Prof.ssa Maria Ausilia Simonelli

Biography

Since March 1st, 2001 University Researcher at Molise University, Faculty of Law (IUS/20). TEACHING APPOINTMENTS (BY THE FACULTY OF LAW): From the academic year 2001-2002 to the academic year 2011-2012, "History of Sociological Thought" (Courses in Law and three year Bachelor in Administration Sciences degree programs). From the academic year 2005-2006 to the academic year 2009-2010, "Juridical Sociology and the Sociology of Deviance" (Course in three year Bachelor in Administration Sciences degree program). In addition, for the academic year 2005-2006, she held - as substitute professor - the teaching of "General Sociology" (Course in three year Bachelor in Administration Sciences degree program). Since the academic year 2009-2010, "Juridical Institutions and social-economic Evolution" (Interfaculty degree Course, Faculties of Law and Economics, and of Political Sciences and Government, in the city of Isernia; from the current academic year – 2012-2013 – denominated: Interdepartmental Degree Course – Juridical Department and Department of Economy, Administration, Society and Institutions - in Political Sciences and European Institutions). From the academic year 2011-2012 on, "Criminology" (Degree course in Law). From the academic year 2013-2014 on, "Legal Philosophy" (Degree course in Law). In academic year 2006-2007 she gave a series of lectures on the Sociology of Deviance and of Criminal Deviance, within the Master in Criminology degree program (Molise University). In November 2009 she was assigned teaching the course “Women, Politics and Institutions. Professional and Educational Avenues for the Promotion of the Culture of Equal Gender Opportunities” (carried out by the University of the studies of Molise, on initiative of the Prime Minister's Office - Department Equal Opportunities and Rights - and in collaboration with the Advanced School of Public Administration). Topic of these lessons: “The Family and the Law: Legal and Social Transformations from Italian Unity up to the Present Day”. Within the seminars and meetings of study organized by the Faculty of Law (Molise University), she has given her contribution on the followings occasions: “XI Week of Scientific and Technological Culture”, with a lesson on “Science and Technique as objects of Sociological-Juridical Reflection in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (Campobasso, March 31st, 2001); “Lectures on the Law and Religion”, with a paper on “Legal Philosophy and Religion” (Frosolone, February 11th, 2003); “Seminar of Studies on Institutions and Geopolitical Space in the European Constitution”, with an intervention on “The Moral and Juridical Values of European Civilization” (Campobasso, June 10th, 2003); “XIV Week of Scientific and Technological Culture”, with a lesson on “The Cultural and Sociological Aspects of Aging” (Campobasso, March 23rd, 2004).

Research Interest

Legal and Social Transformations