Curriculum

1. Riccardo da Saliceto. Un giurista bolognese del Trecento, Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, Roma 1995, ISBN 8878310379, 370 pagg.

1. Il governo dei gentiluomini. Ceti dirigenti e magistrature a Caltagirone tra medioevo ed età moderna, Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, Roma 1996, ISBN 8878310468, 370 pagg. Recens. in Rivista di Storia del Diritto Italiano 70 (1997), 415-418; Archivio Storico per la Sicilia Orientale (1996); Società e storia (1998), 428-430.
2. Il discernimento dei fanciulli. Ricerche sulla imputabilità dei minori nella cultura giuridica moderna, Giappichelli, Torino, 2000, ISBN 9788834802427, pagg. 235.
3. Contrainte par corps. L’arresto personale per debiti nell’Italia liberale, Giappichelli, Torino 2004, ISBN 9788834843628, pagg. 190.
4. Il castello e le mura di Caltagirone. Una storia giuridica e istituzionale, Messina 2008, pagg. 194.
5. Il Codice e la sciabola. La giustizia militare nella Sicilia dei Borbone tra repressione del dissenso politico ed emergenza penale (1819-1860), Bonanno, Acireale-Roma 2015, pagg. 220 ISBN 9788896950807.

1. Per la storia dei “Libri Privilegiorum” di Caltagirone, in Quaderni Catanesi di studi classici e medievali, 15 (1986), pagg. 239-244.
2. La “Civitas Calatagyroni”: un’antica raffigurazione di Caltagirone nell’opera di un “legum studens” del secolo XVI, in Quaderni Catanesi di studi classici e medievali, 16 (1986), pagg. 527-534.
3. Note sui rapporti tra l’Universitas di Caltagirone e la sua Cappella musicale, in Musica sacra in Sicilia tra Rinascimento e Barocco, Atti del convegno di studi, Caltagirone 10-12 dicembre 1985, a cura di Daniele Ficola, (Puncta 5; Palermo 1989), pagg. 87-90.
4. Il I Corso della “Scuola internazionale di diritto comune” su “ius commune” and “ius proprium” in medieval Europe (Erice, 15-22 novembre 1988), in Rivista di Storia del Diritto italiano 62 (1989), pagg. 473-488.

52) Il codice insanguinato. Lo Statuto penale militare per lo Regno delle Due Sicilie del 1819 e la repressione delle insurrezioni siciliane dell’Ottocento, in Giustizia penale e politica in Italia tra Otto e Novecento. Modelli ed esperienze tra integrazione e conflitto, (Per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno, 108), a cura di F. Colao, L. Lacchè, C. Storti, Milano, Giuffrè, 2015, pp. 273-298.

53) Il ritratto del Patriarca. Una raffigurazione di Bonaventura Secusio nella pinacoteca dei Musei Civici di Caltagirone, in Francescanesimo, fede e cultura nella diocesi di Caltagirone. Atti del Convegno di studio, Caltagirone, 16-18 dicembre 2011, a cura di D. Ciccarelli, - F. Failla, Palermo, Officina di Studi medievali, 2015, pp. 127-134.

54) Giustizia penale e politica nelle Due Sicilie: la Commissione suprema per i reati di Stato di Palermo, in Le supreme corti di giustizia nella storia giuridica del Mezzogiorno, a cura di F. Mastroberti – S. Vinci, IusRegni 1, Napoli Editoriale scientifica, 2015, pp. 21-39.

55) “Abbissau il terremoto tutto il nostro castello reale”: nuove acquisizioni sui ruderi superstiti del castello di Caltagirone, in Lenti progressive. Contributi di storia, archeologia e comunicazione culturale, Caltagirone, Puntostampe, 2015, pp. 164-177.

56) “In Sicilia per poco non è data la stessa aria in enfiteusi”: un istituto delle Leggi Civili del 1819 nella lettura dei giuristi isolani, in Historia et ius. Rivista di storia giuridica dell’età medievale e moderna, www.historiaetius.eu - 9/2016 - paper 5, pp. 1-14.

