Law

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Fellows: Thomas D. Barton, Helena Haapio

Barton, T. D., Berger-Walliser, G., & Haapio, H. (2016). Contracting for innovation and innovating contracts: An overview and introduction to the special issue. Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 2(1–2), 3–9.

Barton, T. D., Berger-Walliser, G., & Haapio, H. (2013). Visualization: Seeing contracts for what they are, and what they could become. Journal of Law, Business & Ethics, 19, 47–63.

Berger-Walliser, G., Barton, T. D., & Haapio, H. (2017). From visualization to legal design: A collaborative and creative process. American Business Law Journal, 54(2), 347–392.


Fellow: Stefano Bertea

Bertea, S. (2015). A foundation for the conception of law as practical reason. Law and Philosophy, 34, 55–88.

Bertea, S. (2013). Constitutivism and normativity: A qualified defence. Philosophical Explorations, 16(1), 81–95.

Bertea, S. (2011). The master rule, normativity, and the institutional theory of law. In J. E. Fossum & A. J. Menéndez (Eds.), Law and democracy in Neil MacCormick’s legal and political theory (pp. 69–91). Springer.


Fellow: Colette Brunschwig

Brunschwig, C. R. (2021). Visual law and legal design: Questions and tentative answers. In E. Schweighofer et al. (Eds.), Cybergovernance (No. 24, pp. 179–230). Editions Weblaw.

Brunschwig, C. R. (2019). Contract comics and the visualization, audio-visualization, and multisensorization of law. University of Western Australia Law Review, 46(2), 191–217.

Brunschwig, C. R. (2020). Humanoid robots for contract visualisation. UNIO – EU Law Journal, 6(1), 142–160.

Brunschwig, C. R. (2019). Perspectives of digital law: Visualization, audiovisualization and multisensorization. Forum Historiae Iuris.


Fellow: Giorgio Fabio Colombo

Colombo, G. F. (2014). Japan as a victim of comparative law. Michigan State International Law Review, 22(3), 731–754.

Annunziata, F., & Colombo, G. F. (2021). Opera and law: Critical notes. Law and Literature, 33, 141–157.

Colombo, G. F. (2017). Sakura Sōgōro: Law and justice in Tokugawa Japan through the mirror of a ghost story. Law and Literature, 29(2), 329–344.


Fellow: Sattwick Dey Biswas

Dey Biswas, S. (2020). Land acquisition and compensation in India: Mysteries of valuation. Springer International Publishing.


Fellow: Michał Dudek

Dudek, M. (2023). Law without matter? The immateriality thesis: A critical commentary. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 36(6), 2455–2483.

Dudek, M. (2018). Can informative traffic signs also be obligatory? Polish Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court versus traffic signs. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 31(4), 771–785.

Dudek, M. (2017). What legal rules are suitable for protruding media of law and why? Contribution to the concept of locality/non-locality of legal rules. In S. Marusek (Ed.), Synesthetic legalities: Sensory dimensions of law and jurisprudence (pp. 9–26). Routledge.

Dudek, M. (2014). Why are words not enough? Or a few remarks on traffic signs. In Problems of normativity, rules and rule-following (pp. 363–372). Springer. .

Dudek, M. (2022). Redundancies of traffic signs: An exploratory study. Semiotica, 2022(247), 283–317.

Dudek, M. (2024). On flat ontologies and law. Routledge.


​Fellow: Sebastián Figueroa Rubio

Figueroa Rubio, S. (2024). Conventions, recognition and the practical point of view. In M. Dybowski, W. Dzięgielewska, & W. Rzepiński (Eds.), Practice theory and law: On practices in legal and social sciences (pp. 186–207). Routledge.


Fellow: Helena Haapio

Berger-Walliser, G., Bird, R. C., & Haapio, H. (2011). Promoting business success through contract visualization. Journal of Law, Business & Ethics, 17.

Haapio, H. (2014, February 20). Lawyers as designers, engineers and innovators: Better legal documents through information design and visualization. Jusletter IT.

Fellows: Helena Haapio, Thomas D. Barton

Haapio, H., & Barton, T. D. (2017). Business-friendly contracting: How simplification and visualization can help bring it to practice. In K. Jacob, D. Schindler, & R. Strathausen (Eds.), Liquid legal: Transforming legal into a business savvy, information enabled and performance driven industry (pp. 371–396). Springer.

Haapio, H., Barton, T. D., & Corrales Compagnucci, M. (2021). Legal design for the common good: Proactive legal care by design. In M. Corrales Compagnucci, H. Haapio, M. Hagan, & M. Doherty (Eds.), Legal design: Integrating business, design and legal thinking with technology (pp. 56–81). Edward Elgar.


