Claudio Corradetti

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name, First name: Corradetti Claudio

Orcid:000-0002-4770-8140

Researcher Id:C-8555-2017

Date of birth: 20/04/’72

Nationality: Italian

URL for web site: http://lettere.uniroma2.it/it/associati/corradetti-claudio

EDUCATION

Philosophy

2016 Habilitation as Full Professor in Political Philosophy – Italian Ministry of University and Research

2007 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Theory, Faculty of Political Science, LUISS Guido Carli, Roma, Italy

2001 Intercollegiate Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA Phil.), University of London, London, UK.

1997-8 Laurea in Filosofia (Ba+Ma, cum laude), University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy (maxima cum laude).

Law

2016 Diploma - The Hague Academy of International Law – The Hague 11-29, admitted to the Directed Studies advanced seminars and to sit the Diploma Exam.

2013-2016 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at PluriCourts, Center of Excellence, Department of International Law, University of Oslo.

2003 Post-Graduate Diploma in European Public Law, University of Athens - European Group of Public Law, Athens.

CURRENT POSITION

2016- Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Litterature and Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. (Habilitated to the Rank of Full Professor in Pol.Phil., 2017-23).

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2013–2016 Lecturer at the Norwegian Center of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

2012-2013 Lecturer (Lektor) at Karl Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria.

2008-2012 Senior researcher at the European Academy, Institute for Minority Rights, Bolzano/Bozen, IT.

2002-2003 Researcher at the European Centre of Public Law, National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

BOOKS

(contracted) – C.Corradetti (2025), Kant and Progress, Cambridge University Press (Elements), Cambridge, UK.

(contracted)- C.Corradetti (2024), Machiavelli and Republicanism: Life, Death and Rebirth of the State, Routledge New York-London.

(in press) - C.Corradetti (2024), State, Psyche and Society. The Early Frankfurt School Facing Fascism, Firenze University Press, Firenze (in Italian: Stato, Psiche e Società. La prima Scuola di Francoforte difronte al Fascismo).

C.Corradetti (2021), Relativism and Human Rights. A Theory of Pluralist Universalism (2nd ed. Revised), Springer, Dordrecht.

Corradetti, Claudio (2020), Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law. The World (State) Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London-New York. (Special mentioning as one of the most interesting books in international law of 2020 by the International Law Reporter).

EDITED BOOKS

Corradetti Claudio, Sartor Giovanni (eds.), Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy (?), EUI Working Papers, Law 2016/21, pp.137.

Corradetti, Claudio, Nir Eisikovitz, J.Rotondi (eds.), Theorizing Transitional Justice, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot UK, 2015.

Corradetti, Claudio(ed.) 2012. Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights. Some Contemporary Views, Springer, Dordrecht.

Corradetti Claudio (ed. and trans.) 2014 J.Bohman, Public Deliberation. Pluralism, Complexity and Democracy, MIT Press, Boston, 1996/ Deliberazione Pubblica. Pluralismo, Complessità e Democrazia, Il Manifesto Libri, Roma.

ARTICLES (Peer-Reviewed)

 C. Corradetti, “Coercion or Privatization? Crisis and Planned Economies in the Debates of the Early Frankfurt School”, Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics, 26 Oct. 2023 (Open Access), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42439-023-00081-0.

C. Corradetti (2023), “Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law. A Reply to G. Geismann” accettato in Con-Textos Kantianos. International Journal of Philosophy, online journal, ISSN: 2386-7655, https://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista.

C. Corradetti (2023), “Kant e la fondazione dell’ordine cosmopolitico. Risposta ai miei critici” (Symposium on C. Corradetti, Kant Global Politics and International Law, Routledge, 2020, con interventi di M. Mori e N. Sanchez-Madrid), Studi Kantiani, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa.

C. Corradetti, “Justification and Application of Human Rights. Author’s Reply to Critics”, Etica & Politica /Ethics & Politics, XXIV, 2022, 3, pp.465-479.

C.Corradetti (2022), “Locke’s Theory of Property and the Limits of State’s Fiduciary Powers. A Critical Appraisal on the Second Treatise on Government”, Etica & Politica / Ethics and Politics, XXIV, 1, 2022, pp.287-306. (free access at: http://www2.units.it/etica/2022_1/CORRADETTI.pdf).

C.Corradetti, “The Solitude of Machiavelli’s Prince”, Philosophia. Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Springer, 2022.

C. Corradetti & O. Pollicino, “The “War” Against Covid-19: State of Exception, State of Siege, or Constitutional Emergency Powers?: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective”, German Law Journal, 22(6), 2021, pp.1060-1071. Open-access, available at: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2021.48

C. Corradetti and A. Wood, ‘Kant or not Kant? Arguing on Kant’s Ultimate Political Design for Global Governance and Cosmopolitanism’, in Con-TextosKantianos. International Journal of Philosophy, online journal, n.13, June 2021, ISSN: 2386-7655, https://www.con-textoskantianos.net/index.php/revista.

