Prof. Dr. Michele Luminati

Foto Michele Luminati

Professor of Legal History and Legal Theory

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T +41 41 229 53 37
michele.luminati@unilu.ch
Frohburgstrasse 3, Room 4.A43

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Michele Luminati is from the Italian-speaking part of Graubünden (Poschiavo) and studied law at the University of Zurich, from where he received his PhD in 1995 with a thesis on catastrophe management in Sicily in the eighteenth century. He subsequently worked as a Senior Research Assistant in Zurich, during which time he completed his habilitation on the history of the Italian judiciary after 1945. He moved to the University of Lucerne in 2002, initially as an Associate Professor and then, from 2004, as Full Professor of Legal History, Contemporary Legal History and Legal Theory. He is founder and director of the Institute for Research in the Fundaments of Law – lucernaiuris. In 2008, he was awarded a titular professorship by the University of Zurich. From 2013 to 2016, he was director of the Swiss Institute in Rome. 

A native Italian-speaker himself, he has, since being in Lucerne, been especially committed to supporting the Italian-speaking students, and maintains a particular teaching focus in this area.