Dennis Patterson

Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 245 / 306
Fax [+39] 055 4685 200

Email Dennis.Patterson@eui.eu 

Secretary/Administrative Assistant Marlies Becker 

EUI Law Department
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze - Italy

Appointed in September 2009, contract renewable in September 2014 

Research and Supervision 

• Legal Philosophy (including general jurisprudence, social and political philosophy)
• International Trade Law
• American Contract and Commercial Law
• Theory of International Law
• International Economic Law (Global Equality and Justice)

Languages 

English, German, Italian, French (reading), Spanish (reading)

Current Seminars at the EUI 

• Global Justice  (with R. Rubio Marin )
• Advanced Course in Jurisprudence: Law, Interpretation and Rights  (with G. Sartor )
• Law and Neuroscience 
• I Grandi Filosofi Italiani del Diritto  (with H. Micklitz )

Current Research Projects 

• a monograph on general jurisprudence
• a series of articles on law and neuroscience (with Prof. Michael Pardo)
• a monograph on the foundations of international law

Recently Published Books 

• The New Global Trading Order 
• Diritto e verità 
• A Companion to Legal Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory