Alberto Febbrajo

Alberto V. Febbrajo (born 19 July 1944, in Vittorio Veneto) is an Italian legal scholar and sociologist.

Febbrajo studied under the political philosopher Bruno Leoni at the University of Pavia and graduated in Law with a thesis on Max Weber’s sociology of law. He continued his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau and at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. He is Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Macerata, Italy.

Febbrajo has also been Head of the Law Department (1986-1990) and Rector (1991-2003) at the same University. He is co-director of the journal “Sociologia del diritto” and editor of the Studies in the Sociology of Law Series (Ashgate). In 2009, he established the Fermo Summer School on legal and sociological aspects of European Governance. At present Febbrajo is coordinator of the "Sociology of Law” section of the Italian Sociological Association. He is well known for introducing in Italy socio-legal authors such as Eugen Ehrlich, Theodor Geiger and Niklas Luhmann. Provided by Wikipedia