dr. mr. LDA Corrias

Luigi Corrias is associate professor (uhd) of Legal Philosophy.

Luigi Corrias obtained degrees in International and European Law (LL.M, 2002) and Philosophy of Law (Ma, with distinction, 2004) and a PhD in Philosophy (2010) from Tilburg University. 

Luigi Corrias works mainly in the field of the philosophy of transnational law. In particular, he is interested in philosophical issues pertaining to international criminal law, European integration and constitutional theory. He is the author of The Passivity of Law: Competence and Constitution in the European Court of Justice (Springer, 2011), for which the Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law awarded him the Prize for the Best Dissertation in Legal Philosophy in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2009-10. In his dissertation, he drew on Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein to reinterpret constitution-making.

He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities (CIRCEM), University of Ottawa, Canada (February 2006), and at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, Scotland (October – December 2015).His articles appeared in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, the European Law Journal and Ratio Juris.

He is currently engaged in an on-going research project on humanity and dehumanization in international law. For this research, he received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) in 2019-2020. 

Dr. Corrias was an associate editor of the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy. He is the secretary of the board of the Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law. 

Luigi Corrias teaches and coordinates several subjects on legal philosophy in the Bachelor and Master. He also supervises Bachelor and Master theses, and co-supervises PhD students. 

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