Federico Puppo
Coordinator
Doctoral programme – Comparative and European legal studies
Full professor
Faculty of Law
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2000-2008 Fellow of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, Trento. 14.06.2000 Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Magna cum laude with a thesis on “Fuzzy Law. On the application of fuzzy logic to legal reasoning” ("Fuzzy law. Sull’applicazione della logica fuzzy al ragionamento giudiziale” |
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Academic career and teaching activities |
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Full professor of Philosophy of Law (SSD 12/H3) Faculty of Law, Trento 2014 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law (SSD 12/H3) Faculty of Law, Trento 2008 Assistant professor of Philosophy of Law (SSD 12/H3) Faculty of Law, Trento 2006-2008 Fellowship, Faculty of Law 2005 Tenure (University of Trento) Bachelor Degree Comparative European International Legal Studies - Philosophy of Law - Informatics and Legal Research (Informatics and the Law) Five-year Degree Course Filosofia del Diritto (K-Z) Deontologia delle professioni forensi Tenure (Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck), Filosofia del Diritto |
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Research interests |
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Philosophy of Law Legal rhetoric, argumentation and logic Legal Ethics Informatics and the Law Legal Methodology |
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Research work |
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Research project 2019 POT-V.A.L.E., progetto Piano di Orientamento e Tuturato per la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Trento. 2012 2011 2000
Membership 2019 Membro del WG2, per la Cost Action CA17132 - European network for argumentation and public policy analysis. 2018 - Referente per la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza nel progetto "E-Du-Ca: E-Learning for Dual Career", progetto strategico di Ateneo 2018-2021 (responsabile prof. Paolo Bouquet) . - Membro del gruppo di lavoro della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza nel progetto "International Migration Laboratory", progetto strategico di Ateneo 2018-2021 (responsabile prof. Fulvio Cortese). 2015 Membro del gruppo di lavoro della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza nel progetto "LIL - Living Integration Law", progetto strategico di Ateneo 2015-2016 (responsabili proff. Giuseppe Nesi e Giuseppe Sciortino). 2008
2017 "Saper dire e saper fare: l'argomentazione come sapere trasversale", Progetto Strategico di Ateneo 2018-2021 (responsabile insieme al prof. Maurizio Manzin). 2012 "Nuovi modelli di soluzione del conflitto: mediazione, conciliazione, giustizia riparativa. Forme, metodo, sviluppi normativi", FIRB "Futuro in Ricerca 2012" (responsabile dell'Unità di Ricerca di Trento). 2007 "S.O.S. Schemes and Ontologies for the Semantic Description of Legal Documents", ERC-2007-StG, ERC Starting Grants (European Commission, 7th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstratio) (Principal Investigator). |
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Memberships in societies and scientific committees |
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2004-2021 IVR – InternationaleVereinigung für Rechts und Sozialphilosophie e della SIFGP - Società Italiana di Filosofia Giuridica e Politica (nowadays: SIFD - Società Italiana di Filosofia del Diritto). 2008-2021 ISSA – International Society for the Study of Argumentation. 2012-2021 RSE Rhetoric Society of Europe (enlisted). |
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Awards and honours |
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2007 |
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Conferences and lectures |
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International (INVITED SPEAKER): 2019 - "Nature, Language and Reason in a Rhetorical Perspective. The Newness of the 2017 - Talk on “Legal Reasoning and Judicial Interpretation” at the “Italy Brazil Law Seminars”, Trento, Italy, December 4-6, 2017 - "Endoxa Which Are True and Endoxa Which Could Be True. The Aletic Status of Premises in Argumentation", International Conference "The Impact of the European Institutions on the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protection in Central and Eastern Europe", Nova univerza in Slovenia, Graduate School of Government and European Studies and European Faculty of Law, Kranj, 10-11.11.2017. - "Formule di stile e argomentazione nei discorsi giuridici", "Le ragioni della Cortesia-III Seminario di ricerca", Istituto di Studi Italiani-ISI, USI-Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 29.5.2017. 2016 - “On the Nature of Philosophy of Law”, “2a Conferência Itália-Brasil de Direito, Aprofundando a Pesquisa”, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – FDUFMG, Belo Horizonte, 20.10.2016. - “On the Vagueness of (Legal) Language”,“2a International Conference Brazil-Italy: Law and Development – Deeping Scientific Research”, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Faculdade de Direito Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo, San Paolo, Brasile, 17.10.2016. - Special Guest Lecture "Vagueness of language, paradoxes and logic(s): Aristotle vs. Megarians", Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor, Canada, 18.7.2016. - Special Guest Lecture "Legal reasoning and legal knowledge: an overview from a legal philosophical point of view", Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 14.7.2016. 2014 - "Legal reasoning in a comparative perspective" alla 1st International Conference "The Italian and Brasilian Legal Systems: Convergences and Divergences", Università di Trento, Italia, 6-7.11.2014. - "Argumentation in Trial: How to Be Logic with a Vague Language", Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest, Ungheria, 20.5.2014. 2013 - "The persuasion of vagueness", Croatian Philological Association-Phonetic Session, Zagabria, Croazia, 29.1.2013. - "Argumentation in Law", Università di Zagabria, Zagabria, Croazia, 28.1.2013. 2012 "Vagueness of Language and Law" all'ArgLab Research Colloquium, Institute for the Philosophy of Language (IFL), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 24.9.2012. 