Between Ordinary and Extraordinary ― The Normativity of the Singular Case in Art and Law

In this essay Angela Condello argues that approaching normativity in art and law from the perspective of the singular case shows the importance of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Singularities create room for extra-legal values to emerge as legitimate demands, desires, needs

Angela Condello, Ph.D. (1984), is a legal philosopher. She has been teaching law and humanities and legal philosophy since 2013. Her work covers critical approaches to classical legal theoretical themes, and in particular metaphor and analogy. She has published widely on exemplarity, casuistry in law, law and literature, law and humanities. She was awarded fellowships among which the “Law as Culture” Fellowship (Bonn), Fernand Braudel (EHESS), and others to teach and work at University of California at Berkeley, Max Planck Institute for International and Public Law (Heidelberg), Australian University at Canberrra, Cardozo Law School (New York), and McGill Law School. . Her monograph "Analogica. Il doppio legame tra diritto e analogia" (Giappichelli, 2018) is forthcoming.