Role
Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Milan.
Bio
Francesca Poggi graduated with honors in Law from the University of Genoa in 1999. She qualified as a lawyer in 2002 and received a PhD in Analytic Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the University of Milan in 2003. She has been an associate professor at the Cesare Beccaria Department since 2012 and a full professor since 2020.
She is an internationally recognized expert in legal interpretation and the relationship between legal language and ordinary understanding, a field in which she applies pragmatic tools to the analysis of legal argumentation. She serves as a reviewer for international journals such as Law and Philosophy, the Oxford Journal for Legal Studies, and the International Journal for Semiotics of Law, and coordinates the Italian unit of the project "A language-based theory of legal interpretation," funded by Harmonia, the Polish National Centre for Science. In 2020, she was a member of the international jury of The European Award for Legal Theory.
Since 2012, she has also been working on bio-legal issues, with a particular focus on Italian legislation and case law in the biomedical field. Since 2014, she has taught the Law and Bioethics course at the University of Genoa. More recently, she has focused her research on gender legal studies, focusing in particular on gender equality and gender-based violence.