Massimo La Torre

Visiting Professor of European Law

Country: Italy

Academic degrees: Dott.Giur., Dott.Sc.Pol., Ph.D.

Other positions: European Forum Alpbach Chair 2022

Previous positions: Professor of Philosophy of Law, “Magna Graecia” University of Catanzaro, Italy, Professor of Law, University of Hull, U.K. Professor of Law, University of Tallinn, Estonia

Research areas: Philosophy of Law, Legal Ethics, European Law

Courses: Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory, Past and Future of the European Union, Bioethics, Legal Ethics

Notable publications: 

• People on the Move: Migrants, Exile and Citizenship, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2020 (ISSN: 0034-1398)
• Bioetica in tempi di pandemia. Morale, diritto e libertà, DeriveApprodi, Roma 2022   (ISBN: 978-8865484203)
• La justicia de la tortura.Sobre Derecho y fuerza, Trotta, Madrid 2022 (ISBN: 978-84-1364-082-2 ) 
• El espejo del jurista, Jueces, abogados y teoria del derecho, Zeca, Lima 2022.
• Angry Times. Populism and Democracy Discontent, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2023 (edited together with I. Grauberg and B. van Klink) https://www.amazon.es/Derecho-Massimo-Torre-Libros/s?i=stripbooks&rh=n%…

Notable projects: 

• A book on anarchism & law with Edinburgh University Press, UK,  a book on the meaning of rules with DeriveApprodi, a publisher established in Rome, Italy
• University of Tallinn Global Forum conferences on (i) Robert Alexy’s theory, on (ii) European Union crisis, on (iii) migration & citizenship, on (iv) populism and on  (v) the Modern  State 
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Award