Views of a Lawyer from Nowhere and Anywhere

This contribution argues that the author’s biography (Austrian-German citizen born and raised in Italy) makes him simultaneously a natural candidate and an outlier for the epistemological dual lens envisaged by this special issue. Whilst in terms of legal education the Italian legal and cultural tradition have exercised a profound influence on the author’s scholarship, not being fully part of that tradition constituted a certain freedom of critical thought and observation. At the same time, this not fully belonging anywhere also set certain professional limits that are further compounded by the structural realities of the Italian university system.