Dr Luca Siliquini Cinelli

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Research Interests

Luca is a legal comparatist specialising in comparative contract law, comparative legal traditions, legal philosophy, continental philosophy and political theory, and Japanese socio-legal theory.

Current Research 

At present, Luca is working on several research projects, including a 'law and technology' project on the spread of AI in legal education and practice, and a comparative contract law project on the UK-Japan Free Trade Agreement (funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation).

Research Outputs / Impact

Luca is author of Scientia Iuris: Knowledge and Experience in Legal Education and Practice from the Late Roman Republic to Artificial Intelligence (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Vol. 112; Springer, 2024); co-editor of The Grand Strategy of Comparative Law: Themes, Methods, Developments (Routledge, 2024; Liber Amicorum Pier Giuseppe Monateri); co-editor of Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education and Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education (Routledge, 2023); co-author of Contract Law: Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2020); editor of Legal Positivism in a Global and Transnational Age (Law and Philosophy Library, Vol. 131; Springer, 2019); co-editor of the two comparative law volumes The Constitutional Dimension of Contract Law and More Constitutional Dimensions of Contract Law (Springer, 2017, 2019); co-author of the Italian tort law volume Danno e Risarcimento (Trattato sulla Responsabilità Civile, Vol 1; G. Giappichelli Editore, 2013); and author of two other research monographs (Europe and Its (Tragic) Statelessness Fantasy, Vandeplas, 2014; La Responsabilità Civile del Notaio, IPSOA - Kluwer, 2011, in Italian).

Luca is author of several articles published in some of the leading law journals, including the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique juridique (2024 Special Issue: Facts and Norms on the Move; invited contribution); Amicus Curiae - The Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies; the International Journal of Law in Context; the Asian Journal of Law and Society; Law and Critique; The Journal of Comparative Law (twice); Global Jurist; Pólemos - Journal of Law, Literature and Culture; the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy; The University of Queensland Law Journal; the Griffith Law Review; The South African Law Journal; the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa; the Journal of Civil Law Studies; the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law; the Chicago-Kent Journal of International & Comparative Law; the Loyola of Los Angeles Review of International & Comparative Law; and the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal. Luca's book reviews have apperead in The Cambridge Law Journal, Legal Studies, Social & Legal Studies, Comparative Legal History, The Edinburgh Law Review, Law & Literature, the Industrial Law Journal, and the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht/Journal of Japanese Law.

Luca has also co-guest edited the 2021 Special Issue of Critical Analysis of Law on 'The Philosophies of Comparative Law', as well as authored the 2020 UK Report for the Special Issue of the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht/Journal of Japanese Law on 'The State of Japanese Legal Studies in Europe'.

Luca's work is widely cited by scholars and courts (including the Constitutional Court of South Africa). Luca has contributed to the blog of the British Association of Comparative Law, as well as to the blogs Critical Legal Thinking (Key-concept: 'Giorgio Agamben's Stasis'; Law & Critique Post: 'Welcome to a Law World Without Jurists?') and Mind the Matter. Some of his papers have been recommended by the I.CONect Blog, the Legal Theory Blog, and the Law & Humanities Blog, and have made it in several top-ten lists on SSRN.

Luca's research has been funded nationally as well as internationally by, amongst others, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, the Australian National University, the Max Planck Society, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, and the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice. He has been nominated for the Philip Leverhulme Prize twice, by Cardiff University (2023) and the University of Dundee (2020).

Luca has presented his research at various conferences, workshops, and invited seminars/talks globally. He is the Co-organiser of the 2021 Critical Legal Conference at the University of Dundee. In 2020, he co-organised the Global Norms in a Divided World - An Interdisciplinary Symposium, held at the Centre for European and Transnational Studies, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. In 2018, he chaired the 'Critical Legal Education' stream of the Critical Legal Conference. In 2016, he co-chaired the 'Law and Philosophy' stream of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy's Annual Conference.

