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About
Igor Stramignoni has taught generations of students around the world and has published research probing the very boundaries of our understanding of what the law is and how the law works. He holds advanced law degrees from LUISS, Cornell, and Oxford, and has been the recipient of multiple awards from Italy’s CNR, the British Academy, and other distinguished research institutions.
Research
Research Interests
Research interests include contemporary theory, legal history, comparative legal studies, law and literature, and law and the visual.
Publications
- 'The Pasts of Law. Koselleck, Didi-Huberman and Sanmartino's Cristo Velato in Naples' Law & Literature (2026) 1–43
- 'Nachleben der antike, time, and restitution: notes for a nocturnal jurisprudence of the image' (2024) Law and Critique
- 'Figuring out justice in dark times: on law, history, and the visual' (2022) Law & Humanities
- ‘Images of Law’, LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers 1/2020, pp 1 -41
- Book review: Anti-Nietzsche. LSE Review of Books (12 Nov 2012) Blog Entry
- 'Seizing Truths: Art, Politics, Law', in O. Ben-Dor (ed.), Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics (Routledge, 2011), pp. 73 - 92
- ‘Le Regard de la Comparaison: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida’ (The Gaze of Comparison), in P Legrand (ed) Comparer les droits, résolument (Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2009), pp. 147 – 178
- 'Badiou's Nocturnal Jurisprudence' 29 Cardozo Law Review 2361-2393 (2008)
- 'Categories and Concepts: Mapping Maps in Western Legal Thought' 1 International Journal of Law in Context 411–426 (2005)
- 'Francesco’s Devilish Venus: Notations on Legal Space' 41 California Western Law Review 147–240 (2004)
- 'Meditating Comparisons, or the Question of Comparative Law’, 4 San Diego International Law Journal 57–90 (2003)
- ‘The King’s One Too Many Eyes: Language, Thought and Comparative Law’, 2002 The Utah Law Review 739–773 (2002)
- ‘Soggetto di diritto e diritti (fondamentali) del soggetto: Autonomia, linguaggio e diritto comparato’, Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato 223–243 (2002)
- ‘At the Margins of the History of English Law The Institutional, the Political and the “Blotted Out”’, 22 Legal Studies 420-447 (2002)
- ‘When Law Stands Still: Land Contracts in English Law and Law’s Abandonment of Everyday Life’, 12 Law & Critique 105–134 (2001)
- ‘Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence’, 117 The Law Quarterly Review 340–343 (2001)
- 'A Simple Straightforward Rule’: Diritto, Abbandono e Land Contracts in Diritto Inglese’ Rivista Italiana di Diritto Commerciale e delle Obbligazioni 417–443 (2000)
- 'At the Dawn of Part Performance : a Hypothesis' 18 The Journal of Legal History 32-46 (1997)
- 'Abuse of Rights in Europe: An Outline' Nanzan Hogaku Vol. 20 No.1 (1996) 196
Teaching
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External Activities
Igor Stramignoni is a member of the Editorial Boards of:
- The International Journal of Law in Context (Cambridge University Press)
- The Edinburgh Studies in Law, Justice, and the Visual
He is also qualified for the Italian bar.