Curriculum

Curriculum
Prof. Dr. Giacomo Pace Gravina
Academic position:
Full professor of History of Medieval and Modern Law SSD IUS 19 - University of Messina, since 2008/2009
Associate Professor from 2000/2001
University Researcher from 1990
PhD in Medieval Legal History (Milan 1989)
 
Cultural Heritage assignments and activities (selection):
He has been active for decades in the management, protection and enhancement of Cultural Heritage: with elaborating opinions on draft laws; participation in UNESCO local structures; activities aimed at the establishment of the Museum of Messina University: he created the site MUNIME, that offers the digitalization of the University’s artworks and archaeological heritage; curatorship and consultancy to historical and artistic exhibitions; advisor for institutions.
Author of the University of Messina's observations on the draft Law “Rules in matter of Protection and Valorization of the Cultural Heritage and the Landscape of the Sicilian Region”
Delegate of the Rector of the University of Messina for the Artistic and Cultural Heritage and Historical Archive of the University since 2013
Participant as institutional representative in the planning of the management plan of the UNESCO Property "Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto" since 2017
Advisor for the exhibition 'Myths of Earth', Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Antonino Salinas', 2006, curated by Philippe Daverio
Speaker at a cycle of conferences on Sicilian Identity and Cultural Heritage at EXPO 2015 in Milan
Consultant for cultural activities in the Municipality of Caltagirone since 2017
Member of the Diocesan Council for the Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage of the
Caltagirone Diocese from 1998 to 2012
 
 
- Quality and scientific impact of publications:
Author of monographic works with publishers houses such as Giappichelli and curated with publishers like Il Mulino, and numerous peer-reviewed articles in national and international legal journals, including A-rank.
His studies have been reviewed in some of the major journals in the disciplinary scientific field.
 
 
- Research projects, research stays and visits (selection):
Head of the research group “Storia dell'Avvocatura in Italia“ of the Consiglio Nazionale Forense (for eastern Sicily), 2005 - 2016
Responsible for the research project Medieval Parchments of Caltagirone
1990: Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek (research fellow)
1992: München, Leopold-Wenger Institut für Rechtsgeschichte (research fellow)
2014: Madrid, Universidad Autónoma (Erasmus+ for teaching)
2017: Universidad de Jaén (Erasmus+ for teaching)
 
 
- Awards, recognitions for scientific activity, scholarships and awards for scientific activity:
Awards:
Erice International Prize for Ius Commune, 1995
International Prize 'Le Muse' (Clio), XLV ed., Florence 2010
 
Scientific Societies:
Member of the Societé d'Histoire de Droit
Member of the Italian Society of Law History
 
- Degree of success in previous Italian or international projects:
PRIN-2009, Head of Messina’s Unit in the Project "The Lost Kingdom. Criminal emergency, revolution and repression in Sicily between ordinary and extraordinary justice in the nineteenth century" (prot. 2009LKRCFE_004)
PRIN-2007, Head of Messina’s Unit in the Project "Lawyers in Eastern Sicily" (prot. 2007SENWW_002)
PRIN-2004, Member of the Research Team for the Project "Knowledge and techniques in preliminary practices. Expert reports, special procedures, procedural strategies"
PRIN-2001, Member of the Research Team for the Project "Culture of the Code, execution of sentences, security measures" (prot. 2001128228_002)
PRIN-1999, Member of the Research Team for the Project "The Ius Commune in the use of medieval schools and in the institutions of the Regnum Siciliae" (prot. 9912088557_002)
PRIN-1997, Member of the Research Team for the Project "Institutions in Medieval and Modern Italy and the Works of Practice" (prot. 9712081647_001)
 
 
- Organization of conferences and courses (selection):
He organized and directed the scientific committee at multiple national and international conferences, among the most recent:
Law in the world of sensitive signs. Intersections and artistic contamination, University of Messina 2020
The Wall. Stories of walls, between past and present, Univ. di Messina 2019
Two hundred years after the Code for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: elaboration, application and European dimension of the Bourbon codicistic model, Found. Banco di Napoli, Univ. of Bari, Univ. of Messina, Univ. of Campania, Naples 2019
University "against"? The role of the Universities in the systems in crisis. International Conference in the 470th anniversary of the Studium Messanae, Messina 2018
 
