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Flora DI DONATO
SNSF Post-doc
Center for Migration Law
University of Neuchâtel
Rue de Breguet 1 – 2000 Neuchâtel
Tel. prof.: ++41 (0)32 718 1595
email: [email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT POSITION
December 2013–present
SNSF Post-doc
Habilitation as professor of Philosophy of Law
(Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale - Italy)
TEACHING & ACADEMIC
ACTIVITIES
December 2014–January 2015
Invited Lecturer at HES-Genève
Course: Approche clinique du droit (TS, ONG and
human rights).
January 2010–January 2013
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law at the
Open University Pegaso (I), Faculty of Law. Courses:
Philosophy of Law, Theory of Interpretation and
Argumentation, Sociology of Law.
September 2008–March 2009
Adjunct Professor of Sociology of Law at the
University of
Salerno (I), Faculty of Education
Sciences. Course: Laboratory of Sociology.
February 2007–August 2009
Adjunct Professor of Public Law at the University
of Salerno (I), Faculty of Education Science. Course:
Istituzioni di Diritto Pubblico.
February 2007–March 2008
Adjunct Professor of Theory of Interpretation
and Argumentation at the University of Naples
“Federico II”, Faculty of Law.
December 2003–February 2007
PhD Fellow at the University of Naples “Federico II”,
Faculty of Law. Seminars: Multiculturalism and Legal
Pluralism; Post-modern Theories of Law; Facts in
the Trial: Law and Narration.
December 2002–November 2003
Adjunct Professor of Legal Computer Science at the
University of Naples “Federico II”, Faculty of Law.
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RESEARCH GRANTS AND
THIRD PARTY GRANTS
January 2015
September 2013
October 2011–January 2013
Visiting scholarship (travel/lodging) granted by the
University of Girona to take part at the Scientific
Journey “Un giurista pluridisciplinar: en torno al
pensamiento de Michele Taruffo”.
Visiting scholarship (travel/lodging) granted by the
New York University to take part at the 2013 Clinical
Law Review Writers’ Workshop.
Dual career program (funded by CRUS with the
support of the Center for Migration Law and the Faculty
of Arts - University of Neuchâtel).
July 2007–June 2008
Post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Research
Center for European Institutions (CRIE) Naples-I.
January 2004–January 2007
Doctoral fellowship funded by the University of
Naples “Federico II”, Faculty of Law.
April 2006–May 2006
Visiting scholarship at the New York University
School of Law funded by the University of Naples
“Federico II”.
May 2004–June 2004
van Calker fellowship from the Swiss Institute of
Comparative Law (ISDC), Lausanne.
September 2002–July2003
Visiting scholarship at the University of Neuchâtel,
(Institute of Psychology and Education), funded by the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
May 2002–July 2002
Visiting scholarship at the University of Neuchâtel,
(Institute of Psychology and Education), funded by the
Italian CNR and Swiss FNS (free exchange agreement).
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
May 2004- May 2006
Scientific collaboration with the Department of Civil,
Economic and Social Relations at the University of Naples
“Federico II” for the Research project of national interest
(PRIN): The Contribution of the Italian Supreme Court in
the Evolution of Labour Law (directors professors R. De
Luca Tamajo and F. Bianchi D’Urso).
April 2002-March 2003
Scientific collaboration with the Department of Theory
and History of Law at the University of Salerno for the
Research project: Integration: the ethical-legal and
psychosocial dimension of the Juvenile Legislation
(director prof. A. Abignente).
June 2000-May 2001
Scientific collaboration with the Education Sciences
Department at the University of Salerno to edit a
Collection of Juvenile Law (national and regional laws on
childhood and adolescence from the 1970th) in the
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framework of the Campania Regional Observatory for
Childhood and Adolescence (under the direction of prof.
P. Boggi Cavallo).
EDUCATION
February 2007
PhD in Philosophy of Law at the University of Naples
“Federico II” and the University of Neuchâtel (cotutorship). Title of the dissertation: La costruzione
giudiziaria del fatto/La construction judiciaire du fait
juridique. (Co-directors: professors A. Abignente & P.
