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- History of Ideas, Isaiah Berlin, Justifications and Excuses, H.L.A. Hart, Stuart Hampshire, Felix E. Oppenheim, and 59 moreLiberalism, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, General Jurisprudence, Liberalism and Toleration, Authority and Obligation, Oxford Philosophy, Distributive Justice, G. A. Cohen, Michael Oakeshott, Ronald Dworkin, Theories of Justice, Public Ethics, Whether morality and law are analogous, Political Philosophy, Iris Murdoch, Capability Approach, Peter Strawson, Richard Titmuss, British Intellectual History, Promises, Gilbert Ryle, History of Analytic Philosophy, A. J. Ayer, Montesquieu, J. L. Austin, Gaetano Filangieri, David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rights, Obligations, Natural rights, Moral rights, Cesare Beccaria, Cooperation, Trust, Educational Equity and Justice, Thomas Nagel, Cicero, Thucydides, Speech acts, Protagoras, Norberto Bobbio, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Bernard Williams, Judith Shklar, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Claude-Adrien Helvétius, Philosophy of Tort Law, Philosophy of Private Law, Voltaire, Raymond Aron, Anthony Crosland, Market Socialism, Alasdair MacIntyre, Lionel Trilling, and Nicola Chiaromonteedit
- Mario Ricciardi. Editor of "Rivista il Mulino" (2018-2020). Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Milan... moreMario Ricciardi. Editor of "Rivista il Mulino" (2018-2020). Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Milan. Teaches Legal Theory (in English) at LUISS "Guido Carli" in Rome. Co-editor, with Ian Carter, of a Festschrift for Felix E. Oppenheim (2001) and author of a book on H.L.A. Hart and Oxford Philosophy (2008). Also author of several articles and book chapters on Legal and Political philosophy in Italian, English and Spanish. A regular columnist for the cultural Sunday magazine of "Il Sole ventiquattrore" has written for "Il Riformista", "L'Unità" and "La rivista dei libri".edit
Nel suo lavoro più importante, The Concept of Law (1961), H.L.A. Hart difende la tesi che ci sarebbe un “contenuto minimo di diritto naturale” ovvero che tutti i sistemi giuridici delle società che hanno raggiunto almeno un certo livello... more
Nel suo lavoro più importante, The Concept of Law (1961), H.L.A. Hart difende la tesi che ci sarebbe un “contenuto minimo di diritto naturale” ovvero che tutti i sistemi giuridici delle società che hanno raggiunto almeno un certo livello di complessità organizzativa conterrebbero regole dal contenuto simile, la cui funzione sarebbe quella di rispondere ad alcuni problemi della convivenza tra esseri umani. Tra gli esempi di questo contenuto minimo di diritto naturale Hart menziona la promessa. Negli anni settanta la tesi di Hart fu attaccata dai coniugi Korn (lui un filosofo, lei un’antropologa) che scrissero un articolo, pubblicato su Ethics, che pretendeva di refutare la tesi di Hart sulla base di un contro esempio: l’arcipelago di Tonga, dove, a detta dei Korn, gli abitanti ignorano la promessa. In questo saggio Mario Ricciardi ripercorre gli argomenti dei Korn e mostra che essi sono basati su gravi fraintendimenti della natura della promessa. La conclusione cui giunge è che anche a Tonga si promette, ma che la promessa è un’istituzione molto più complessa di quel che si potrebbe pensare.
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According to John Austin, “status” is “the most difficult problem in the whole science of jurisprudence”, traditional definitions of such concept as “a quality” were dismissed by the British legal philosopher as a paradigmatic instance of... more
According to John Austin, “status” is “the most difficult problem in the whole science of jurisprudence”, traditional definitions of such concept as “a quality” were dismissed by the British legal philosopher as a paradigmatic instance of the “jargon of occult qualities” which Bentham deplored. Austin’s attitude towards the concept of status is the natural outcome of his conception of conceptual analysis as a kind of intellectual dissection whose aim is to bring to light the ultimate building blocks of legal thought. Austin’s “decompositive” analysis is still the dominant mode of conceptual elucidation among analytic legal philosophers. The aim of this book is to put forward an alternative “connective” model of conceptual clarification, which takes seriously the historical dimension of legal thought and culture. Through the analysis of ancient (Seneca) and modern (Pufendorf) texts, two different understanding of status are isolated and described: (i) status as condition, or mode of being; and status as position. In this way the concept of status is placed in its proper context, and explained as a device that is part of a sophisticated intellectual strategy to cope with the problem of giving an account of legal relations among agents in an institutional setting, and hence as an attempt to represent a central aspect of the ontology of the social world
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This is a companion to the philosophy of law written in Italian.
