LO GIUDICE Alessio

Alessio Lo Giudice is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Law Department of the University of Messina, where he teaches Legal Argumentation as well. From 2014 to 2018 he was Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Law Department of the University of Catania. He spent almost three years of research periods abroad, at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands (where he also taught Philosophy of Law) and at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. His postgraduate education includes a PhD in Philosophy of Law conferred by the University of Tilburg and a PhD in Sociology of Law conferred by the University of Milan. His scientific research is mostly devoted to legal-philosophical study on the dynamics of social regulation within the post-national, and above all European, context. The framework of the study is given by modern and contemporary theories of State and democracy. The research is currently directed towards the understanding of conditions for making the legal and political form of democracy possible and effective beyond the State. His scientific achievements are attested by four monographs, six editorships, numerous articles and essays and several presentations given in national and international meetings.