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Francesco Carnelutti

1879 – 1965

Italian lawyer and jurist

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Lived 1879 – 1965 (aged 85). Francesco Carnelutti was an Italian lawyer and jurist.

Francesco Carnelutti (15 May 1879 – 8 March 1965) was an Italian jurist and lawyer.

Born in Udine, Carnelutti graduated in law at the University of Padua. Starting from 1910, he was professor of industrial law at the Bocconi University in Milan, professor of commercial law at the University of Catania, and professor of civil procedure in his alma mater, at the Bocconi University and at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Carnelutti's studies mainly focused on civil procedural law, but also had a lasting influence in the industrial and bankruptcy law. The journal he founded in 1924 together with scholar , Rivista di diritto processuale civile, together with other works by Chiovenda and Carnelutti, notably the seven volumes of Carnelutti's Lezioni di diritto processuale civile, influenced the Italian legislation, innovating various aspects of the procedural law, and also influenced the law's university teaching. Carnelutti himself collaborated to the drafting of the Italian Civil Procedure Code in 1940.

After the World War II, Carnelutti's works were increasingly characterized by a mystical vein and by references to Christian values and philosophy. During his career Carnelutti was also a prominent lawyer, protagonist of famous trials such as the Bruneri-Canella case and the trial against Rodolfo Graziani.

Works

Lezioni di diritto commerciale, 1910 Infortuni sul lavoro, 1913–1914

La prova civile, 1915 Studi di diritto civile, 1916 Studi di diritto industriale, 1916 Poteri e doveri del giudice in tema di perizia, 1916 Studi di diritto commerciale, 1917 Studi di diritto processuale, 1925–28 Del processo di cognizione, 1926 Il danno e il reato, 1926 Lezioni di diritto processuale civile, 1929 Teoria generale del reato, 1933 Teoria giuridica della circolazione, 1933 Teoria del falso, 1935 Teoria del regolamento collettivo dei rapporti di lavoro, 1936 Sistema del diritto processuale civile, 1936–38 Teoria cambiaria, 1937 Metodologia del diritto, 1939 Teoria generale del diritto, 1940 Interpretazione del Padre nostro. Il poema di Gesù, 1941 La strada, 1941 Istituzioni del nuovo processo civile italiano, 1942 Meditazioni, Tumminelli, 1942 Mio Fratello Daniele, 1943 La strada, 1943 Il problema della pena, 1945 La storia e la fiaba, 1945 Dialoghi con Francesco, 1947 Arte del diritto, 1949 America, 1950 L'editore, 1952 Discorsi intorno al diritto, 1953 Un uomo in prigione, 1953 Come nasce il diritto, ERI, 1954 Codice civile commentato (with Walter Bigiavi e Alberto Caltabiano), Cedam, 1955 Il canto del grillo, 1956 Le miserie del processo penale, 1957 Diritto e processo, 1958 Principi del processo penale, Morano, 1960 La guerre et la paix, 1962 Come nasce il Diritto, ERI, 1963 Come si fa un processo, ERI, 1964

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University of Padua
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Bocconi University, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Padua, University of Milan

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Who was Francesco Carnelutti?

Italian lawyer and jurist (1879-1965)

When was Francesco Carnelutti born?

Francesco Carnelutti was born on 15 May 1879 in Udine.

When did Francesco Carnelutti die?

Francesco Carnelutti died on 8 March 1965 in Milan.

What was Francesco Carnelutti's occupation?

Francesco Carnelutti was a lawyer and jurist.

What nationality was Francesco Carnelutti?

Francesco Carnelutti was Italian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Francesco Carnelutti

· Wikidata: Q1237450

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