 
- National and international conferences (selection):
He participated (as speaker) to several national and international conferences. Below a selection:
Sidney, University of Technology, Faculty of Law, Garuwanga: Forming a Competent Authority to Protect Indigenous Knowledge, Models for a Competent Authority – Facilitating Self-Determination: topic Protection of intangible cultural Heritage in Sicily, 2019
Univ. di Brescia, Webinar I tavoli d’arte, cultura e diritto; topic: I volti dell’Avvocatura, 2020
Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo di Spoleto, International Congress: Oltre l’alto medioevo: etnie, vicende, culture nella Puglia normanno-sveva: topic Diritto e fonti normative nel Regnum normanno-svevo, 2019
Dip. di Studi Storici, Univ. di Milano; Cepoc - Centro di studi “Le polizie e il controllo del territorio”, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano (Bs), Conv. Internaz.: Controllo del territorio e disastri ambientali: dal buon governo alla protezione civile: topic Cesure, continuità, resilienza: il terremoto del Val di Noto del 1693, 2019
Università di Firenze, Conv.: La proprietà e le proprietà tra moderno e pos-moderno: topic Enfiteusi e codificazione, 2016
Università Roma Tre – Dip. di Giurispr., Conv. della Società Italiana di Storia del Diritto: Storia del diritto e identità disciplinari: tradizioni e prospettive: topic ‘Una cattedra nuova di materia nuova’. Storici del Diritto 1861-1914, 2015
Madrid, Univ. Autónoma, Le periferie della Codificazione, 2014
Univ. Statale di Milano, Dip. di Dir. Priv. e Storia del Diritto
Seminario: Giustizia penale & politica, giustizia politica. Forme, modelli, esperienze tra Otto e Novecento: topic Il Codice insanguinato. Lo Statuto penale militare per lo Regno delle Due Sicilie del 1819 e la repressione delle insurrezioni siciliane dell’Ottocento, 2013
Roma – Cons. Naz. Forense: topic Storie di avvocati: la storiografia sulla storia dell’avvocatura in Italia, 2013
Ragusa - Facoltà di Giurispr. di Catania e di Messina, Congress "Angelo Majorana giurista, statista, politico. Nel centenario della scomparsa": topic Angelo Majorana: per una fisiologia del Diritto costituzionale, 2010
Napoli, Univ. 'Federico II', Fac. di Giurispr., International Congress "Il 'privilegio' dei 'proprietari di nulla'. Identificazione e risposte alla povertà nella società medievale e moderna": topic Obsequium Pauperum: per una lettura istituzionale del carisma melitense, 2009
Universität Zürich, Europäische Forum Junger Rechtshistoriker: topic Un rettore padovano del Quattrocento e le sue prerogative: Henricus de Saxonia, 1999
Universität Osnabrück, International Congress "Glosse, Summe, Kommentar. Legistik und Kanonistik im europäischen Mittelalter": topic L’opera e l’insegnamento di Riccardo da Saliceto, 1996
 
 
- Member of Phd, research groups, Commissions and Committees:
PhD:
PhD Supervisor at University of Malta (since 2017)
Member of the PhD Board in Legal Sciences, University of Messina since 2015
Member of the PhD Board in History and Theory of Law of the University of Macerata from 2014 to 2017
Member of the PhD Board in History of Modern Law - Univ. of Macerata from 2007 to 2014
 
 
Editor of Journals and Editorial Committees:
Deputy Editor of the Rivista di Storia del Diritto italiano since 2017 – A-Rank
Member of the Board of Directors of the Rivista di Storia del Diritto italiano since 2009
Member of the Board of Directors of Jusonline Journal (Univ. Cattolica di Milano) since 2020 A-Rank
Member of the Promoting and Scientific Committee of the Online Journal University Heritage. Patrimonio culturale in rete
Editor of the Digital Review Iurisdictio. Storia e prospettive della Giustizia
Editor of the Iusregni Publishing Series
Member of the Executive Board of the Editorial Series Orizzonti di senso since 2016
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Editorial Series Iuris Intuitus. Studies and Materials of History of Law and Institutions
Member of the editorial board of the Rivista internazionale di Diritto comune from 1990 to 1999
 
 
Commissions:
Member of the Committee for the National Scientific Qualification 2016 SC 12-H-2
Member of the Committee for the History of Advocacy in Italy of the Consiglio Nazionale Forense from 2016 to 2020
 
- University and departmental Commissions and assignments:
Member of the Committee for Research Quality from 2013 to 2019
Member of the Board of Directors of the University Consortium of Syracuse since 2020
Member of the Board of Directors of the Megara Ibleo University Consortium since 2017
Vice President of the University Consortium of Caltagirone from 2008 to 2010
 
 
 
- Teaching activity:
Since 1995 he has been teaching in many courses, both mandatory and optional, of SSD Ius/19, History of Medieval and Modern Law, at the University of Messina: History of Italian Law I and II, History of Medieval and Modern Law, Ius Commune, History of Modern Codifications, History of Justice; and Juvenile Criminal Law (I form).
He also taught classes in History of Law at the LUISS University in Rome, and currently teachs at the Univ. LUMSA in Rome (Palermo).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Giacomo Pace Gravina
Academic position:
Full professor of History of Medieval and Modern Law SSD IUS 19 - University of Messina, since 2008/2009
PhD in Medieval Legal History
 