Mahon). Summa cum laude/Excellent.
July 1997
Degree in Law awarded by the University of Salerno (I).
Title of the dissertation Max Weber: tipi di poteri legittimi e
modelli istituzionali. Summa cum laude.
May 2001
Lawyer at the Italian Bar
Expertises
Correspondent member of Sociologia del diritto;
Referee of Quaestio Iuris;
Member of the Società Italiana di Filosofia del Diritto (SIFD);
Member of the Italian Society for Law and Literature (ISLL);
Member of the Chair of Theory of Interpretation and
Argumentation, University of Napoli Federico II;
Member of the Chair of Constitutional Law, University of
Past
Expertises
Neuchâtel.
Member of the Board of the ISA-RCSL (years 2010-2012);
Member of the examining committee for the “R. Treves”
Doctoral School, University of Milano.
Awards
The 2010 Adam Podgórecki Prize
http://rcsl.iscte.pt/rcsl_apodgpr10.htm.
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CONFERENCES (2010-15)
(January 24th 2015). (In collaboration with Francesca Scamardella). Un approccio
epistemico alla conoscenza del fatto nel processo. Il modello di Michele Taruffo tra
prospettive analitiche e aperture interdisciplinari. Communication at the International
journey Un jurista pluridisciplinar: en torno al pensamiento de Michele Taruffo, Càtedra
de Cultura Jiurídica, Universitat de Girona (Selected participant).
(April 29th 2015). Le récit comme outils d’analyse juridique. Perspectives top-down and
bottom-up: le cas de l’intégration des étrangers. Communication at the Scientific Journey
Droit et littérature, CIHDDR, Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel. (Co-organizer and
invited speaker)
(Juin 4th 2015). Shaping the meanings of integration: a perspective of law in action.
Project presentation at the Workshop “Paradoxes of Migrants’ Integration in Switzerland”
Esma Baykan and Lucia Lanfranconi (organizers). Annual Conference of the Swiss Sociological
Association). University of Lausanne.
(Juin 17th 2015). Making the humanities visible: narrative, material, and images at the core
of a clinically oriented cases’ analysis. Communication at the GTR15 - TRENTO DAYS ON
RHETORIC VISUAL ARGUMENTATION & REASONABLENESS IN JUDICIAL DEBATE. University
of Trento.
(September 25th 2015). Fact-finding in contexts: framing clients' agentivity within judicial
and administrative procedures. Paper presentation at the Scientific Journey ISSUES OF
FACT: The pathologies of Fact and the Fictitious in Law and the Humanities. Erasmus School
of Law. University of Rotterdam.
(October 15-16th). Diffusione dell’insegnamento clinico in Italia e in Europa: radici teoriche e
dimensioni pratiche. Introduction to the Symposium, chair and co-organization.
(November 20th 2015). (In collaboration with Tania Zittoun & Anne Lavanchy). Trajectories
of Integration. A Case Study. Nccr Workshop Doing Interdisciplinary Research on
Integration. University of Neuchâtel. (Invited speaker)
(January 22-24th 2014). The interplay of legal, cultural and emotional arguments in solving
legal cases. Presentation at the scientific journey on Argumentation and knowledge –
Doctoral School Argupolis. Faculty of Arts, University of Neuchâtel. (Invited speaker).
(April 28th 2014). Culture as a normative process. The meaning making of the law. Voices
from the bottom. Presentation at the workshop on Law as Mode of Existence (on invitation
by prof. Bruno Latour). Sciences Po. Paris. (Invited speaker)
(June 30th 2014). Claiming integration? The impact of the Swiss administrative, legal and
judicial definitions of integration on lay people trajectories. An interdisciplinary analysis of
legal cases. An exploratory case’s analysis: the naturalization path of N.M.*. Project
Presentation at the Conférence Suisse Inter- et Transdisciplinarité – ITD14 Repenser les
méthodes de recherche ? Transformer les pratiques, inventer de nouveaux outils, SionIUKB.
