay begins from two main ideas. First, the writing of legal history is deeply intertwined with an image of law that tells us what law is, how it is created and by whom. This is, in fact, the premise for writing legal history, as it determines the object of investigation. Second, the dec…Read more
  • Logica giuridica e applicazione giurisprudenziale della legge
    Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 12 (1): 69-86. 1983.