Rodolfo Sacco was an Italian legal scholar, born in 1923 and died in 2022, who spent his career as a professor at the University of Turin and became one of Europe's most influential comparative lawyers. He reshaped the field with his theory of legal formants, the distinct sources such as statute, judicial doctrine and scholarly commentary that together make up a legal rule, and of cryptotypes, the implicit assumptions a legal system carries that formal analysis alone does not capture. His 1979 introduction to comparative law and legal epistemology was translated into six languages, and he served as president of the Latin Group of the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the International Association of Legal Science.
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