(November 4th 2014). Des étrangers racontent : les impacts du système juridique suisse
sur leur trajectoire. Formation JEFA (FR) - Journée universitaire en formation d’adultes «
Voyage dans les diversités. Individus, relations et cultures en contexte de formation
d’adultes ». University of Freiburg. (Invited speaker).
(November 7th 014). Visualizing materiality in law to reconstruct cases. Communication
affichée au Workshop international “Expansion(s) of experience: symbolic and material
dimensions”. Faculty of Arts, University of Neuchâtel. (Invited speaker).
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(November 17th 2014). Visualizing legal materiality by reconstructing individuals’ stories.
Implicit meanings. Oral communication at the SYMPOSIUM “Aesthetic Force and Form In
Legal Education. Law and Humanities Network EMILE Project” (EMotions In visual Legal
Education). University of Torino. (Invited speaker).
(April 8th 2013). La soluzione di casi giudiziari tra diritto e cultura: le azioni dei protagonisti.
Invited communication at the International Workshop on L’eccezione e la regola. Aspetti
psicologici e giuridici della cultura della regolamentazione. University of Firenze.
(May 8th and 9th 2013). Le storie legali. Tracce di una cultura. Book’s presentation at the
University of Milano (Doctoral school and chair of Sociology of Law) and at the University of
Trento (chair of Sociology of Law) on invitation by prof. Vincenzo Ferrari. Milano and Trento.
(June 2th 2013). Immigrant’s trajectories of life between indeterminate legislative criteria
and uncertain life-course. Analysis of legal cases. Project’s presentation at the 2013 Law
and Society Annual Meeting (session “Access to Justice and Socio-Legal Integration of
Immigrants”). Boston.
(July 21th-27th 2013). Searching for the legal truth between theory of argumentation and
contextual-cultural frameworks (in collaboration with G. Conza and F. Scamardella). Paper’s
presentation at the XXVI World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
(IVR), (ABRAFI), Session “Truth and Objectivity: in Law and Morals”, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
(September 3-6th 2013). Immigrant’s trajectories of life between indeterminate legislative
criteria and uncertain life-course in Switzerland. The exploratory case of N.M.*. Project
presentation at the 2013 Congrès Mondial ISA/RCSL Sociologie du Droit at Action Politique.
University of Toulouse.
(September 28th 2013). Narratives in contexts. Comparing Cases from South of Italy and
Northwest Switzerland in a Socio-clinical Law Approach. Paper discussion at the 2013 Clinical
Law Writers’ Workshop New York University School of Law, New York. (Selected invited).
(May 31th 2012) La ricerca della verità tra diritto e cultura. Note a margine di casi giudiziari
(in collaboration with Francesca Scamardella). Communication
at
the
IV
Annual
Convention of the Italian Society for Law and Literature on Il contributo di Law and
Humanities nella formazione del giurista. University of Sannio, Benevento.
(June 5th-8th 2012). Accessing the Law trough the Humanities. Degree of Agentivity When
Actors are Natives or Immigrants. Paper presentation at the 2012 International Conference
on Law and Society, Honolulu - Hawaii.
(October 5th 2012). Il ragionamento giuridico: la logica
della scoperta giuridica.
Communication at the round table at the Faculty of Law, University of Napoli “Federico II”.
(Invited speaker).
(October 14th 2012). Legal profession between classical and contemporary theory of trial
(in collaboration with Francesca Scamardella). Communication at the RCSL Jubilee
Conference University of Warsaw.
(March 19th 2012) Narrazioni di storie e costruzione di fatti tra diritto, cultura e
letteratura. Presentation at the Department of Legal Culture (DIGITA) “Giovanni Tarello”,
Faculty of Law, University of Genova, on invitation by prof. Paolo Comanducci. Genua.
(Invited speaker).
