Maria Sole TESTUZZA
Assistant Professor
Maria Sole Testuzza is Associate Professor in Medieval and Modern Legal History. She holds a degree in Law cum laude from the University of Catania (2003) and a PhD in History of Law from the University of Macerata (2008). From November 2009 to November 2010 she joined the Laboratory for the Protection of Human Rights, Scuola Superiore di Catania (University of Catania) as Researcher. She worked at the Department of Law, University of Catania (Jan. 2011-Jan. 2017), and at Department of Legal Sciences, University of Florence (Jul. 2017-Jun. 2018), as Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval and Modern Legal History. She has been Visiting Researcher at the Technische Universität Dresden (2008); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2013; 2014, 2021); Berkeley School of Law (2009; 2010; 2017); Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main (2018).
On August 28th, 2018, she earned the Italian National Academic Qualification as Full Professor.
Her research interests focus on the normative construction of the modern state and the legal subject; the definition of models of citizenship and political obligation; the relations between law and body and those between law and food; the foundations of human rights. Her publications include Tra cielo e terra. I congegni dell’obbedienza medievale, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011; “Ius corporis, quasi ius de corpore disponendi”. Il Tractatus de potestate in se ipsum di Baltasar Gómez de Amescúa, Milano, Giuffrè, 2016; Cibo e pratiche alimentari tra diritto e religione. Strategie euristiche dell'età premoderna, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno, 2018.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 1° Year
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 1° Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LAW R - Z
ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 1° Year
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 1° Year
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LAW R - Z
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 1° Year
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS