Professor Gustavo Benedetti has an interesting didactic and scientific background. Born in Tivoli in 1935, he graduated in Law, and became first a secondary school teacher and then a researcher of general pedagogy at Rome University.

In 1963, with a select group of collaborators, he created the magazine Istituto Tecnico (The Technical Institute) (1963-1975) which had considerable success in Italy. This and other of the professor's initiatives contributed greatly to focusing attention on the didactic problems of this important branch of secondary schools, which he considered of no less cultural value than the schools teaching classical subjects.

He realised through studying Rousseau (who proposed the idea that man is born good but subsequently corrupted by society) that education is not only the result of instruction in schools, it is the interaction between individuals and the society in which they live that determines a sense of identity and therefore personal development.

His research was undoubtedly dedicated to this social phenomenon, and in particular to one of its lesser known aspects, that of legislative and judicial activity. In his numerous writings he investigates how these aspects relate to education and proposes setting up a pedagogy of law which should contribute, on the one hand, to the dynamic development of pedagogy in social pedagogy, and, on the other, to the substantial evolution of the judicial science itself, there being a growing need to investigate the meta-legal implications of laws, due to the increasing intervention of the State in social life.