Fittipaldi, Edoardo

Full Professor of Sociology of Law at the State University of Milan.

Research on the Influence of Leon Petrazycki -- to whom, incidentally, one of the room of the institute is dedicated -- on Continental and South-American Sociology of law (including the influence of his theory of games as jural systems); notably, research on his influence on Gurvitch (who was one of his pupils), This research is connected to the fact that I -- along with Prof. Encinas de Munagorri of Nantes University-- am translating Petrazycki's masterpiece (his "Theory of Law and State" into French.

Area(s) of expertise: Petrazycki - Empirical Operationalization of Legal Concepts