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This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics... more
This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of 'freedom', 'power' and 'interests', whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.
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In recent years we have witnessed a renewed interest in the work of the Neapolitan jurist and philosopher Gaetano Filangieri (1752-1788): the studies that appeared in the 1980s and 1990s1 were followed by monographs by Vincenzo Ferrone2... more
In recent years we have witnessed a renewed interest in the work of the Neapolitan jurist and philosopher Gaetano Filangieri (1752-1788): the studies that appeared in the 1980s and 1990s1 were followed by monographs by Vincenzo Ferrone2 and by Francesco Berti and, then, by the collected essays edited by Antonio Trampus. This rich harvest of studies is, moreover, not fortuitous, and gravitates around the useful initiative, promoted and directed by Vincenzo Ferrone, of launching a philologically reliable and annotated edition of The ...
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Research Interests: Marxism, Communism, Italian Politics, Contemporary Italian Philosophy, Socialism, and 9 moreNorberto Bobbio, History of Communism, Contemporary Italian History and Politics, Reformism, Partito Socialista Italiano, Palmiro Togliatti, Theories of Socialism, Partito comunista italiano, and Partito D'Azione
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According to John Austin, “status” is “the most difficult problem in the whole science of jurisprudence”, traditional definitions of such concept as “a quality” were dismissed by the British legal philosopher as a paradigmatic instance of... more
According to John Austin, “status” is “the most difficult problem in the whole science of jurisprudence”, traditional definitions of such concept as “a quality” were dismissed by the British legal philosopher as a paradigmatic instance of the “jargon of occult qualities” which Bentham deplored.
Austin’s attitude towards the concept of status is the natural outcome of his conception of conceptual analysis as a kind of intellectual dissection whose aim is to bring to light the ultimate building blocks of legal thought. Austin’s “decompositive” analysis is still the dominant mode of conceptual elucidation among analytic legal philosophers. The aim of this paper is to put forward an alternative “connective” model of conceptual clarification, which takes seriously the historical dimension of legal thought and culture. Through the analysis of ancient (Seneca) and modern (Pufendorf) texts, two different understanding of status are isolated and described: (i) status as condition, or mode of being; and status as position. In this way the concept of status is placed in its proper context, and explained as a device that is part of a sophisticated intellectual strategy to cope with the problem of giving an account of legal relations among agents in an institutional setting, and hence as an attempt to represent a central aspect of the ontology of the social world.
Austin’s attitude towards the concept of status is the natural outcome of his conception of conceptual analysis as a kind of intellectual dissection whose aim is to bring to light the ultimate building blocks of legal thought. Austin’s “decompositive” analysis is still the dominant mode of conceptual elucidation among analytic legal philosophers. The aim of this paper is to put forward an alternative “connective” model of conceptual clarification, which takes seriously the historical dimension of legal thought and culture. Through the analysis of ancient (Seneca) and modern (Pufendorf) texts, two different understanding of status are isolated and described: (i) status as condition, or mode of being; and status as position. In this way the concept of status is placed in its proper context, and explained as a device that is part of a sophisticated intellectual strategy to cope with the problem of giving an account of legal relations among agents in an institutional setting, and hence as an attempt to represent a central aspect of the ontology of the social world.
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This was written shortly after Jerry Cohen died. A revised version has been published in Mondoperaio, a socialist monthly review.
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Originally presented at the conference Ethics, Biology and the Representation of Human Behaviour, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Venice, 14-15 December 2001 and at the Colloque, La Personne – Corps, Esprit, Valeurs,... more
Originally presented at the conference Ethics, Biology and the Representation of Human Behaviour, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Venice, 14-15 December 2001 and at the Colloque, La Personne – Corps, Esprit, Valeurs, Université de Genève, 27-29 Mai 2002. In slightly different form this paper was also presented at a seminar held at Trinity College, Oxford – 6th March 2002, and given as a Public Lecture arranged with the support of the Belfast Branch of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, School of Philosophical Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, Thursday 7th March 2002. Although I no longer hold most of the views expressed in it, I have posted it here because it is a remote ancestor of my book on Hart.