C.Corradetti, Morality and Tribalism. Debating Buchanan’s ‘Our Moral Fate’,Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics, 1(3), 2021.

C.Corradetti, Hegemony Critique and the Crisis of the European Union, Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics, Springer, 2, 2020.

Corradetti, Claudio (invited) (2020), “A Rationale for the Legitimacy of the World Order: Kant’s Idea of a Cosmopolitan Will”, Contribution to the Book Symposium on A.Stone Sweet and C.Ryan, A Cosmopolitan Legal Order. Kant, Constitutional Justice and the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018, Global Constitutionalism, 9(3), 2020, 523-530.

Corradetti, Claudio, (invited) (2017), Relativism of Human Rights and Regional Protection, Oxford University Press, www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Corradetti, Claudio (2017), “Constructivism in Cosmopolitan Law: Kant’s Right to Visit”, in Global Constitutionalism 6(3), 412-441.

Corradetti, Claudio (2015). “The Priority of Conflict Deterrence and Role of the International Criminal Court in Kenya’s Post-Electoral Violence 2007-8 and 2013”, in Review of Human Rights, Springer, pp.22

BOOK CHAPTERS (Selected)

C. Corradetti (2023), “Is Humanity (Morally) Progressing? Kant’s Philosophy of History Under a Cosmopolitan Perspective”, in N. Sanchez-Madrid and A. Taraborrelli (eds.), Kant’s Cosmopolitan Normativity: Borders, Migration, Justice, Brill, Leiden, 2023.

Corradetti, Claudio, ‘Engaging with Forst’s ‘Right to Justification’: Kantian Analogies and the Problem of Subjectivity’, in E.Herlin-Karnell e M.Klatt (eds.), Constitutionalism Justified. Rainer Forst in Discourse, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020.

Corradetti, Claudio, (2015) “Transitional Times, Reflective Judgment and the Hōs Mē Condition”, in Theorizing Transitional Justice. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot UK pp.23.

FELLOWSHIPS and PRIZES

Visiting Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, Philosophy Department, Aug.-Oct. 2023

Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University – Philosophy Faculty – 2019-20

Prize from the Ministry of University as top 3% Associate Professors in Political Philosophy 2017 (national ranking): Financing Basic Research (3000 euros).

Visiting Professor Fellowship (invited) at The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Faculty of Law, Boston College, Boston, Mass., 5-26 April 2018.

Visiting Research Fellow at the Wissenchaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) – Rule of Law Center, Berlin, 15 Jan-Dec. 2015.

Visiting Research Professor at the Faculty of Law and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2010.

Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Law, European University Institute, Florence, 2008.

Winner of a Literature Prize for an Essay on I.Calvino, High School Competition in Honour of the National Liberation Day XXV April, Province of Ascoli Piceno, 1991.

Winner of the American National Latin Competition Awarded from the American Classical Association (Ceremony at the Central High School, Salina, 1990).

PROJECTS AWARDED (Selected)

Partner di Horizon 2022 - HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-09 – Acronym HR Just - States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification: a study in civil society engagement and human rights through the lens of gender and intersectionality (52.000 euro/3 years).

Conferences, Workshops, Seminars Grant at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 2018 (4700 euros)

Primary Investigator: “Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy” workshop project granted by the Democracy Fund (Oslo) at the European University Institute, Florence, 2015. Co-Primary Investigator (with A.Føllesdal): “The European Court of Human Rights: promoter and predator of domestic democracy? Principles and Patterns of Reasoning” workshop project granted by the Democracy Fund (Oslo) at KoҫUniversity Law School, Istanbul, 2015 (50.000 NOK).

Primary Investigator: “Transitional Cosmopolitanism through Courts” granted by NORDEM, Oslo (27.000 NOK).

Co-Primary Investigator at McGill University. Project awarded on competitive bases by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Catalyst Grant: Ethics 2011-03-01), 2011 (25.000 $).

Research Consultant in the project “Tomorrow’s Europe, the first EU-wide, Deliberative Poll”, research leader prof. J.Fishkin, Stanford University, 2008.

CONFERENCE INVITATIONS (Selection)

Current Research Presentation at Trinity College, University of Oxford, 12-14 April, 2024

Invited speaker “Machiavelli as a Philosopher of History. On Polybius’s Theory of Anacyclosis and Mixed Governments”, delivered at Indiana University, Faculty of Political Sciences, “Tocqueville Speaker Series”, 8 Sept. 2023.

Book launch Relativism and Human Rights (2nd edition), Springer, at the Peace and Research Institute Organization (PRIO), Oslo 14.6,’23.

Invited speaker at the Philosophy Colloquium, University of Bonn, Germany. Paper presented “Kant and (Moral) Progress”, Bonn, 12.6.’23.

Presentation of “Crisis and Planned Economy: the Frankfurt School and the Transformation of the State (1930s-1940s)”, 2nd Nomos Annual Conference «After Neoliberalism? Constitution, Democracy and Capitalism», University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 12, may, 2023.