Fellow: Gillian K. Hadfield

Hadfield, G. K., & Weingast, B. R. (2014). Microfoundations of the rule of law. Annual Review of Political Science, 17, 21–42.

Hadfield-Menell, D., Andrus, M., & Hadfield, G. K. (2019). Legible normativity for AI alignment: The value of silly rules. In Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 115–121). Association for Computing Machinery.

Köster, R., Hadfield-Menell, D., Hadfield, G. K., & Leibo, J. Z. (2020). Silly rules improve the capacity of agents to learn stable enforcement and compliance behaviors. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2020) (pp. 1887–1888).


​Fellow: Antonio Incampo

Incampo, A. (2018). Non-truth in the logic of legal process. Rechtstheorie, 49(1), 75–86.

Incampo, A. (2020). Unidad de la pena y pluralidad de culturas. In Discriminación racial, intolerancia y fanatismo en la Unión Europea (pp. 95–106).


Fellow: Nicola Lettieri

Lettieri, N., Guarino, A., Malandrino, D., & Zaccagnino, R. (2023). Knowledge mining and social dangerousness assessment in criminal justice: Metaheuristic integration of machine learning and graph-based inference. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 31(4), 653–702.

Lettieri, N., & Parisi, D. (2013). Neminem laedere. An evolutionary agent-based model of the interplay between punishment and damaging behaviours. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 21(4), 425–453.

Lettieri, N. (2020). Law in Turing’s cathedral: Notes on the algorithmic turn of the legal universe. In W. Barfield (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of the law of algorithms (pp. 691–721). Cambridge University Press.


Fellow: Olimpia Giuliana Loddo

Loddo, O. G. (2020). Manifestare gli atti sociali: Canali della giuridicità dopo Reinach. FrancoAngeli.

Loddo, O. G. (2020). The background of normative pictures. Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 106(4), 563–583.

Fellows: Giuseppe Lorini, Olimpia Giuliana Loddo

Lorini, G., & Loddo, O. G. (2017). Thinking of norms spatially. Rechtstheorie, 48(2), 197–211.


Fellow: Michael D. Murray

Murray, M. D. (2021). Diagrammatics and the proactive visualization of legal information. University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 43, 1–26.

Murray, M. D. (2020). Cartoon contracts and the proactive visualization of law. University of Massachusetts Law Review, 16.

Murray, M. D. (2022). A new methodology for the analysis of visuals in legal works. FIU Law Review, 16(2), 381–406.


Fellow: Mate Paksy

Paksy, M. (2023). Ubi societas, ibi ius. Le nudging dans la perspective critique du droit en tant que raisonnement pratique. Nomopolis, 1(1), 175–195.

Paksy, M. (2022). Penser le droit rationnellement pour lire le monde juridiquement: Leçons de philosophie du droit. mare & martin.

Paksy, M. (2011). On Hartian Questions of Legal Philosophy. In Legal and Political Theory in the Post-National Age: Selected Papers Presented at the Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists (pp. 31-41). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.


Fellow: Lorenzo Passerini Glazel

Passerini Glazel, L. (2016). Shared norms and nomotrophic behaviour. Phenomenology and Mind, 9, 148–159.

Passerini Glazel, L. (2017). Normative experience: Deontic noema and deontic noesis. Phenomenology and Mind, 13, 96–107.

Passerini Glazel, L. (2020). Grasping an ought: Adolf Reinach’s ontology and epistemology of legal and moral oughts. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica.

Passerini Glazel, L., & Richard, P. (Eds.). (2021). Recherches sur la philosophie du langage normatif: Anthologie de textes de Amedeo Giovanni Conte. Presses de l’Université Laval

Passerini Glazel, L. (2020). Le realtà della norma, le norme come realtà: Saggio di filosofia del diritto. LED Edizioni.


Fellow: Marek Piechowiak

Piechowiak, M. (Ed.). (2008). Norm and truth. School of Humanities and Journalism.

Piechowiak, M. (2008). Can human rights be real? Can norms be true? In M. Piechowiak (Ed.), Norm and truth (pp. 71–83). School of Humanities and Journalism.

Piechowiak, M. (2017). Normas verdaderas a la luz de la justificación axiológica de las normas. In G. Sucar & J. Cerdio Herrán (Eds.), Derecho y verdad (Vol. IV, pp. 655–681).