Cultural Heritage assignments and activities (selection):
He has been active for decades in the management, protection and enhancement of Cultural Heritage: with elaborating opinions on draft laws; participation in UNESCO local structures; activities aimed at the establishment of the Museum of Messina University: he created the site MUNIME, that offers the digitalization of the University’s artworks and archaeological heritage; curatorship and consultancy to historical and artistic exhibitions; advisor for institutions.
Author of the University of Messina’s observations on the draft Law entitled Norms in matter of protection and valorization of the cultural patrimony and the landscape of the Sicilian Region
Delegate of University of Messina’s Rector for the Artistic and Cultural Heritage and Historical Archive of the University since 2013
Participant as institutional representative in the management planning of the UNESCO property "Le Città tardo barocche del Val di Noto", since 2017
Advisor for the exhibition “Myths of Earth”. Terre Cotte di Giacomo Alessi, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Antonino Salinas', 2006, curated by Philippe Daverio
Speaker at a cycle of conferences on Sicilian identity and cultural heritage at EXPO 2015 in Milan
Consultant for cultural activities in the Municipality of Caltagirone since 2017
Member of the Diocesan Council for the Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage of the Caltagirone Diocese from 1998 to 2012
- Quality and scientific impact of publications:
Author of monographic works with publishers houses such as Giappichelli and curated with publishers like Il Mulino, and numerous peer-reviewed articles in national and international legal journals, including A-rank.
His studies have been reviewed in some of the major journals in the disciplinary scientific field.
 
 
- Research projects, research stays and visits (selection):
Head of the research group “Storia dell'Avvocatura in Italia“ of the Consiglio Nazionale Forense (for eastern Sicily), 2005 - 2016
Responsible for the research project “Medieval Parchments of Caltagirone“
1990: Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek (research fellow)
1992: München, Leopold-Wenger Institut für Rechtsgeschichte (research fellow)
2014: Madrid, Universidad Autónoma (Erasmus+ for teaching)
2017: Universidad de Jaén (Erasmus+ for teaching)
 
 
- Awards, recognitions for scientific activity, scholarships and awards for scientific activity:
Awards:
Erice International Prize for Ius Commune, 1995
'Le Muse' (Clio) International Prize, XLV ed., Florence 2010
 
 
 
Scientific Societies:
Member of the Societé d'Histoire de Droit
Member of the Italian Society of Law History (più corretto, oppure è un nome già tradotto in inglese da altri?)
 
 
- Degree of success in previous Italian or international projects:
PRIN-2009, Head of Messina’s Unit in the Project "The Lost Kingdom. Criminal emergency, revolution and repression in Sicily between ordinary and extraordinary justice in the nineteenth century" (prot. 2009LKRCFE_004)
PRIN-2007, Head of Messina’s Unit in the Project "Lawyers in Eastern Sicily" (prot. 2007SENWW_002)
PRIN-2004, Member of the Research Team for the Project "Knowledge and techniques in preliminary practices. Expert reports, special procedures, procedural strategies"
PRIN-2001, Member of the Research Team for the Project "Culture of the Code, execution of sentences, security measures" (prot.  2001128228_002)
PRIN-1999, Member of the Research Team for the Project "The Ius Commune in the use of medieval schools and in the institutions of the Regnum Siciliae" (prot. 9912088557_002)
PRIN-1997, Member of the Research Team for the Project "Institutions in Medieval and Modern Italy and the Works of Practice" (prot. 9712081647_001)
 
 
- Organization of conferences and courses (selection):
Member of the scientific committee at multiple conferences, workshops and seminars. Among the most recent:
Conf.: Law in the world of sensitive signs. Intersections and artistic contamination, University of Messina 2020
International Conf..: The Wall. Stories of walls, between past and present, Univ. di Messina 2019
International Conf.: Two hundred years after the Code for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: elaboration, application and European dimension of the Bourbon codicistic model, Found. Banco di Napoli, University of Bari, University of Messina, University of Campania, Naples 2019
International Conf.: University "against"? The role of the Universities in the systems in crisis. International Conference in the 470th anniversary of the Studium Messanae, Messina 2018
 