Presentation of “Frankfurt School: Fascism and Society” at the Doctoral School in Philosophy, Faculty of Literary Studies, Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 22, feb.2023.

Speaker at the International Conference ‘Kant’s Cosmopolitan Normativity: Borders, Migration and Justice’, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, paper delivered ‘Is Humanity Morally Progressing? Kant’s Philosophy of History Under a Cosmopolitan Perspective’, Madrid, 24-26 oct., 2022.

Speaker at the Conference ‘Machiavelli and Rome’, paper delivered “Machiavelli and the Roman Republics: rethinking historical cycles”, Palazzo Valentini, Rome, 14 Oct., 2022.

Speaker at the Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Philosophy of Law, “Il lato oscuro del diritto (the dark side of law)”, Palermo 22-24 September 2022. Paper Presented “Pollock’s Theory of State’s Capitalism and his critics”.

WORKSHOP, SEMINAR, CONFERENCE CONVENOR (Selection)

Keynote speaker at the Re:constitution (Forum Transregionalen Studien), Covid-19: Broadening the Lens. Paper delivered: “The “War” Against Covid-19: State of Exception, State of Siege, or Constitutional Emergency Powers? The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective”, Villa Mondragone, Rome, 30 Sep.-1 Oct., 2021.

Speaker at the Kant Multilateral Colloquium, paper delivered “IsHumanityMorallyProgressing?Kant’sPhilosophyofHistoryunderaCosmopolitanPerspective”, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 22-24 Sep., 2021.

Speaker at The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism, paper delivered “The Solitude of Machiavelli’s Prince”, Venice International University, San Servolo Island, June 11-13, 2021.

Invited speaker, “Political & Metaphysical. The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason”-  Webinar Seminar School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK, 21 Oct., 2020.

Invited speaker at the Political Theory Symposium, Poli sci co-sponsor with German Studies and International Studies “Kant’s Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law”, University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA, 21 Feb., 2020.

Invited presentation at the Colloquium for Graduate Students and Visiting Scholars at Columbia University/Bard College (F.Neuhouser organizer), “Solving Kant’s Theory/Practice Divide for Global Politics” Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 10 Feb.2020.

Invited speaker at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität Münich University for a 3-day Seminar sponsored by the Erasmus + Programme: Kant’s Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law: Three Lectures (Lect. 1: Kant and the Legacy of Modernity: Peace, War, Colonialism; Lect.2: The World State Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason; Lect.3: Juridical Constructivism: the Right to Visit and the Cosmopolitan Constitution), 20-22 January, 2020.

Speaker at the 13th International Kant Congress, “The Court of Reason”, Oslo 5-9 August, 2019, paper presented, “The World (State) Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason”.

Invited speaker at the Conference “Republics and Republicanism”. Paper presented “Republicanism as a Global Project. A Kantian Perspective”, Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, 3-5 May, 2019.

Invitation to present “Hegemony Critique and the Crisis of the European Union”, at the Humboldt University, Faculty of Law, Berlin, 25 April, 2019.

Invited speaker, “The crisis of financialized capitalism and its impact of the crisis of the EU” (in Italian), paper presented at Conference L’Europa e la sua crisi. Rischi e opportunità, University of Macerata, Faculty of Law and Economics, 22 March, 2019.

Invited to present “Neoliberal Capitalism and the EU: Legitimation Crisis or Hegemonic Colonization?” at the Research Seminar, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University, NL, 31 Jan. 2019.

Convenor, Workshop ‘Understanding the EU Crisis. Legal, Political and Philosophical Interpretations’, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Villa Mondragone, 18 May, 2019.

Convenor, Capitalismo finanziario, sovranità e democrazia: decostituzionalizzare l’Unione europea? (Financial capitalism, sovereignty and democracy: deconstitutionalizing the European Union?), panel organised for ICON-S, Italian Chapter Inaugural Conference, Unità e frammentazione dentro e oltre lo Stato, Roma, 23-24 November, 2018.

Co-directing (with prof./dir. Andreas Gottsmann), (bimonthly) Seminar of Philosophy and Critical Theory ‘Tracks towards modernity (Spüren zur Modernität)’, Austrian Historical Institute, Rome. 2018.

Convenor (with Maks del Mar), Hegemony in the International Order (event sponsored by the European Society of International Law, the Italian Society of Political Philosophy and the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’), Rome 11-12 June, 2018.

Convenor (with V.Perju) of the workshop on “The Legitimacy of Transnational Orders: Discussing the Legitimacy of the World State” at Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, 12-13 April, 2018.

Convenor (with E.Yahyaoui) of the pre-conference workshop ‘Democracy and Participation versus Global Public Goods and Commons’ - IG on International Legal Theory and Philosophy - ESIL Annual Conference 6 September, 2017, Naples.

Convenor (with G.Sartor) of the workshop ‘Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy’ at the European University Institute, Florence, 14-15 January, 2016.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Founder and Co-Director (with M.Kumm, NYU) of the International Journal “Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics - https://www.springer.com/law/international/journal/42439