Web page: www.mariolosano.it
Update: March 15th, 2014.
Birth: Casale Monferrato (Alessandria, Italy), 1939, october 5th
Citizenship, Nationality: Italian
Present Position: Professor emeritus of Legal Philosophy; Professor, Scuola di Dottorato in Diritti e Istituzioni, Università degli Studi di Torino.
Doctor Honoris Causa:
2004 (November 5th): Law School, Leibniz-Universität, Hanover (Germany);
2008 (June 12th): Facultad de derecho, Universidad de la República, Montevideo (Uruguay);
2009 (June 9th): Facultad de derecho, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Spain).
2013 (November 14th): Professor honoris causa, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
Qualifications:
1966: Attorney at Law, Milan Bar Association.
1970: Journalist, Milan Journalists Association.
Awards:
1971: Prix International des Hautes Synthèses, Nizza (France);
1971: Honeywell Award for scientific journalism, Milano (Italy);
1975: Medalha do Gaúcho, Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil);
1995: Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungspreis, Bonn (Germany).
2015: Honorary Fellow and Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary Club, District 2032, Casale Monferrato (Italy).
2015: Gold Medal, Ordine degli Avvocati, Milan (Italy).
Honours:
- “Comendador da Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul”, Brasília, Brazil (25 ottobre 2002);
- “Oesterreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse”, Austria (26 aprile 2012).
Academies:
- Accademia delle Scienze, Torino;
- Academia Pernambucana de Letras, Recife (Brazil);
- Academia Pernambucana de Letras Jurídicas, pure di Recife (Brazil);
- Academia Sergipana de Letras, Aracaju (Brazil);
- "Miembro de Honor", Instituto de Informática Jurídica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo (Uruguay).
Scientific Societies:
- Associación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (Ahila);
- Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi (Aistugia);
- Instituto Tobias Barreto de Educação e Cultura, Aracaju (Brazil);
- Internationales Kuratorium, Hans-Kelsen-Institut, Viena (Austria);
- Italian and German Chapter of the "Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie" (IVR); past Secretary General of the Italian chapter of IVR: 1968-1972;
Publications:
He has thus far published more than 50 books and more than 500 scientific articles. Writings of him has been translaten into 12 languages. He translated into Italian, among other works, textes of Hans Kelsen and Rudolf von Jhering from German; of Raymond Boudon from French; from W. N. Hohfeld from English. In German he published in three volumes the critical edition of Rudolf von Jhering’s letters and one volume of Hermann Roesler’s essays on Japan. In French he edited the unpublished manuscript of the lessons on legal philosophy held 1889 in Tokyo by Alessandro Paternostro.
1974 he prepared one of the first European data bases on legislation; in the field of e-publishing he edited 1987 on CD-ROM the Enciclopedia Einaudi and, in 1988, he produced the first Italian CD-ROM with judicial decisions. 1987 he authored a draft on privacy legislation and 1997 the first commentary on the Italian Privacy Act.
For the full bibliography please refer to this Web page, Section: "Bibliografia".
University career:
1966-1970: Assistant Professor of General Theory of Law, Law School, Università degli Studi di Pavia;
- 1970-1972: Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy, Law School, Università degli Studi di Torino;
1969-70: Professor of Political Philosophy, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Milano;
1971 "libera docenza" in Legal Philosophy;
1970-71: Professor of General Theory of Law;
1976: Full Professor of Legal Philosophy;
1986-88: Extraordinary Professor of General Theory of Law, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Milano;
1989-2004: Full Professor of General Theory of Law, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Milano;
2002-2009: Full Professor of Legal Philosophy and Computer and Law, Law School, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria (Italy); and specifically:
- 2002-2004: Full Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano e del Piemonte Orientale;
- 2004 (November 1st)-2007 (October, 31st): Full Professor, Facoltà di Matematica, Fisica e Scienze and Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche ed Economiche, Università del Piemonte Orientale (Alessandria).
- 2007 (November 1st) – 2009 (October, 31st) Full Professor, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università del Piemonte Orientale Alessandria).
2010 (1° February 1st): Professor “Emeritus” of Legal Philosophy and Computer and Law, Law School, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria (Italy).
Also served as:
1982-1985 and 1985-1988: President of the Computing Centre, Università degli Studi di Milano;
1988-1991: Professor of “Theory and Practice of Computing Machines”, Scuola Superiore di Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano;
1992-1995: Director of "Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica" (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR: i.e. Research Council), Firenze (Italy).
1998 (Winter Term): Visiting Professor (History of German Private Law), Law School, University of Hanover (Germany).
From 1974 on (yearly): lectures in Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay.
Visiting Professor, long and mid term teaching, research fellow, member of doctoral commissions (in alphabetical order) at:
Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid, Spain;
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany;
Leibniz-Universität, Hannover, Germany;
London School of Economics, Londra, Great Britain;
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany;
Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;
Universidad de Alicante, Spain;
Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay;
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia;
Universidad de Valencia, Spain;
Universidade Autónoma, Lisboa, Portugal;
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil;
Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil;
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil;
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil;
Universidade Nova, Lisboa, Portugal;
Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris X), Paris, France;
Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), Paris, France;
University of Hong Kong;
University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain;
University of Tokyo, Japan;
Yale Law School, New Haven, USA.
Research Projects:
From 1970 he received almost yearly research allowances from the Italian Reasearch Council (CNR) and from the Italian Ministry of Public Education, as well as from foreign institutions. Recent research projects:
- Universidad de Valencia, Facultad de Derecho: Proyecto I+D, Diversidad cultural: conflicto y derecho; convocado por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid (ref. BJU 2001-2139)
- Universidad de Valencia, Facultad de Derecho: Proyecto I+D "Empleo y exclusión social: rentas mínimas y otros mecanismos de inserción sociolaboral (SEJ2004-07731/JURI del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid)".
- Universidad de Valencia, Facultad de Derecho: Los límites de la protección de la intimidad y a los nuevos conflictos sociales y el papel de la privacidad (Proyecto SEJ2006-06663/JURI y Proyecto P07-FGM-02870).
- Universidad Carlos III, Proyecto Consolider-Ingenio 2020, El tiempo de los derechos (CSD2008-00007): 3 textos para la Historia de los derechos fundamentales: Pluralismo religioso y político: Turquia; Constitución alemana; Constitución brasileña.
- coordenador da pesquisa concedida com o Edital Universal 2008 (CNPq - 477476/2008-2- Edital MCT/CNPq 14/2008 - Universal - Faixa A), com o título A filosofia do direito entre o internacional e o local, em face dos direitos humanos, (CNPq - 477476/2008-2- Edital MCT/CNPq 14/2008 - Universal - Faixa A), interfaculdades (UEMG, USP, UFPB, Unipê-PB).
- Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Experiencias jurídicas en el derecho privado entre América Latina y Europa en la primera midad del siglo XX (1901-1945), 2009-2012.
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