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A profile of British Labour politician and political theorist C.A.R. Crosland
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The leading Italian newspapers, even those supposedly of leftist tendencies, were taken by surprise by Corbyn's success in the contest for the leadership of the Labour Party. Even after his election they appeared keen in explaining away... more
The leading Italian newspapers, even those supposedly of leftist tendencies, were taken by surprise by Corbyn's success in the contest for the leadership of the Labour Party. Even after his election they appeared keen in explaining away Corbyn more than in explaining why he was chosen by a large majority for the job. This article tries to set the balance right
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Rodolfo Mondolfo (1877-1976) was an Italian historian of philosophy, a socialist militant, and antifascist. He is the author of several works on Cesare Beccaria, written between the Twenties, when he was teaching at the University of... more
Rodolfo Mondolfo (1877-1976) was an Italian historian of philosophy, a socialist militant, and antifascist. He is the author of several works on Cesare Beccaria, written between the Twenties, when he was teaching at the University of Bologna, and the Forties, after he was forced to leave Italy due to the racial laws promulgated by the regime. His writings on Beccaria are still worth of attention for the student of the enlightenment. This essay underlines the lasting value of his contribution to our understanding of Beccaria as well as the shortcomings of an approach to the history of thought that is at odds with contemporary methodologies.
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A short profile of Cesare Beccaria, written to mark the 250th anniversary of the publication of his main work, Dei Delitti e delle Pene (1764). In this piece I suggest that Beccaria's normative theory is closer to contractualism than to... more
A short profile of Cesare Beccaria, written to mark the 250th anniversary of the publication of his main work, Dei Delitti e delle Pene (1764). In this piece I suggest that Beccaria's normative theory is closer to contractualism than to utilitarianism, and that it has a vague resemblance to the family of theories of justice which conceive justice as fairness.
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Hart’s criticism of Devlin’s stance on the legal enforcement of morality has been highly influential in shaping a new liberal sensibility and in paving the way to many important legal reforms in the UK. After fifty years it is perhaps... more
Hart’s criticism of Devlin’s stance on the legal enforcement of morality has been highly influential in shaping a new liberal sensibility and in paving the way to many important legal reforms in the UK. After fifty years it is perhaps time to go back to Law, Liberty and Morality to see it in the perspective of the general evolution of Hart’s thought since the early Fifties. This is a period of extraordinary creativity for the Oxford philosopher, in which he writes many important contributions to legal, moral and political philosophy. Prominent among those is ‘Are There Any Natural Rights?’, an article that sets the agenda for Hart’s subsequent work on liberty, fairness and rights, and provides the philosophical background for the liberal understanding of the relations between law and morality defended in Law, Liberty and Morality.
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A reconstruction of Hart's argument in 'Are There Any Natural Rights?' and some hypothesis about its influence on the early development of John Rawls's theory of justice.
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A profile of Jerry Cohen written for the Italian monthly review "Mondoperaio".
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... Abstract. La più giuridica delle virtù / M. Ricciardi. - In: Rivista di estetica. - ISSN 0035-6212. - 39:3(2008). - p. 215-224.. Si tratta di uno studio su alcuni aspetti della riflessione di HLA Hart sulla giustizia ei suoi rapporti... more
... Abstract. La più giuridica delle virtù / M. Ricciardi. - In: Rivista di estetica. - ISSN 0035-6212. - 39:3(2008). - p. 215-224.. Si tratta di uno studio su alcuni aspetti della riflessione di HLA Hart sulla giustizia ei suoi rapporti col diritto. Details der Publikation. ...
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Uberto Scarpelli ha scritto che il problema dell'aborto è “il luogo critico di una cultura intera, di una visione del mondo. Si scontrano intorno a esso la fede religiosa e l'umanesimo, la metafisica e la filosofia dell'uomo, il... more
Uberto Scarpelli ha scritto che il problema dell'aborto è “il luogo critico di una cultura intera, di una visione del mondo. Si scontrano intorno a esso la fede religiosa e l'umanesimo, la metafisica e la filosofia dell'uomo, il paternalismo di chi vuole imporre a tutti le proprie posizioni morali e la rivendicazione della libertà.