(May 22th 2012). Costruzionismo e diritto. La costruzione del fatto nel giudizio civile.
Workshop at the Chair of Sociology of Law and Doctoral School on Juridical Sciences,
on invitation by prof. Vincenzo Ferrari Faculty of Law, University of Milano.
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(February 19th 2010). Argomentazione e costituzione: per un modello interpretativo
che parta dal basso. Communication at the scientific journey Nuove forme
dell’autorità nelle democrazie deliberative. Il ruolo dell’argomentazione. Giornata di
studio con Manuel Atienza, held by the University of Napoli “Federico II”, Faculty of Law.
(Invited speaker).
(June 3th 2010). Dalla letteratura al diritto e dal diritto alla letteratura: il caso di S*.
Una proposta di analisi narrativa. Communication at the Second Annual Convention of
the Italian Society for Law and Literature, held by the University of Bologna.
(June 30th 2010). (In collaboration with Francesca. Scamardella). Il silenzio
dell’Assistito. Paper presentation at the Scientific Journey Il silenzio significativo tra
diritto e letteratura. University of Sannio, Benevento.
(December 18th2010). Diritto, cultura, letteratura. Seminar at the Chair of Diritto e
Letteratura, Faculty of Economy, University of Sannio, on invitation by prof. Felice
Casucci.
(March 13th 2009). La costruzione giudiziaria del fatto. Il ruolo della narrazione nel
‘processo’. Seminar at the Chair of Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, University of
Foggia, on invitation by prof. Francesco Saverio Nisio, Foggia.
(April 22th 2009). Una concezione procedurale dell’integrazione negli orizzonti della
post- modernità multi-culturale. Paper presentation at the Workshop for the launch of
the Journal Res, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Salerno, on invitation by
prof. Natale Ammaturo, Salerne.
(April 29th 2009) Narrazioni processuali: fatti e protagonisti. Seminar at the Chair of
Diritto e Letteratura, Faculty of Economy, University of Sannio, invited by prof. F.
Casucci. Benevento.
(May 27th 2009). Le narrazioni nel processo: il fatto come costruzione. Communication
at the First National Convention of the Italian Society for Law and Literature, held by
the University of Bologna, Bologne.
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(July 9th 2009). The narrative construction of legal-cultural meanings. Client- lawyer stories.
Paper presentation at the Joint meeting Complexity, Conflicts, Justice. 20 years of Sociology
of Law, held by the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (session on
Comparative Studies of Legal Consciousness - chaired by S. Silbey and M. Hertogh), Oñati.
(October 30th 2009). The judicial facts between reality and narration. Communcation at the
International Conference on Right, True, Reasonable. The Perception of Justice in the Global
Era, held by the “II University” of Napoli. Naples.
(December 16th 2009). Profili di costruzione narrativa nel processo: approcci teorici e
metodologici, (in collaboration with Maria Paola Mittica), chair of Diritto e Letteratura,
Faculty of Economy, University of Sannio, on invitation by prof. F. Casucci, Benevento.
(January 23th 2008). La costruzione della decisione giudiziaria sul fatto: un modello
interdisciplinare di analisi. Communication at the International Workshop on Decision
Making. An interdisciplinary approach, Faculty of Education Sciences and Faculty of
Economy, University of Salerne.
(May 22th 2008). La construction judiciaire du fait dans le procès. Un modèle d'analyse
interdisciplinaire. Doctoral thesis presentation at the Institut de Psychologie et Education,
University of Neuchâtel, on invitation by prof. A.-N. Perret Clermont, Neuchâtel.
(July 9th-10th 2008). Client-lawyer cooperation in the construction of the case. Presentation
at the RCSL-ISA Congress on Law and Justice in the Risk Society, University of Milan.
(May 5th 2004) La construction judiciaire du fait juridique. Doctoral project’s presentation at
the Institut Suisse de Droit Comparé (ISDC), on invitation of prof. Bertil Cottier, Lausanne.