Education
Febbrajo studied under the political philosopher Bruno Leoni at the University of Pavia and graduated in Law with a thesis on Max Weber’s sociology of law.
Febbrajo studied under the political philosopher Bruno Leoni at the University of Pavia and graduated in Law with a thesis on Max Weber’s sociology of law.
He continued his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau and at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. He is Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Macerata, Italy. Febbrajo has also been Head of the Law Department (1986-1990) and Rector (1991-2003) at the same University.
Heis co-director of the journal “Sociologia del diritto” and editor of the Studies in the Sociology of Law Series (Ashgate).
In 2009, he established the Fermo Summer School on legal and sociological aspects of European Governance. At present Febbrajo is coordinator of the "Sociology of Law” section of the Italian Sociological Association.
He is well known for introducing in Italy socio-legal authors such as Eugen Ehrlich, Theodor Geiger and Niklas Luhmann. East. Ehrlich, I fondamenti della sociologia del diritto (1913), Milano, Giuffrè, 1976 North. Luhmann, Sociologia del diritto (1972), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1977 North. Luhmann, Sistema giuridico e dogmatica giuridica (1974), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1978 North. Luhmann, Stato di diritto e sistema sociale (1971), Napoli, Guida, 1978 A. Ross, Critica del diritto e analisi del linguaggio, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1982 (with R Guastini) North. Luhmann, Sistemi sociali.
Fondamenti di una teoria generale (1984), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1990 (with R Schmidt) North. Luhmann, Procedimenti giuridici e legittimazione sociale (1983), Milano, Giuffrè, 1995 G. Teubner, Il diritto come sistema autopoietico (1989), Milano, Giuffrè, 1996, (with C Pennisi).