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A short introductory essay on Michael Oakeshott philosophy of law.
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The article is a survey of the impact of U.S. political philosophy over its Italian counterpart. Such impact has not been deep, judging from the presence of Italian authors in the American debate, even though the most important American... more
The article is a survey of the impact of U.S. political philosophy over its Italian counterpart. Such impact has not been deep, judging from the presence of Italian authors in the American debate, even though the most important American authors have been translated in Italian, and their work has been the object of essays and reviews by several Italian authors belonging to different schools of thought. There two explanations, according to the author of the survey, of such relative inhospitality of Italian political philosophy to its American homologue. The first is a general difference over the way to understand philosophy itself. Whereas American philosophers subscribe to what might be described roughly as an analytical understanding of their discipline, the majority of Italian philosophers are still under the spell of several brands of historicist or relativistic thought. The second is the sensible difference in the understanding of liberalism, the predominant attitude among political philosophers in the U.S.. Whereas in the U.S. liberalism is understood as a political theory which deals with normative models of just institutions, in Italy, where it is far from the prevalent orientation among the political philosophers, it is conceived “meta-politically”.
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The article has three parts. The first is devoted to the analysis of some features of Italian philosophy that might be used to explain why analytic philosophy of politics, and analytic philosophy in general, has few practitioners. The... more
The article has three parts. The first is devoted to the analysis of some features of Italian philosophy that might be used to explain why analytic philosophy of politics, and analytic philosophy in general, has few practitioners. The second part gives an explanation of the relatively small audience Rawls has among liberals in Italy. Some features of the Italian liberal tradition might be helpful in explaining this fact; hence a short presentation of these features (as exemplified by Croce) is outlined. The third part deals with the reception of Rawls's ideas among the small group of analytic political philosophers in Italy.
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A reconstruction of Aquinas' thought on self-defence, and a comparison of his point of view with other philosophers
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This is the Introduction to the Italian translation of Jerry Cohen's book on justice, published by L'asino d'oro edizioni, Rome 2016
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in Mario Ricciardi, Andrea Rossetti e Vito Velluzzi (eds.), Filosofia del diritto. Norme, concetti, argomenti, Carocci, Roma 2015, pp. 77-92
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In Claudia Mancina and Mario Ricciardi (eds.), Famiglia italiana
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Page 1. Last updated 07/07/2006 12:49 Berlin on Liberty Mario Ricciardi W hat makes a contemporary classic? The answer is seldom uncontroversial. Popularity, originality, depth each of these is proffered in turn as the defining property... more
Page 1. Last updated 07/07/2006 12:49 Berlin on Liberty Mario Ricciardi W hat makes a contemporary classic? The answer is seldom uncontroversial. Popularity, originality, depth each of these is proffered in turn as the defining property of this elusive class of artefacts. ...
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... Abstract. Diritto naturale minimo / Mario Ricciardi. - (Manuali universitari ; 32). - In: Filosofia analitica : temi e problemi ; [a cura di] Annalisa Coliva. - Roma : Carocci, 2007. - p. 379-401.. Nel capitolo viene introdotta e... more
... Abstract. Diritto naturale minimo / Mario Ricciardi. - (Manuali universitari ; 32). - In: Filosofia analitica : temi e problemi ; [a cura di] Annalisa Coliva. - Roma : Carocci, 2007. - p. 379-401.. Nel capitolo viene introdotta e discussa ...
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Gianfranco Pellegrino’s book is a bold and original contribution both to the literature on public ethics and to the current debate on political morality in Italy. One might object, however, to Pellegrino’s description of his own normative... more
Gianfranco Pellegrino’s book is a bold and original contribution both to the literature on public ethics and to
the current debate on political morality in Italy. One might object, however, to Pellegrino’s description of his own
normative stance as distinct from political realism.
the current debate on political morality in Italy. One might object, however, to Pellegrino’s description of his own
normative stance as distinct from political realism.
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Iride Filosofia e discussione pubblica ISSN : 1122-7893. Numero: 1, aprile 2006, Indice. DOI: 10.1414/22315. La Scienza della Legislazione di Gaetano Filangierii Pietro Costa, Carla De Pascale, Mario Ricciardi, pp. 181-202 6 ...
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A review article of Alan Ryan's history of political thought.
