Gabriella Silvestrini

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Gabriella Silvestrini

Associate Professor in History of Political Thought at the Department of Humanities, University of Eastern Piedmont, she is currently President of the undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Communication (University of Eastern Piedmont) and Director of the Interuniversity Centre for Peace Studies. Her main research interests are the history of early-modern republican theories, natural law tradition and XVIIIth-century international political thought.

She is member of the editorial board of two peer-reviewed journals, Filosofia politica and Storia del pensiero politico, member of the Scientific Board of the Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau and of the journal Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau; she is also member of the international board of the Journal Global Intellectual History.

She has recently published 'État', in Dictionnaire critique de l’Utopie au temps des Lumières, sous la dir. de B. Baczko, M. Porret, F. Rosset (Genève: Georg, 2016), 373-98; 'Fra diritto di guerra e potere di punire: il diritto di vita e di morte nel Contratto sociale', Rivista di Storia della filosofia, 1 (2015), 125-41; 'With Grotius against Grotius: Jephtha’s "Appeal to Heaven" in John Locke’s Two Treasises of Government', in P.-M. Dupuy & V. Chetail, eds., The Roots of International Law/Les fondements du droit international. Liber Amicorum Peter Haggenmacher (Leiden-Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), 2014, 59-94; 'Justice, War and Inequality: The Unjust Aggressor and the Enemy of Human Race in Vattel's Theory of the Law of Nations', Grotiana, 31 (2010), 44-68; Diritto naturale e volontà generale. Il contrattualismo repubblicano di Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Torino: Claudiana, 2010.

E-mail: gabriella.silvestrini (at) uniupo.it

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