The «Alberico Gentili Lectures» (AGL) is an annual appointment, held between March and April, involving distinguished academics, judges and leaders from all over the world delivering three unprecedented lectures about law in the broadest sense.

The lectures are entitled to Alberico Gentili, a protestant dissident who, in the late Sixteenth century, escaped from Macerata and from the religious persecution he had been suffering with his family and ended up holding a chair at Oxford as one of the first European scholars in public international law. His experience as a refugee because of his religious diversity inspired this series of lectures in such a way that both guests involved in the AGL and the topics they deal with aim at emphasizing the propelling value of «being different» for the development of a career and for a human experience. This is why, between the lectures, guests make themselves available for a conversation-interview about their life and career, discussing when and why they felt «different» and how this affected their human and professional journey.

Students are strongly advised to take part in these lectures: they may join the faculty in organizing and promoting the event and, later, in editing the books that the Italian publishing house il Mulino draws every year from the lectures (for further information about the AGL, please contact professor Benedetta Barbisan, b.barbisan@unimc.it).