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Home Page; Chi siamo; Collane; E-book; Riviste; Percorsi di lettura; Come acquistare; Book orders; Come contattarci; Login; Password dimenticata? ricerca CARRELO. Buchanan sul diritto di secessione. Journal Title: SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO.... more
Home Page; Chi siamo; Collane; E-book; Riviste; Percorsi di lettura; Come acquistare; Book orders; Come contattarci; Login; Password dimenticata? ricerca CARRELO. Buchanan sul diritto di secessione. Journal Title: SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO. Author/s: Mario Ricciardi. Year: 1997 Issue: 2 Language: IT Pages: 0 Fulltext PDF:0 KB. FrancoAngeli is a member of Publishers International Linking Association a not for profit orgasnization wich runs the CrossRef service, enabing links to and from online scholarly content. ...
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A review of Gaetano Pecora's new book on Carlo Rosselli
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In this piece, Mario Ricciardi conducts an interview with Hillel Steiner centred around Steiner's prize winning book, An Essay on Rights. Steiner responds to questions on the development of his views, their practical implications and on... more
In this piece, Mario Ricciardi conducts an interview with Hillel Steiner centred around Steiner's prize winning book, An Essay on Rights. Steiner responds to questions on the development of his views, their practical implications and on key aspects of his theoretical standpoint.
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«It is the duty of a patriot to prefer and promote the exclusive interest and glory of his native country: but a philosopher may be permitted to enlarge his views, and to consider Europe as one great republic, whose various inhabitants... more
«It is the duty of a patriot to prefer and promote the exclusive interest and glory of his native country: but a philosopher may be permitted to enlarge his views, and to consider Europe as one great republic, whose various inhabitants have attained almost the same level of politeness and cultivation». Le parole che abbiamo appena letto sono tratte dalle ultime pagine del terzo volume di The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire di Edward Gibbon, pubblicato nel 1781. Oggi ciò che più ci colpisce nel leggerle è probabilmente la caratterizzazione dell’Europa come una “grande Repubblica”. Siamo a pochi anni dallo scoppio della rivoluzione francese, che annuncia un secolo, il XIX, che vede l’emergere dei nazionalismi e l’ingresso del continente in una nuova fase di quella lotta per la supremazia tra le maggiori potenze destinata a durare fino al XX secolo. Eppure lo storico inglese coglie già, nella realtà economica e sociale dei Paesi europei, quella sostanziale uniformità di condizioni di vita, di istituzioni e di cultura che trova la propria – imperfetta – espressione nell’esperimento dell’Unione europea. A ben vedere, la preveggenza di Gibbon non dovrebbe sorprenderci. [...]
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An obituary of Letizia Gianformaggio
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Colloquium in Ethics, Politics and Society. Luiss - Guido Carli, 7th April 2016, 2.00 pm
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In a footnote to Chapter IV of Crimes and Punishments, Cesare Beccaria writes that the word 'obligation' is one of those that occur more frequently in ethics than in any other science, and which are the abbreviated sign of a rational... more
In a footnote to Chapter IV of Crimes and Punishments, Cesare Beccaria writes that the word 'obligation' is one of those that occur more frequently in ethics than in any other science, and which are the abbreviated sign of a rational argument and not of an idea. Seek an adequate idea of the word 'obligation' and you will fail to find it; reason about it and you will both understand yourself and be understood by others. According to H.L.A. Hart, in this short treatment of the concept of obligation there is a likely source for Bentham's "theory of fictions" , and for the method of analysis by paraphrasis (a milestone of empiricism according to Quine). The aim of this paper is to develop Hart's hypothesis, arguing that scattered through Beccaria's writing there are hints of an empiricist account of normative concepts of considerable subtlety.
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A series of debates on the Enlightenment and its limits held at the Casa della Cultura in Milan
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Workshop on Stuart Hampshire. Cesare Beccaria Department, The University of Milan, and Politeia. December 3th 2015. Politeia, The University of Milan, via Festa del perdono, 7, 4 pm
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Dibattito sul libro di Roberta De Monticelli. Con l'autrice partecipano Mauro Bonazzi e Mario Ricciardi. Università di Milano, via Festa del Perdono 7 1 dicembre 2015
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DIReCT Workshop held at the University of Milan, the 14th October 2015
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Conference at Bocconi University, Milan. 12th October 2015
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Conference, La Sapienza University, Rome, 7 October 2015