Articles

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Rational Angels. Understanding the Theological Background of Economic Rationality, SSRN (2011)

In this essay the Author traces back the modern standard theory of economic rationality to...

 

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The Books and the Gavel: Law's Image and the Theory of American Sublime, Polemos (2011)
 

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Italian National Reports to 18th World Congress on Comparative Law, The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin - Special Volume Issue (2010)

Edition of the Set of Italian National Reports on Behalf of the Italian Association of...

 

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"All of this and so much more": Original Intent, Antagonism and Non-Interpretivism, Global Jurist Frontiers (2009)

In this paper I start from a discussion of ``originalism" as a practice of interpretation...

 

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'Cunning Passages': Traductology, Comparison and Ideology in the Law and Language Story, SSRN (2009)

My standpoint in this paper is that in affording the subject of Law and Language...

 

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Colpa e legge fra Oriente e Occidente, Paradoxa (2009)

The Fault and the Law between East and West. In this article Monateri traces an...

 

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The Fascist Theory of Contract: A Comparative and Historical Inquiry into the Darker Side of Contract Law (with Alessandro Somma), Cardozo Electronic Law Journal (2009)

This paper represents an attempt to discuss and re-assess the scholarly debate on Private Law...

 

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Comparing Comparativisms: Nomos and Narrative as Cultural Legitimation (Comparer les comparaisons, Le problème de la légitimité culturelle et le nomos du droit, Opinio Juris (2009)

This paper is an inquiry into the scientific roots and the 'normative' justification of comparative...

 

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Cittadinanza e laicità fra emancipazione e messianesimo politico, Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale (2009)

This paper is devoted to examine the concrete historical situation of conflict out of which...

 

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Sovereign Ambiguity - From Hamlet to Benjamin via Eliot and Schmitt, Anglistik. International Journal of Legal Studies (2009)

The Author examines how Romantic Ambiguity lies at the heart of the legal notion of...

 

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Legal Formants and Competitive Models: Understanding Comparative Law from Legal Process to Critique in Cross-System Legal Analysis, SSRN (2008)

This paper is a brief summary of the Formants approach in Comparative Law. The method...

 

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The 'Weak Law': Contaminations and Legal Cultures, Global Jurist Advances (2008)

This paper examines two main aspect of import/export of rules and legal categories as a...

 

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Messianism as State of Exception, Cardozo Electronic Law Journal (2008)

In this paper, written in italian, Monateri tries to interpret Jesus teachings in the context...

 

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Deep Inside the Bramble Bush - Complex Orders and Humanities, Cardozo Electronic Law Journal (2007)

This article is an investigation on Humanities, an attempt to justify their privileged role in...

 

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Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the 'Western Legal Tradition', Hastings Law Journal (2000)

In this paper I intend to signal an independent appraisal of the roots of the...

 

Books

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La Prescrizione (with Cristina Costantini) (2009)

L’opera analizza in modo estremamente approfondito e completo uno degli istituti classici del diritto privato,...

 

Contributions to Books

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The Prophetic Nature of Equity, THE CONCEPT OF EQUITY (2007)

This paper parallels the role played by Equity in English legal history with the role...