Brief Bio

Sergio Dellavalle is Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the Department of Law of the University of Torino and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Previously, he has been Marie Curie Fellow of the European Commission, Fellow of the DAAD and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He has been Scholar in residence at the W & L University, School of Law (Lexington, VA, USA), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Buchmann Faculty of Law of the University of Tel Aviv and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge. He has been Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, at the Faculty of Law of the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, at Queen’s University, School of Law (Belfast); at the University of Tübingen; at Rutgers University, School of Law (Camden, NJ), and at the University of Baltimore, School of Law (Baltimore, MD).

Recent Publications

  • Il potere dell’Unione Europea (Public Power of the European Union). In: Teoria politica VI, 193-223 (2016).
  • Crisi e ridefinizione della sovranità nel contesto plurilivellare (Crisis and Redefinition of the Concept of Sovereignty in the Multilevel Setting). In: Costituzionalismo.it 3, 125-158 (2016) (with Andrea Bosio).
  • Law as a Linguistic Instrument without Truth Content? On the Epistemology of Koskenniemi’s Understanding of Law. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 77, 199-233 (2017).
  • Responsibility and Rights. In: MPIL Research Paper Series No. 2017/14, 2017.
  • The Dialectics of Sovereignty and Property. In: Theoretical Inquiries in Law 18/2, 269-298 (2017).
  • Universalism and Particularism: A Dichotomy to Read Theories on International Order. In: System, Order, and International Law, Stefan Kadelbach, Thomas Kleinlein, David Roth-Isigkeit (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2017, 482-504 (with Armin von Bogdandy).
  • The Plurality of States and the World Order of Reason: On Hegel’s Understanding of International Law and Relations. In: System, Order, and International Law, Stefan Kadelbach, Thomas Kleinlein, David Roth-Isigkeit (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2017, 352-378.
  • Squaring the Circle: How the Right to Refuge Can Be Reconciled with the Right to Political Identity. In: International Journal of Constitutional Law No. 3, 776-805 (2018).
  • Reconciliation v. Retribution, and Co-operation v. Substitution: Hegel’s Suggestions for a Philosophy of International Criminal Law. In: Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers, Morten Bergsmo, Emilio J. Buis (eds.). Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, Brussels 2018, 487-519.

Courses taught at CTLS

  • Core Course (Fall 2019)
  • Paradigms of National and International Order (Fall 2019)