People

The laboratory is permanently coordinated by Corrado Roversi and Luisa Lugli. The people who have collaborated with the laboratory over the years are also listed below.

Corrado Roversi

Corrado Roversi

Permanent Coordination

Luisa Lugli

Luisa Lugli

Permanent Coordination

Anna Maria Borghi

Anna Maria Borghi

Sapienza Università di Roma

Collaboration with the PRIN CLEAR project — Concept of the Rule of Law: Empirical and Analytical Research.

Collaboration with the ALMA IDEA project — Experimental Theory of Law: Embodied Cognition and the Perception of the Legal.

Co-author of the following publications:
Abstract Concepts and Expertise: The Case of Institutional Concepts (2024); Is Justice Grounded? How Expertise Shapes Conceptual Representation of Institutional Concepts (2021); Institutional Mimesis: An Experimental Study on the Grounding of Legal Concepts (2017); A Marriage Is an Artefact and Not a Walk That We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts (2013).

Leonardo Pasqui

Leonardo Pasqui

Università di Bologna

Collaboration with the ALMA IDEA project — Experimental Theory of Law: Embodied Cognition and the Perception of the Legal.

Member of the research group of the CERV Trancityons project — Transitions, Cities and Democracy.

Co-author of the publication: Institutional Mimesis: An Experimental Study on the Grounding of Legal Concepts (2017).

Francesca Neyroz

Francesca Neyroz

Università di Bologna

Member of the research group of the CERV Trancityons project — Transitions, Cities and Democracy.

Caterina Villani

Caterina Villani

Università di Bologna

Member of the research group of the ALMA IDEA project — Experimental Theory of Law: Embodied Cognition and the Perception of the Legal.

Member of the research group of the RECOGNISE project — Legal Reasoning and Cognitive Science.

Co-author of the following publications:
Abstract Concepts and Expertise: The Case of Institutional Concepts (2024); Alice in Wonderland: Experimental Jurisprudence on the Internal Point of View (2023); Is Justice Grounded? How Expertise Shapes Conceptual Representation of Institutional Concepts (2021).

Michele Ubertone

Michele Ubertone

Maastricht University

Collaboration with the ALMA IDEA project — Experimental Theory of Law: Embodied Cognition and the Perception of the Legal.

Member of the research group of the RECOGNISE project — Legal Reasoning and Cognitive Science.

Co-author of the following publications:
Abstract Concepts and Expertise: The Case of Institutional Concepts (2024); Alice in Wonderland: Experimental Jurisprudence on the Internal Point of View (2023).

Stefania D’Ascenzo

Stefania D’Ascenzo

Università Telematica Pegaso

Collaboration with the ALMA IDEA project — Experimental Theory of Law: Embodied Cognition and the Perception of the Legal.

Collaboration with the RECOGNISE project — Legal Reasoning and Cognitive Science.

Co-author of the following publications:
Abstract Concepts and Expertise: The Case of Institutional Concepts (2024); Alice in Wonderland: Experimental Jurisprudence on the Internal Point of View (2023); Is Justice Grounded? How Expertise Shapes Conceptual Representation of Institutional Concepts (2021).

Marco Brigaglia

Marco Brigaglia

Università di Palermo

Coordinator of the RECOGNISE project — Legal Reasoning and Cognitive Science.

Member of the research group of the PRIN CLEAR project — Concept of the Rule of Law: Empirical and Analytical Research.

Co-author of the publication: The Cognitive Load of an Internal Point of View over the Rule of Law (2026).

Andrej Kristan

Andrej Kristan

Università di Bologna

Member of the research group of the PRIN CLEAR project — Concept of the Rule of Law: Empirical and Analytical Research.

Co-author of the publication: The Cognitive Load of an Internal Point of View over the Rule of Law (2026).

Glenn De Muynck

Glenn De Muynck

Università di Bologna

Collaboration with the PRIN CLEAR project — Concept of the Rule of Law: Empirical and Analytical Research.

Francesco Rizzi Brignoli

Francesco Rizzi Brignoli

Università di Bologna

Collaboration with the PRIN CLEAR project — Concept of the Rule of Law: Empirical and Analytical Research.

Member of the research group of the CERV Trancityons project — Transitions, Cities and Democracy.

Luca Tummolini

Luca Tummolini

CNR Roma

Co-author of the publication: A Marriage Is an Artefact and Not a Walk That We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts (2013).

Natalia Scavuzzo

Natalia Scavuzzo

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Member of the research group of the PRIN CLEAR project — Concept of the Rule of Law: Empirical and Analytical Research.

Co-author of the publication: The Cognitive Load of an Internal Point of View over the Rule of Law (2026).

Gioacchino Garofalo

Gioacchino Garofalo

Università di Bologna

Member of the research group of the CERV Trancityons project — Transitions, Cities and Democracy.