2011 “Language and Rhetoric in the Perspective of Legal Logic”, “Atelier Argumentation à Lyon – ArguLyon”, Université Lyon2-ICAR, Lyon, Francia, 9.3.2011. 2007 - "The Reform of Public Administration", North-West Academy of Public Administration, Kaluga, Russian Federation, 14.4.2009. - “Legal Rhetoric. A Classical Approach to Legal Reasoning”, North-West Academy of Public Administration, Kaluga, Russian Federation, 13.4.2009. - “Legal Informatics and Legal Theory: Principles and Perspectives”, North-West Academy of Public Administration, Kaluga, Russian Federation, 13.4.2009. 2007 “Logic and Vagueness in Law. From Legal Positivism to the Post-hartian Debate in Legal Theory”, Language and Communication Technologies Colloquia (KRDB Research Center, LIC Laboratory of CIMeC), Rovereto, Italia, 22.2.2007. (PAPER ACCEPTED): 2020 - "Harmony in diversity. The ‘Canadian’ school of argumentation", 12th OSSA Conference, "Evidence, Persuasion & Diversity", June 3-6, 2020, Windsor University, Canada. 2019 - "Language, rhetoric and the law. The linguistic essence of human being", Rhetoric in Society 7. "Rhetoric as Equipment for Living", September 11-13, 2019, Ghent University, Belgium; - "Towards the heart of rhetorics (moving from legal philosophy): a dialogue with Christopher Tindale", 3rd European Conference on Argumentation – ECA 2019 "Reason to Dissent", June 24-27 2019, Groningen, The Netherlands. 2018 - "Dressed arguments in legal speeches: the use of style formulas, maxims and Latinisms" (insieme a M. Manzin e S. Tomasi), 9th International Conference on Argumentation (ISSA 2018), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 3-6.7.2018. - "The strenght of Exemplum: A Possible Place for Visual Argumentation in Legal Ethics", "IV International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric)", Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croazia, 18-21.4.2018 - "Style formulas and arguments in legal speeches" (together with M. Manzin e S. Tomasi) International Conference "Argumentation & Language: ArgAge 2018", USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Svizzera, 7-9.2.2018. 2017 - "Legal Reasoning and Judicial Interpretation", "Italy Brazil Law Seminars", Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Trento, 4-6.12.2017. - "May endoxa be true? A (possible) realistic account of truth for legal argumentation" alla 2nd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2017), Fribourg, Svizzera, 20-23.6.2017. 2016 - "Legal Interpretation as Legal Argumentation. A Possible Place for Truth in Law(?)" alla 8th Conference on Legal Theory, Legal Argumentation and Legal Philosophy "LegArg 2016 - Modern Legal Interpretation: Legalism or Beyond", European Faculty of Law &School of Government and European Studies, Ljubljana, 18-19.11.2016. - "Moral Dilemmas and Legal Profession: the Role of Argumentation in Legal Ethics" III International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric), Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croazia, 20-23.04.2016. 2015 - "The influence of informatics on legal argumentation: the case of digital evidence in criminal proceedings" alla 1th European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2015), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, 9-12.6.2015. - "Due process and the rule of law: the role of argumentation in the defence of a fair trial" alla International Conference on Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law (Legal Argumentation 2015), University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 25-26.6.2015. 2014 - "A rhetorical analysis of legal discourse. Applying Quintilian's categories to forensic speech", 8th International Conference on Argumentation (ISSA 2014), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1-4.7.2014. - "ICT in trial and the use of rhetoric" alla II International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric), Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croazia, 23-26.4.2014. 2013 "'Strong' and 'weak' dialogue: two different perspectives on rhetorical argumentation in legal context", 1th International Conference 2013: Rhetoric in Europe, Saarland, 9-13.10.2013 2012 "Is There A Fact in the Trial? A Rhetorical Account of Legal Logic", First Croatian International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric), Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croatia, 19-22.4.2012. 2011 “‘Building’ the fact in trial: a rhetorical account”, 13th Conference on “Argumentation: Cognition&Community” of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA 2011), Windsor, Canada, 18-21.5.2011 2010 “Vagueness of language and judicial rhetoric” alla 7th Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA2010), Amsterdam, 29.6-2.7.2010. 2007 “A classical view on law and information technologies”, XXIII Convegno Internazionale IVR 2007 “Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st century: Diversity and Unity”, Cracow, 1-6.8.2007. 2005 2003 2001 TSM-TEACHING STAFF MOBILITY ERASMUS&ERASMUS+: 2009-16
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER 2018 IV International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric), Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croatia, 18-21.4.2018. 2016 III International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric), Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croatia, 20-23.4.2016. CHAIRMAN 2018 - 9th International Conference on Argumentation (ISSA 2018), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 3-6.7.2018. - IV International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric)", Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croazia, 18-21.4.2018. - “Argumentation & Language-ARGAGE 2018”, USI - Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Svizzera, 7-9.2.2018. 2016 - GTR16-Trento Days on Rhetoric 2016 / 7th ISLL- Italian Society for Law & Literature, "A Picture of Law. Multimodal Argumentation, Pluralism and Images in Law", Trento, 16-17.6.2016. - III International Conference on Rhetoric (in honor of Ivo Skaric), Isola di Brac (Brazza), Croazia, 20-23.4.2016. 2015 - International Conference on Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law (Legal Argumentation 2015), University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 25-26.6.2015; - GTR15-Trento Days on Rhetoric 2015 / GTR15, "Visual Argumentation & Reasonableness in Judicial Debate Trento, 17-19.6.2015. |