Gustavo Ghidini has an excellent grasp of both the principles and the many specific provisions underlying intellectual property law in Italy and Europe. Nevertheless, he is neither a dogmatist nor an exegete immersed within the horizon of the texts he reads. He has a powerful vision of the politics of law, regularly setting it out in his premises and grounding it in his interpretation of current principles, which he justifies. He then projects it in his examination of concepts and individual regulations, which sometimes corroborate it but in other cases refer back to it, and on yet other occasions contradict it – at which point Ghidini observes that.
