Turin is Italy's third largest economic center after Rome and Milan. In 2004, Turin produced a GDP of 25,439 billion euros, 2.2% of the national figure. The Turin greater metropolitan area produced 44,146 billion euros, 3.8% of the Italian GDP. Turin's taxable income was 12,455 billion euros.

The Province of Turin, is Italy's second largest export market (in terms of value of exports) with a share of 5.2% of the national total.   Its industries include manufacturing and engineering; production of confectionery and chocolate; and banking and telecommunications. There has also been growth in construction, tourism and service industries.

Founded in 1826, Caffarel, the inventor of gianduja) is the oldest chocolate factory in the world. 

Other prominent companies in the area include: Fiat, Telecom Italia (originally called SIP), Seat Pagine Gialle, EIAR (now RAI), Olivetti, Lavazza, Cirio, Reale Mutua Assicurazioni, Toro Assicurazioni (now Alleanza Toro), Lancia, Italdesign Giugiaro, Ghia, Italgas, Bertone, Pininfarina, CaRP (inventor of Vermouth), Martini & Rossi, Seven, Kappa, Superga, Carlo Pignatelli.

Turin (Italian: Torino, pronounced [toˈriːno] ( listen); Piedmontese: Turin, pronounced [tyˈɾiŋ]; Latin: Augusta Taurinorum) is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 (November 2008) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million.

The city has a rich culture and history, and is known for its numerous art galleries, restaurants, churches, palaces, opera houses, piazzas, parks, gardens, theatres, libraries, museums and other venues. Turin is well known for its baroque, rococo, neo-classical, and Art Nouveau architecture. Much of the city's public squares, castles, gardens and elegant palazzi such as Palazzo Madama, were built in the 16th and 18th century, after the capital of the Duchy of Savoy (later Kingdom of Sardinia) was moved to Turin from Chambery( nowadays France) as part of the urban expansion.

Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is well known for his work in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Postmodern Legal Theory and Political Philosophy. He was deeply involved in the British Critical Legal Studies Movement from the outset and was part of the team which set up the Birkbeck School of Law.

Adieu, Derrida (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (Routledge Cavendish, 2007)
Critical Jurisprudence (with Adam Gearey) (Hart, 2005)
The End of Human Rights (Hart, 2000)
Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law. (with Lynn Nead) (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Justice Miscarried: Ethics and Aesthetics in Law (with Ronnie Warrington) (Prentice-Hall, 1995)
Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies: The Legality of the Contingent (Routledge, 1994)