Fellow: Gregorio Robles-Morchón

Robles Morchón, G. (1998). Teoría del derecho Fundamentos de teoría comunicacional del derecho (Vol. 1). Civitas

Robles-Morchón, G. (1984). Las reglas del derecho y las reglas de los juegos: Ensayo de teoría analítica del derecho. Universidad de Palma de Mallorca.

Robles-Morchón, G. (2024). Ordenamiento, sistema y ámbito jurídico: El método comunicacional y el punto de vista interno. Editorial Reus.


Fellow: Corrado Roversi

Roversi, C. (2018). Constitutive rules and the internal point of view. Argumenta, 4, 139–156.

Roversi, C. (2019). Six heresies on constitutive rules. Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche, 19(2).

Roversi, C. (2021). In defence of constitutive rules. Synthese, 199, 14349–14370.

Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Borghi, A. M., Roversi, C., Benassi, M., & Lugli, L. (2022). Is justice grounded? How expertise shapes conceptual representation of institutional concepts. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2434–2450.


Fellows: Ilenia Ruggiu, Alison Dundes Renteln

Rìos Vega, L. E., Ruggiu, I., & Spigno, I. (Eds.). (2020). Justice and culture: Theory and practice concerning the use of culture in courtrooms. Editoriale Scientifica.


Fellow: Frederick Schauer

Schauer, F. (2019). On the alleged problem of legal normativity. In F. Schauer, C. Bezemek, & N. Bersier Ladavac (Eds.), The normative force of the factual: Legal philosophy between is and ought (pp. 171–180). Springer.

Schauer, F. (2017). Being a reason, having a reason, giving a reason. Analisi e Diritto, 2017, 101–111.


Fellow: Maciej M. Sokolowski

Sokołowski, M. M. (2019). Renewable energy communities in the law of the EU, Australia, and New Zealand. European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 28(2), 34–46.

Sokołowski, M. M. (2020). Laws and policies on electric scooters in the European Union: A ride to the Micromobility Directive? European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 29(4), 127–140.


Fellow: Marek Smolak

Smolak, M. (2021). The interpretative paradigm shift during the period of transformation in Poland. In P. Kwiatkowski & M. Smolak (Eds.), Poznań school of legal theory (pp. 276–289). Brill.

Smolak, M. (2019). The culture of justification and public reason: Comments on the motion of members of the Polish Parliament to the Constitutional Tribunal. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2(20), 29–38.

Smolak, M. (2021). The ontological presuppositions of legal text. In P. Kwiatkowski & M. Smolak (Eds.), Poznań school of legal theory (pp. 291–301). Brill.

Smolak, M. (2021). Public reason – judicial justifications – the judge’s mind. Adam Mickiewicz University Press.


Fellow: Marcilio Toscano Franca

Franca, M. T., & Carneiro, M. F. (2015). Tastes of the law: A guess about the taste of juridicity (A four courses tasting menu). ISLL Papers, 8, 1–19.

Franca, M. T. (2018). The blindness of justice: An iconographic dialogue between art and law. In A. Pavoni, D. Mandic, C. Nirta, & A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Eds.), See (pp. 159–196). University of Westminster Press.

Franca, M. T. (2014). Multisensory law and Italo Calvino’s “Lezioni Americane”. Comparative Law Review, 5(1), 1–20.


Fellow: Bert van Roermund​

van Roermund, B. (2014). Following legal rules: Visibility and feasibility. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 27, 485–494.

van Roermund, B. (2013). Rules as icons: Wittgenstein’s paradox and the law. Ratio Juris, 26(4), 538–559.

van Roermund, B. (2015). Les normes de droit comme images. Comment suivre une règle malgré le paradoxe wittgensteinien. In S. Rahman & J. Sievers (Eds.), Normes et fiction (pp. 155–169). College Publications.


Fellow: Dai Yokomizo

Yokomizo, D. (2014). Sports arbitration in Japan. Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, 7(2), 341–355.

Yokomizo, D. (2014). Conflict of laws in the era of globalization. Japanese Yearbook of International Law, 57, 179–194.

Fellows: Dai Yokomizo, Yuki Asano

Asano, Y., Harada, H., Fujitani, T., & Yokomizo, D. (2016). Globalization and law in a local context: Experiences from the Japanese Research Group on Public and Private Law. SSRN Electronic Journal. .


Fellows: François Schroeter, Laura Schroeter

Schroeter, F., Schroeter, L., & Toh, K. (2020). A new interpretivist metasemantics for fundamental legal disagreements. Legal Theory, 26(1), 62–99.


Fellow: Wojciech Żełaniec​

Żełaniec, W. (2013). Create to rule: Essays on constitutive rules. LED Edizioni