- Isabel Trujillo: is Full Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Palermo (IT), Department of Law. PhD in Philosophy of Law, General Theory of Law, and Political Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza (IT), Researcher at the University of Rome TorVergata, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law in Rome and Palermo. From 2014 to 2020, Professor Trujillo has been the Vice President of the international academic network, the European Academy of Legal Theory (EALT). She has been the Director of the PhD Program in Human Rights and of the PhD Program on Gender Studies, as well as Director of the Doctoral School of the Law Department. Visiting researcher and fellow in Nuffield College and in the Law Faculty in Oxford, Academic fellow in the Lauterpacht Center for International Law (Cambridge), Birkbeck College and King’s College in London.
- Francesco Biondo: is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law, national scientific qualification for Full Professor, lecturer in Philosophy of Law and Legal Logic and Methodology at the single-cycle master’s degree program in Law. Author of two monographs (Well-being, Justice and Human Rights in the Thought of Amartya Sen; Theory of Law and Civil Disobedience) and numerous essays on Distributive Justice, Liberal Perfectionism, Torture, Rule of Law, European Citizenship, Vaccine Obligation, Tax Havens, Virtue Theory, Fake News published in English, Italian, Spanish.
- Silvia Corradi: is assistant researcher at the Department of Law of the University of Palermo, within the P.R.I.N. project The Virtues of the Rule of law as an Institutional Ethos under the supervision of Prof. Isabel Trujillo. She holds a Ph.D. regarding Philosophy of Law obtained at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, program in Comparative and European Legal Studies. She spent research periods at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and at the University of Granada and she attended international courses related to her research topics, mainly concerning the relationship between law and (techno-)science and the epistemological aspects dealing with these areas of knowledge, rhetoric and argumentation theories, virtue ethics.
- Roberta Di Gregorio: is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies at the University of Palermo. She obtained a master’s degree in Law from the same University and completed her legal training at the Palermo bar association. Her research area is legal philosophy, with a specific focus on virtue ethics and argumentation. Her contribution will concern the analysis of the relationship between ethical virtues and the principle of impartiality.
- Michele Mangini: teaches Philosophy of Law and Ethics and the Law in the Department of Law of the University of Bari. Since 2017 he coordinates an international master programme named Philosophy, Politics and Economics in Med in which he teaches Ethics and Political Philosophy. The programme is by now gathering students from most parts of the world and it is a place of meeting for many visiting and Erasmus professors. He works between legal reasoning, liberal perfectionism and the ethics of virtues and especially on points of convergence among these areas. He has carried forward in these last years a project of research focused on the topic of reasonableness through essays that have ranged among the ethical, legal and political aspects of this complex concept. Among the last publications: The Reasonable Citizen: A Model for Bridging Ethics and Politics in the EU in the European Law Journal, EVE According to Reasonableness in Ethics and the Environment, Between Epistemic and Ethical Reasonableness. Some Steps Beyond the Burdens of Judgment in Iride. A book on reasonableness is expected in the next year. He has published extensively in the mentioned fields in both journals and books. He has been visiting in the last years in the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Alicante, Durham, Oviedo, Uppsala, Buenos Aires, Birmingham, Gdansk, Dublin and Braga.
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- Elena Ricci: is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bari, adjunct professor at the European University of Rome where she teaches Anthropology and Palliative Care, and coordinator and lecturer in the Master’s program in Psychology and Ethics of Palliative Care at the same University. Since 2016, she has been collaborating with the interuniversity research center ARETAI and since 2022 with the PRACTICE project (PI: Prof. Maria Silvia Vaccarezza). Her research interests include the study of virtue in professional ethics, ethics of palliative care, character education, and nudging. Among her publications are essays such as Virtue Monism: Some Advantages for Character Education (2024) with Ariele Niccoli and Martina Piantoni; Etica degli spazi virtuali. La responsabilità morale degli influencer (2023) with Claudia Navarini, and Buone pratiche di cura. Dalla care ethics ad una virtue care ethics delle pratiche sanitarie (2022).
- Lucia Corso: is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Enna, Kore. Her research interests include the relationship between constitutionalism and legal theory, with a special focus on populism; the relationship between religion and politics; the role of emotions in legal reasoning; virtue theory and the rule of law, with peculiar attention given to the writings of Aristotle and Maimonides. She holds a Ph.D. through the University of Naples; a LL.M at the New York University, School of Law and has been visiting fellow in various universities and international academies, such as NYU, LSE, Cambridge University, the American Academy in Rome. She has extensively written on the US constitutional and legal culture.
- Giuseppina Barcellona: is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Kore University of Enna. She received her doctorate in Evolution of legal systems and new rights from the Faculty of Law, University of Lecce, discussing a doctoral thesis on Fundamental rights between constitutional doctrines and systemic theory. Winner of a Research Fellowship on Law and Administration in the Horizon of the European Constitution at Cà Foscari University of Venice, Tutor Prof. L. Benvenuti. Her main research areas are: Constitutional state and the process of European integration; System of sources and abrogative referendum; Science and new rights; Rule of law and reservation of law.
- Antonia Maria Scaravilli: (Ph.D.), is Researcher of Constitutional Law at the University of Enna “Kore”, is Professor of Elements of Law-Degree Course in Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics and Law-Public Law-Degree Course in Social Work and Criminological Sciences, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences; Regional Law and the Law of Local Autonomies-Master’s Degree in Law. Former President of the Degree Course in Journalism, she is Head of International Relations of the Degree Course in Social Service and Criminological Sciences; Teaching Commission member cdl in Economics and Management; Disability Contact cdl in Economics and Management. Member of the Editorial Committee of the Scientific Journal PasSaggi Costituzionali.
- Cosimo Nicolini Coen: is a Ph.D. candidate at Bar Ilan University (Israel), at the Department of Jewish Philosophy. He has taken part in Forum Matanel of French Jewish Philosophy. His research, under the direction of Prof. Hanoch Ben Pazi, concerns the relationship between ethical ordination, hermeneutics and the limit of law in Levinas’ thought, focusing on some Jewish law features. Nicolini Coen had worked on the topic of legal minority opinions in Jewish and Western Law (Rivista di Filosofia del Diritto – awarded with 2022 HaNassì Prize; Politica del Diritto, 2020). He published a book consecrated to a critical comparison of some facets of Carlo Sini’s thought and the ethical and theoretical implications of Jewish hermeneutics (Durango 2020; French edition, Harmattan 2022). He has published the Italian edition (Translation and Introduction) of Abraham Melamed’s book Dat: From Law to Faith. This year, he received a research grant from the University Kore of Enna (Italy) for a project, under the direction of Prof. Lucia Corso, on the played by the ethical virtues of moderation and phronesis in the juridical field and in Jewish thought.
- Giulio Pedrini: is Associate Professor in economic policy at the Kore University of Enna. He holds a degree in economics (University of Genoa), a master’s in law and economics (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), and a Ph.D. in Law and Economics (University of Bologna). He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Employment Research – University of Warwick and the Universitè Libre de Bruxelles. His main areas of research are innovation economics, labor economics and regional economics. He has participated in research projects in the field of business formation, digitization of innovation ecosystems, circular economy, urban regeneration and local development. His contribution will focus on the analysis of the impact of tourism on territories in environmental and social terms and the construction of related sub-indicators.