 
- National and international conferences (selection):
Participant, as a speaker, in numerous conferences and courses, both in Italy and abroad. Below is a selection of reports:
Sidney, University of Technology, Faculty of Law, Garuwanga: Forming a Competent Authority to Protect Indigenous Knowledge, Models for a Competent Authority – Facilitating Self-Determination: topic Protection of intangible cultural Heritage in Sicily, 2019
2020 Univ. di Brescia, Webinar I tavoli d’arte, cultura e diritto; relaz.: I volti dell’Avvocatura
Savelletri di Fasano, Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo di Spoleto, Congr. Internaz. di studio: Oltre l’alto medioevo: etnie, vicende, culture nella Puglia normanno-sveva: topic Diritto e fonti normative nel Regnum normanno-svevo, 2019
Dip. di Studi Storici, Univ. di Milano; Cepoc - Centro di studi “Le polizie e il controllo del territorio”, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano (Bs), Conv. Internaz.: Controllo del territorio e disastri ambientali: dal buon governo alla protezione civile: topic Cesure, continuità, resilienza: il terremoto del Val di Noto del 1693, 2019
Università di Firenze, Conv.: La proprietà e le proprietà tra moderno e pos-moderno: topic Enfiteusi e codificazione, 2016
Università Roma Tre – Dip. di Giurispr., Conv. della Società Italiana di Storia del Diritto: Storia del diritto e identità disciplinari: tradizioni e prospettive: topic ‘Una cattedra nuova di materia nuova’. Storici del Diritto 1861-1914, 2015
Madrid, Univ. Autónoma, Lezioni su Le periferie della Codificazione, 2014
Univ. Statale di Milano, Dip. di Dir. Priv. e Storia del Diritto
Seminario: Giustizia penale & politica, giustizia politica. Forme, modelli, esperienze tra Otto e Novecento: topic Il Codice insanguinato. Lo Statuto penale militare per lo Regno delle Due Sicilie del 1819 e la repressione delle insurrezioni siciliane dell’Ottocento, 2013
Roma – Cons. Naz. Forense: topic Storie di avvocati: la storiografia sulla storia dell’avvocatura in Italia, 2013
Ragusa - Facoltà di Giurispr. di Catania e di Messina, Conv. di Studi su Angelo Majorana giurista, statista, politico. Nel centenario della scomparsa: topic Angelo Majorana: per una fisiologia del Diritto costituzionale, 2010
Napoli, Univ. 'Federico II', Fac. di Giurispr., Conv. di Studi Il 'privilegio' dei 'proprietari di nulla'. Identificazione e risposte alla povertà nella società medievale e moderna: topic Obsequium Pauperum: per una lettura istituzionale del carisma melitense, 2009
Universität Zürich, Europäische Forum Junger Rechtshistoriker: topic Un rettore padovano del Quattrocento e le sue prerogative: Henricus de Saxonia, 1999
Universität Osnabrück, Conv. Glosse, Summe, Kommentar. Legistik und Kanonistik im
europäischen Mittelalter: topic L’opera e l’insegnamento di Riccardo da Saliceto, 1996
 
 
 
 
- Member of Phd, research groups, Commissions and Committees:
PHD:
PhD Supervisor at University of Malta (since 2017)
Member PhD Board in Legal Sciences, University of Messina since 2015
Member of the PhD Board in History and Theory of Law of the University of Macerata from 2014 to 2017
Member of the PhD Board in History of Modern Law - Univ. of Macerata from 2007 to 2014
 
 
 
 
 
Editor of Journals and Editorial Committees:
Deputy Editor of the Rivista di Storia del Diritto italiano since 2017 (Riv. di fascia A)
Member of the Rivista di Storia del Diritto italiano Directive Board since 2009
Member of Jusonline Journal directive Board (Univ. Cattolica di Milano) since 2020 (Riv. fascia A)
Member of the Promoting and Scientific Committee of the Online Journal University Heritage. Patrimonio culturale in rete
Director of the Digital Review Iurisdictio. Storia e prospettive della Giustizia
Editor of the Iusregni Publishing Series
Executive Board member of the Editorial Series Orizzonti di senso since 2016
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Editorial Series Iuris Intuitus. Studies and Materials of History of Law and Institutions
Member of the editorial board of the Rivista internazionale di Diritto comune from 1990 to 1999
 
 
Commissions:
Member of the Committee for the National Scientific Qualification 2016 SC 12-H-2
Member of the Committee for the History of the Bar in Italy of the National Forensic Council from 2016 to 2020
 
- University and departmental Commissions and assignments:
Member of the Committee for Research Quality from 2013 to 2019
Member of the Directive Board of the University Consortium of Syracuse since 2020
Member of the Directive Board of the Megara Ibleo University Consortium since 2017
Vice President of the Caltagirone University Consortium from 2008 to 2010
 
 
 
- Teaching activity:
Since 1995 he has been teaching in many courses, both mandatory and optional, of SSD Ius/19, History of Medieval and Modern Law, at the University of Messina: History of Italian Law I and II, History of Medieval and Modern Law, Ius Commune, History of Modern Codifications, History of Justice; and Juvenile Criminal Law (I form).
He also taught courses in History of Law at the LUISS University in Rome, and currently teaches at the Univ. LUMSA in Rome, Palermo.