Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici (17 July 1930 – 21 February 2019)[1] was a Maltese judge and philosopher, Chief Justice of Malta between 1990 and 1995.

Meantime, in 1992, he served as Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, a service he maintained until 1998.

Of a different nature is his 178-page book, co-authored with Mark A. Sammut, Il-Ligi, il-Morali u r-Raguni (Law, Morality and Reason), published in 2008 (Ius Melitæ).

It is divided in into five main parts dealing with a number of themes, from purely legal technicalities to philosophical topics.

Though the style is quite loose and colloquial – with the discussion sometimes drifting into mere side observations – philosophical arguments are proposed for a number of subjects, such as bioethics, religion, matrimony (including same-sex marriage), freedom of expression, the administration of justice, and the like.