Ciao! My name is Virginia, and I am an Italian Philosopher of Law. 

I obtained my Ph.D. in Legal Studies, summa cum laude, in November 2025 at the University of Milan (Italy), where I was also awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus. My doctoral dissertation examines social customs, their normativity, and how exploring these often-overlooked forms of social regulation leads us to the threshold of law.

I am broadly interested in the history of ideas, legal theory, philosophy of normativity and deontic logic. I am especially fascinated by how insights emerging at the intersection of these fields and social ontology can illuminate neglected aspects of social reality.

I undertook several research stays abroad. In April 2023, I was a Visiting PhD Student at the Universidad de Barcelona. From October to November 2023, I joined (as a winning candidate) the LERU Exchange Programme as a Visiting PhD Student at the University of Helsinki, also conducting research at the von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives. From May to June 2024, I was a Visiting PhD Student at the Leopold-Wenger-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte at LMU Munich. Earlier in my education path, from February to May 2021, I conducted research for my Bachelor’s thesis at Columbia University in the City of New York. 

Lastly, I was elected as representative of the PhD students of my programme. 

You can email me at: 
virginia.presi@unimi.it
virginiapresi@gmail.com

Or, you can get in touch with me also via Academia.edu and Facebook. 

My Orcid number is 0009-0007-9172-0685.