Giovanni Damele (Ph.D. Università di Torino, Turin, 2006) works as a researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main fields of academic interest include philosophy of law, philosophy of politics, argumentation theory and rhetoric. He is particularly interested in legal argumentation and, more in general, in the persuasive and strategic dimension of practical argumentation. From this point of view, his interests cover all aspects connected with legal argumentation, including philosophy and history of law, political philosophy, history of political thought, law and literature, law and economics, judicial rhetoric.