Tuzet, Giovanni

Giovanni Tuzet (1972) is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He studied law and philosophy in Turin and Paris and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on C.S. Peirce’s theory of inference. His areas of interest include evidence, epistemology, pragmatism, argumentation theory, philosophy of law, and economic analysis of law.

He has been visiting professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, 2021) and at the European Faculty of Law (Nova Gorica and Ljubljana, “Jean Monnet Modules”, 2016-19).

His publications include: La prima inferenza. L’abduzione di C.S. Peirce fra scienza e diritto (2006), Dover decidere.

Diritto, incertezza e ragionamento (2010), La pratica dei valori.

Nodi fra conoscenza e azione (2012), Filosofia della prova giuridica (2013, 3rd ed. 2022), La giustificazione della decisione giudiziale (2019, 2nd ed. 2020, with D. Canale), Analogia e ragionamento giuridico (2020), La prueba razonada (2020), The Planning Theory of Law. A Critical Reading (2013, co-edited with D. Canale), The Italian Pragmatists. Between Allies and Enemies (2021, co-edited with G. Maddalena) and numerous articles in international journals.

He is one of the editors of Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (2021, co-edited with C. Dahlman and A. Stein).

Area(s) of expertise: evidence, epistemology, pragmatism, argumentation theory, philosophy of law, and economic analysis of law