Michele Luminati

Michele Luminati (born January 26, 1960 in Poschiavo ) is a Swiss legal historian .

Life

Luminati studied law at the University of Zurich , where he obtained his doctorate in 1995 with a dissertation on disaster management in Sicily in the 18th century . During the following activity as senior assistant in Zurich , he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the history of the Italian judiciary after 1945. He has been working at the University of Lucerne since 2002, initially as an associate professor, and since 2004 as a full professor of legal history, contemporary legal history and legal theory. In 2008 the University of Zurich appointed him adjunct professor . From 2013 to 2016 he was director of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma .

His research interests are the history of constitutional and administrative law in modern times, the history of the city of Italy, European judicial history in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of criminal law in Switzerland and judicial theory.

Fonts (selection)

• Earthquake in Noto. Crisis and Disaster Management in the Baroque Age . Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7255-3327-X .
• Priest of Themis. Judicial self-image in Italy after 1945 . Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-465-04035-X .
• as editor with Ulrich Falk and Mathias Schmoeckel : With the eyes of legal history. Legal cases - commented self-critically . Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-8258-0370-8 .
• as editor with Wolfgang W. Müller and Enno Rudolph : Scope and Limits of Interpretation. Philosophy, theology and law in conversation . Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-7965-2673-2 .

Web links

• Michele Luminati on the website of the University of Lucerne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luminati, Michele. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on April 16, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).