A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence: Volume 12 Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World, Tome 1: Language Areas, Tome 2: Main Orientations and Topics

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ENRICO PATTAROUniversity of Bologna ItalyBorn in Rome on April 8 1941. Graduated summa cum laude in law from the University of Bologna 1964 with a dissertation on Hans Kelsen and Alf Ross. Libero docente (Habilitationsschrift) in the philosophy of law 1971. Was awarded a position as full professor in legal philosophy through a national 1975 competition for a professorship in Italy. Tenured professor in legal philosophy at the Bologna University School of Law. Served as dean of the Bologna University School of Law from 1977 to 1979 and then as member of the Bologna University Board of Directors from 1980 to 1989.Main research fields: Legal philosophy general jurisprudence the history of legal ideas and computer science and law. Author of over two hundred publications. Main speaker at national and international conferences. Invited speaker at universities in Western and Eastern Europe Latin America and the United States.  19821989. Promoted (with others) and served as member of the Ph.D. programme in Analytic Philosophy and Legal Theory of the University of Milan. Coordinator: Uberto Scarpelli.19831990. Served as member of the International Statutory Interpretation Project Cornell University School of Law USA. Coordinators: Neil MacCormick (University of Edinburg UK) and Robert S. Summers (Cornell University USA).1986. Founded CIRSFIDBologna University Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the History Sociology and Philosophy of Law and in IT Law and Legal Informaticsserving as the centres director from 1986 to 1999 and from 2006 to the present.19861995. Served as member of the advisory board of the Center for Semiotic Research in Law Government and Economics Pennsylvania State University Reading Pa. Founder: Roberta Kevelson.1987. Founded Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Oxford and Cambridge Mass.: Basil Blackwell) serving as editor-in-chief from 1987 to 2001. Original Committee of Advisors: Hans Albert (University of Mannheim Germany) Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin Italy) H. L. A. Hart (University of Oxford UK) and Georg H. von Wright (Finnish Academy of Science Finland). Current Committee of Advisors: Hans Albert (University of Mannheim Germany) Ronald Dworkin (University College London UK) Enrico Pattaro (University of Bologna Italy) and John Searle (University of California at Berkeley USA).1989. Cofounded the European Association for the Teaching of Legal Theory based in Brussels and have since sat on the board of directors.1989. Founded the Bologna University Ph.D. Programme in Legal Informatics and Information-Technology Law serving as coordinator until 2000.1989present. Member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences.1989present. Served as member of the advisory committee of the Istituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid. Founder: Gregorio Peces-Barba (Spain).1992present. Served as member of the advisory committee of Anuario de Filosofía Jurídica y Social Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social Valparaiso (Chile).1992present. Served as member of the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence and Law BerlinDordrechtHeidelbergNew York: Springer.199599. Served as president of IVR Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) founded in 1909. Vice presidents during the same period: Eugenio Bulygin (Argentina) Mikael Karlsson (Iceland) Rex Martin (USA) and Aleksander Peczenik (Sweden).19971999. Chaired the Jurists Team of the Euro Committee appointed by the Italian government to draft the statutory instruments and delegated legislation on the changeover to a single European currency (the euro).1998. Conceived and carried out the Irnerius Project digitally reproducing and making available on the Web the medieval glossators and commentators manuscript codices of the Reale Collegio di Spagna in Bologna (the database is online at http://irnerio.cirsfid.unibo.it and now counts 138908 leaves).1999present. Honorary president of IVR Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) founded in 1909.2001. Promoted the Masters course in Legal Informatics and Information-Technology Law Bologna University School of Law part of the European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP) consortium. Other universities in the consortium: Strathclyde University Glasgow UK; Leibniz Universität Hannover Germany; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium Queen Mary University of London UK; Université Notre-Dame de la Paix NamurFrance; Universitetet i Oslo Norway; Lapin Yliopisto Rovaniemi Finland; Stockholms Universitet Sweden; Universität Wien Austria; and Universidad de Zaragoza Spain.2001present. Conceived A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence 12 vols. (Dordrecht Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer) serving as editor-in-chief. Associate Editors: Gerald J. Postema (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA) Peter G. Stein (University of Cambridge UK). Advisory Board: Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin Italy) Ronald M. Dworkin (New York University USA and University College London UK) Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford University USA) and Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex UK).20042008. President of the Italian Association for Legal Philosophy (formerly called Italian Association for Legal and Political Philosophy) based in Rome. Vice presidents during the same period: Vincenzo Ferrari (University of Milan) and Francesco Viola (University of Palermo).2007present. Served as member of the editorial board of Studii de drept romanesc (Legal Romanian Studies) Bucharest Romania.2008. Founded the Italian Society for Law and Literature (www.lawandliterature.org) currently serving as its honorary president.2008present. Served as member of the editorial board of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law BerlinDordrechtHeidelbergNew York: Springer.Corrado Roversi Bologna University School of LawCorrado Roversi is assistant professor in Legal Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He holds a Ph.D. in Analytic Philosophy and General Jurisprudence from the University of Milan. He is a member of CIRSFID (Centre for Research in the History Philosophy and Sociology of Law and in Computer Science and Law) at the University of Bologna and assistant editor of Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Wiley-Blackwell). His main interests are in social and legal ontology the theory of norms and normativeness and the philosophy of normative language. Among his publications are On Constitutive Normativity in The Normativity of Law eds. S. Bertea and G. Pavlakos (Oxford: Hart Publishing forthcoming); Constitutive Rules in Context Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 96: 223-38 (2010); Inferentialism Social Practices and the Connection between Law and Morality coauthored with G. Bongiovanni and A. Rotolo in The Rules of Inference. Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy eds. D. Canale and G. Tuzet 45-72 Milan: EGEA (2009); Performative Contradictions and Norm-enactment coauthored with A. Rotolo Ratio Juris 22: 455-82 (2009); The Structure of Social Practices and the Connection between Law and Morality coauthored with G. Bongiovanni A. Rotolo C. Valentini Ratio Juris 22: 1-23 (2009); Constitutionalism and Transcendental Arguments Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 59: 10924 (2008); The Claim to Correctness and Inferentialism: Alexys Theory of Practical Reason Reconsidered coauthored with G. Bongiovanni and A. Rotolo in Law Rights and Discourse edited by G. Pavlakos 275300 (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2007).