Angela Condello is Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy (Rtd B) in the Law Department, University of Messina. She held a Jean Monnet Module on human rights and critical legal thinking within the European legal culture (2017-2020) at the University of Torino. She published five monographs (among which Analogica. Il doppio legame tra diritto e analogia, Giappichelli 2018 and Il diritto come metodo e la scienza algoritmica. Una critica a partire da Bobbio e Scarpelli, ETS 2022) and various edited journal issues (Law and Literature, Law Text Culture, Rivista di Estetica, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law), on top of volumes – among which Sensing the Nation's Law: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy (Springer, 2018), Il denaro e i suoi inganni (Einaudi, 2018, Spanish translation 2020, Altamarea), Money, Social Ontology and Law (with J.R. Searle and M. Ferraris, 2019, Routledge 2019), Femminismo giuridico. Teorie e problemi (co-edited with A. Simone and I. Boiano, Mondadori, 2019, English translation 2022, Routledge), Post-Truth, Philosophy and Law (co-edited with T. Andina, Routledge, 2019, Turkish translation forthcoming in 2025), Law, Labour and the Humanities. Contemporary European Perspectives (co-edited with T. Toracca, Routledge, 2019), New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Pensiero umano e intelligenza artificiale. Filosofia per un tempo nuovo – by J.R. Searle – translated and edited by A. Condello, and with an essay by the editor as well as an interview with J.R. Searle was published by Castelvecchi in January 2023. Life and Words. Violence and the Descent in the Ordinary (by Veena Das) is forthcoming in spring 2024, translated by A. Condello.
She writes entries for the Research Handbook for Law and Literature, the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, the Research Handbook of Legal Semiotics, and the Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Springer, directed by M. Sellers and S.Kirste). She organized the 2017 International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law in New York, with P. Goodrich and the 2019 Roundtable in Torino with LabOnt and CirCe.
Angela sits on the editorial board of Law and Literature, Law Text Culture, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Teoria e critica della regolazione sociale (where she also coordinates the editorial team), among other international journals, as well as of book series (such as the Springer series of Law and Visual Studies). She directs, with Anne Wagner, the Springer book series Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism.
She directs Labont Law and is the scientific curator of the Rapporto sullo stato dei diritti in Italia for A Buon Diritto, a non-profit organisation with which Angela has been collaborating since 2011.
Occasionally, she writes a column on La ventisettesima ora - Corriere della sera on gender, law, and politics.