Ignazio ALESSI

Ignazio Alessi, graduated cum laude from the Department of Law, University of Palermo, he is currently a doctoral candidate in Etudes Politiques at the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and at the Department of Law of the University of Palermo inHuman Rights: protection, evolution and limits. He is also a member of the project Documenting Multiculturalism based at the University of Oxford and the University of Palermo. His research activity is focused on medieval legal multiculturalism in the Mediterranean area.

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The research focuses on the relationship between law and multiculturalism from a historical perspective, especially in relation to the medieval period: how interactions between different ethnic, linguistic and religious groups in the medieval period contributed to the formation of the legal system...