Prof. Beatrice Pasciuta
PhD, is full professor of Legal History at Palermo University – Law School.
She is internationally acknowledged as a leading expert upon the history of law in medieval Sicily and Southern Italy. She has published editions of numerous Latin documents, and many studies on the legal foundations of the society of medieval Sicily. She is actually co-investigator and local P.I. in the research project “DocuMult”. Documenting Multiculturalism Co-existence, law and multiculturalism in the administrative and legal documents of Norman and Hohenstaufen Sicily, c.1060-c.1266 (ERC Advanced Grant n.787342 – University of Oxford University of Palermo); she is also co-investigator and local P.I. in the research project “Religious Precept and Legal Norm. The Life and History of the Foundamental Dialectic of the Western Legal Tradition” (P.R.I.N. granted by Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research). She is Research Associate of University of Oxford, Correspondant à l'étranger of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She was Visiting Professor at Universidad de Navarra and at the EHESS and Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. She has been invited for shorter periods to give talks by many Universities, among which: Yale University (2019), University of Taipei (2015), Columbia University (2017), University of California at Berkeley (2017-19), and some other Italian, German, Spanish and French universities. She promoted and coordinates "Women and rights. Observatory of legal history" (www.unipa.it/storichedeldiritto), which brings together teachers and researchers belonging to over 20 Italian universities, aims to provide students and scholars bibliographic materials for the study of issues concerning the history of legal status of women. She is part of the Steering Group of the Project "Department of Excellence" (Department of Law – University of Palermo).
Contact: beatrice.pasciuta@unipa.it.
Dr. Marta Cerrito
PhD, is a Researcher at the University of Palermo.
Her main research interests include the history of criminal law, legal historiography with a special focus on issues concerning the medieval period. She is graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Law, University of Rome “Roma Tre”. She carried out her research in Italy (Rome and Palermo), at the University of California - Berkeley (Robbins Collection Fellowship), in Paris at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in Frankfurt am Main at the Library of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPI) and at the University of Oxford as Visiting Scholar (Wolfson College). She is currently part of the ERC project “Documenting Multiculturalism" (ERC Advanced Grant n.787342 – University of Oxford – University of Palermo) and also of the research project “Religious Precept and Legal Norm. The Life and History of the Fundamental Dialectic of the Western Legal Tradition” (P.R.I.N.).
Contact: marta.cerrito@unipa.it.
Dr. Francesco Di Chiara
Assistant Professor (Ricercatore B) in Legal History at University of Palermo.
He is interested in the History of Medieval and Modern Law. He has mainly published on the case law of Supreme Courts in early modern period and on the Spanish Inquisition. He studied law at the Palermo University. He obtained his Ph.D in History and comparison of European political and legal institutions from the Messina University. He carried out his research in Italy and in Frankfurt am Main at the Library of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPI). He was Visiting Professor at Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Academia IDH) de la Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (Mexico). He is currently part of the research project “Religious Precept and Legal Norm. The Life and History of the Fundamental Dialectic of the Western Legal Tradition” (P.R.I.N). He is also part of the editorial board of Akademía. Revista internacional y comparada de derechos humanos.
Contact: dichiara@unipa.it
Dr. Anna Floris
PhD, Research Fellow at the University of Palermo. Anna Floris graduated in Law with highest honours at the University of Trento (IT). She holds a PhD (cum laude) in European and Comparative Legal Studies from the University of Trento, where she specialised in the legal thought of the late Middle Ages. She pursued her research as a visiting scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and at the University of California – Berkeley, where she obtained a fellowship at the Robbins Collection (Berkeley Law). Her research interests include (but are not limited to) the legal history of late medieval Sardinia and the origins and development of the genre of the quaestio in legal literature. She joined the FONTES Project team in Palermo in 2022.
Contact: annamariagrazia.floris@unipa.it
Dr. Guido Rossi
Guido Rossi received his doctorate from Cambridge University. After a short spell at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, he moved to Edinburgh University in 2013, where he served first as a Lecturer and then as a Reader in European Legal History. He is currently a Research Fellow at Palermo University.
Contact: guido.rossi01@unipa.it