Giovanni Damele
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, IFL, FCSH-UNL
giovanni.damele@fcsh.unl.pt | Go to Website
Academic Degrees
PhD (Università degli Studi di Torino, 2006).
MA (Università degli Studi di Torino, 2000).
Research Interests
Philosophy of law; philosophy of politics; modern and contemporary history; history of political thought; law and literature; argumentation theory; rhetoric.
Current research projects
Legal argumentation: an eclectic approach (SFRH/BPD/68305/2010) – FCT-funded individual post-doctoral project.
Argumentation, Communication and Context (PTDC/FIL–FIL/10117/2009) – FCT-funded institutional project in ArgLab.
Latest Publications
Articles in Peer Review Journal
Damele, G, Pallante, F. (2013). Il rinvio pregiudiziale interpretativo: un (paradossale) ritorno del cognitivismo giuridico?, “Diritto Pubblico”, 1/13, pp. 239-268.
Macagno, F., Damele, G. (2013). The strategic effects of implicit premises. Presumptions in enthymemes, “Informal Logic”, Vol. 33 n° 3, pp. 361-389. available here: http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/viewFile/3679/3138
Damele G. (2012). “A força das coisas”: o argumento naturalista na jurisprudência constitucional, entre a impotência do legislador e a omnipotência do juiz, “Revista Brasileira de Filosofia”, vol. 239, pp. 11-34.
Damele G. (2011). Cidadãs e súbditas, solidárias e egoístas: as abelhas como metáfora na história do pensamento político, “Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política”, 1/11, pp. 159-166.
Damele G. (2011). Sulle motivazioni della recente sentenza della Corte Costituzionale italiana in materia di matrimonio omosessuale. Con un confronto con la giurisprudenza del Tribunal Constitucional portoghese, “Diritto e Questioni Pubbliche”, 1/11, pp. 631-661. available here: http://www.dirittoequestionipubbliche.org/page/2011_n11/22_studi%20-%20Damele.pdf
Book Chapters
Damele, G. (2014). Analogia Legis and Analogia Iuris: An Overview from a Rhetorical Perspective, in H. Jales Ribeiro [ed.], Systematic Approaches to Argument by Analogy, Springer, Dordrecht
Damele, G. (2013). Legal Certainty in Europe. The Legal Pluralism and the Argumentative Practices of the European Court of Justice, in G. De Angelis, P. Barcelos (eds.), The Charter of Fundamental Rights: Its Implementation and Political Meaning, Ten Years Later, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 157-172.
Damele, G. (2013). Liturgie processuali a confronto: rito accusatorio e rito inquisitorio come paradigmi spettacolari, in G. Vitiello (ed.), In nome della legge. La giustizia nel cinema italiano, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, pp. 35-48.
Damele, G. (2012). Verdade e Comunicação. Notas sobre argumentação e decisão judiciária, in Rui do Carmo (ed.), Linguagem, Argumentação e Decisão Judiciária, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, pp. 97-110.
Conference Proceedings
Damele, G., Macagno F. (2012). The dialogical force of implicit premises. Presumptions in legal enthymemes, in M. Araszkiewicz et al. (eds.), Argumentation 2012. International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law, Masaryk University, Brno, pp. 41-53. available here: http://www.ifl.pt/private/admin/ficheiros/uploads/f306f8ebc5a900663ed397b4cc818f75.pdf
Damele, G. et al. (2011). On Legal Argumentation Techniques: Towards a Systematic Approach, in M.A. Biasiotti, Sebastiano Faro (eds.), From Information to Knowledge. On Line Access to Legal Information: Methodologies, Trends and Perspectives, IOS Press, Amsterdam-Berlin-Tokio-Washington D.C.
Damele, G., (2011). Rhetoric and Persuasive Strategies in High Courts’ Decisions. Some remarks on the Portuguese Tribunal Constitucional and the Italian Corte Costituzionale, in M. Araszkiewicz et al. (eds.), Argumentation 2011. International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law, Masaryk University Press, Brno, pp. 81-93. available here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2118002
