Research Interests

Digital and Comparative Philosophy
Topology of Complex Social Networks
History of Ideas and General Theory of Law

Subjects Taught

Comparative Privacy Law (spring)

Biography

Ugo Pagallo is a full Professor in Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Turin, since 2000. He graduated cum laude at the University of Bologna (1983) and he is member of the National Bar Association of Italy since 1986. PhD in Philosophy of Law at the University of Padua (1990), he previously taught at the Universities of Chieti, Bari, and at the Military Academy of Modena. Former director of the e-journal L’ircocervo (www.filosofiadeldiritto.it) in 2001-2003, he is currently chief editor of the Digitalica series published by Giappichelli in Turin. Member of the Internationale Vereinung Rechtsphilosophie, the Italian Society of Philosophy of Law, and the Institut International d’Études Européennes, he worked with the doctoral programs of the University of Padua (1996-2000), and of Turin (since 2000) where he directed the PhD program on “Computer Science and Law” (2004-2006). He has coordinated various national research-projects, among which Masters of Legal Thought in 20th Century-Italy (2001) and The Principle of Subsidiarity (2004). In the last years, he has also delivered lectures at the universities of Helsinki, New York (IVR), Madrid (Complutense), Caracas (UCV), Buenos Aires (UCA), Honolulu, Tokyo (Meiji), China (Kunming), Stanford CA., Washington D.C. (Georgetown), and at the European University of Fiesole, Florence. His main research interests are Digital and Comparative Philosophy, Topology of Complex Social Networks, History of Ideas and General Theory of Law, especially applied to transformations in European and International Law. In addition to numerous essays in scholarly journals, as “Hobbes Studies” (1997-8) “Revista de filosofía práctica” (2001-4), “Journal of Chinese Philosophy” (2005), and “Apuntes filosóficos” (2007), he is the author of seven monographs, among which Testi e contesti dell’ordinamento giuridico (20013), Alle fonti del diritto (2002), Introduzione alla filosofia digitale (2005), Teoria giuridica della complessità (2006), and editor of Prolegomeni d’informatica giuridica (2003).

(English)

1. U. Pagallo, Aliquid Est Sine Ratione: On Some Philosophical Consequences of Chaitin’s Quest for O, in Randomness and Complexity. From Leibniz to Chaitin, edited by C. Calude, World Scientific: Singapore 2007, pp. 287-300;
2. U. Pagallo, “Small world” Paradigm and Empirical Research in Legal Ontologies: A Topological Approach, in The Multilanguage Complexity of European Law: Methodologies in Comparison, edited by G. Ajani, G. Peruginelli, G. Sartor, and D. Tiscornia, European Press Academic Publishing: Florence 2007, pp. 195-210;
3. U. Pagallo, “Small World” Paradigm in Social Sciences: Problems and Perspectives, in Glocalisation: Bridging the Global Nature of Information and Communication Technology and the Local Nature of Human Beings, edited by T. Ward Bynum, S. Rogerson, and K. Murata, e-SCM Research Center and University of Meiji: Tokyo 2007, pp. 456-465;
4. U. Pagallo and G. Ruffo, On the Growth of Collaborative and Competitive Networks: Opportunities and New Challenges, in Ethicomp Working Conference 2007, edited by S. Rogerson e H. Yang, Yunnan University 2007, pp. 92-97;
5. U. Pagallo and G. Ruffo, P2P Systems in Legal Networks: Another “Small World” Case, in “Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law”, Acm, Stanford, CA. 2007, pp. 287-288;
6. U. Pagallo, Plato’s Daoism and the Tübingen School, in “Journal of Chinese Philosophy”, 2005, 32, 4, pp. 597-613.

(Italian)

1. U. Pagallo, Gödel e il diritto, in La complessità di Gödel, edited by G. Lolli e U. Pagallo, Giappichelli: Torino 2008, pp. 113-124;
2. U. Pagallo, Fuor di metafora: Il caso della “rete nel diritto” tra fondamenti e cognizione di causa, in I fondamenti cognitivi del diritto, edited by R. Caterina, Mondadori, Milano 2008, pp. 149-156;
3. U. Pagallo, Bobbio a Padova. La natura dei fatti normativi alle prese con il fenomeno dell’“entanglement”, in Metodo Linguaggio Scienza del diritto. Omaggio a Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004), a cura di A. Punzi, Giuffrè, Milano 2007, pp. 327-351;
4. U. Pagallo, Teoria giuridica della complessità. Dalla “polis primitiva” di Socrate ai “mondi piccoli” dell’informatica – Un approccio evolutivo, Giappichelli, Torino 2006, pp. 276;
5. U. Pagallo, Introduzione alla filosofia digitale. Da Leibniz a Chaitin, Giappichelli, Torino 2005, pp. 160;
6. U. Pagallo (edited by), Privacy digitale. Giuristi e informatici a confronto, Giappichelli, Torino 2005.