Veronica Pecile
is an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne. In her work she develops a critical and genealogical perspective on the forms of Western modern law, focusing on property. She graduated from Sciences Po – Paris and obtained her PhD in law and social sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard University and at the Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich, and a residential researcher at the Swiss Institute in Rome. She collaborates with Tidal Garden, a curatorial and research platform exploring the consequences of climate change in the Venetian lagoon. Her first book, Law, Social Movements and the Politics of the Commons: Cases from the Italian South was published by Routledge in 2025.