Annamaria Monti

I am Professor of Legal History at Bocconi University. I authored four books and several essays and articles on the history of justice, the history of legal thought, the history of codification, the history of commercial law.
Research interests
My research interests include comparative legal history, intellectual history and the circulations of knowledge.
Selected Publications
Besoins humains fondamentaux, éthique et droit des affaires : brèves remarques du point de vue historique
Ethique globale, bonne gouvernance et droit international économique, 2017Form, size, “governance”: remarks on Italian late nineteenth-century companies
The company in law and practice: did size matter? (middle ages-nineteenth century), 2017Réformer l’arbitraire judiciaire: un débat complexe à la croisée des savoirs
Le moment Beccaria : naissance du droit pénal moderne (1764-1810). Voltaire Foundation, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018Popular legal manuals as sources and mechanisms of acquiring legal literacy
Legal literacy in premodern european societies, 2019The Italian destiny of the French Code de commerce
Modernisation, national identity and legal instrumentalism. Vol. I: Private law, 2020Under the legal authority of the Senate of Milan (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries)
Authorities in Early Modern Law Courts, 2021Leone Levi (1821-1888) and the history of comparative commercial law
Common law, civil law, and colonial law essays in comparative legal history from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, 2021Profil de l’édition juridique italienne aux XIXe-XXe siècles
Histoire de l'édition juridique (XVe-XXIe siècle) : un état des lieux, 2021Teaching