Luca has held visiting research and teaching positions at the College of Law, Australian National University (2023); at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento (2022); at the Centre for Law and Philosophy, University of Surrey (2019); at the Graduate School of Law, Kobe University (2018; The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Regular Research Grant); at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University (2017; Visiting Fellowship - Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice); at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2016); at the Faculty of Law and EU Institute in Japan at Kyushu University (2015-16); and at the Private Law Department and Centre for Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Cape Town (2012, 2013). He will be visiting the Graduate School of Law, Aichi University, in 2024.

Selection of Funding Awards (in brief)

• 2023, £2,500; Daiwa  Foundation Small Grant; Visiting Fellowship, Graduate School of Law, Aichi University (funding body: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation)
• 2023, $AUD 4,931.05; Visiting Fellowship; College of Law, Australian National University (funding body: Australian National University)
• 2019, €1,936; Postdoctoral Fellowship; Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (funding body: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, now Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory); cancelled due to Covid-19
• 2019, £2,830; Funding for Interdisciplinary Symposium on Normative Expectations of Global Public Goods in a Divided World; Centre for European and Transnational Studies, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast (QUB), February 2020 (funding bodies: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Centre for European and Transnational Studies, QUB; with Dr Mark Hanna)
• 2017, £1,600; Regular Research Grant; Visiting Scholar Programme, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University (funding body: The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation)
• 2017, £1,500; Individual Research Grant (funding body: Liverpool Hope University)
• 2016, SEK 25,935; Visiting Fellowship; Faculty of Law, Uppsala University (funding body: The Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice)
• 2016, $AUD 4,000; Visiting Scholarship; Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (funding body: Deakin University)
• 2016, $AUD 4,000; Visiting Scholarship; Centre for Law, Ethics and Globalisation, University of Southampton (funding body: Deakin University; not taken)
• 2015-16, $AUD 1,300; Visiting Scholarship; Faculty of Law and EU Institute in Japan, Kyushu University (funding body: Deakin University)
• 2013, €5,000; Visiting Scholarship; Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town (funding body: University of Turin)
• 2012, €5,000; Visiting Scholarship; Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town (funding body: University of Turin)

Guest Lectures

2017, 'Juristic Practice as an Act of Experience', Faculty of Law, Uppsala University; Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace & Justice

Book Launches

2017, The Constitutional Dimension of Contract Law: A Comparative Perspective, Vol. I.; Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town; Guest Speaker: Professor Tjakie Naude

Teaching

Luca teaches and is co-module lead on the Contract and Torts modules.

Biography

Qualifications / Certificates

• LLB magna cum laude (University of Turin, 2009)
• PhD (University of Turin, 2014)
• PGCHE (Deakin University, 2017)
• Member of the Italian Bar (since 2013)

Visiting Appointments

• 2024, Graduate School of Law, Aichi University; Visiting Fellow
• 2023, College of Law, Australian National University; Visiting Fellow
• 2022, Faculty of Law, University of Trento; Visiting Research Scholar
• 2019, Centre for Law and Philosophy, University of Surrey; Visiting Research Scholar
• 2018, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University; Visiting Research Scholar
• 2017, Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University; Visiting Fellow
• 2016, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Visiting Research Scholar
• 2015-16, Faculty of Law and EU Institute in Japan, Kyushu University; Visiting Research Scholar
• 2013, Centre for Comparative Law in Africa, University of Cape Town; Visiting Lecturer
• 2013, Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town; Visiting PhD candidate
• 2012, Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town; Visiting PhD candidate

Supervisions

Luca's postgraduate teaching qualification includes PhD supervision. Over the years he has successfully co-supervised several PhD students in his areas of expertise, i.e.:

• Comparative contract law
• Comparative legal traditions
• Continental philosophy and political theory
• Japanese socio-legal theory

Luca welcomes proposals for PhD supervision in any of the above areas.