Biography

Professor of General Criminal Law, he has been visiting researcher and fellow of the Max-Plank-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg, Germany; and Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg. Alongside his academic position he has been appointed as a member of Italian delegations to the OECD Working Group of Bribery in International Business Transactions (2006-2007); furthermore, he has been member of several Commissions (GC) at the Italian Ministry of Justice: for the Reform of Criminal Sanctions System; for the Reorganization of Criminal Laws outside the Italian Penal Code; for the Reform of the Penitentiary System.

At present, he is Guarantor of the Detainee’s Rights of the Municipality of Pisa.

Research

General theory of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice; Criminal Sanctions System; Penitentiary Law; Internationalization of Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, International Criminal Law; ‘Crimmigration’; Hate Speech Laws, Criminalization-History-Memory.

Pubblicazioni

• La frontiera e il diritto penale. Natura e contesto delle norme di “diritto penale transnazionale”, Giappichelli, Turin, 2006 (The Frontier and Criminal Law. A dogmatic account on territorial and extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction)
• Tortura. Un seminario (edited with A. Prosperi), Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2017 (Torture. Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Seminar)
• Crimes Committed by Peacekeepers: Immunity v. Principles of Criminal Jurisdiction. A Brief Outline, in A. de Guttry et al. (Ed.), China’s and Italy’s Participation in Peacekeeping Operations. Existing Models, Emerging Challenges, Lexington Books, Lanham et al., 2014, 333-368
• Centri, campi, Costituzione. Aspetti d’incostituzionalità dei C.I.E., in Diritto Immigrazione Cittadinanza, 2014, 17-40
• Entry: “Dolus eventualis”, in A. Cassese (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, 2009, 302-304 (columns)
• Entry: “Recklessness”, A. Cassese (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, 2009, 479-482 (columns)
• Legalitätsprinzip “zwischen zwei Welten”. Formelles nationales v. materielles Legalitätsprinzip der EMRK in der jüngsten Rechtsprechung Italiens (methodologische Ansätze), in Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, vol. 128, 2016(1), 1-13
• «Assassini della memoria»: strategie argomentative in tema di rilevanza (penale?) del negazionismo, in Per un manifesto del Neo-Illuminismo penale, a cura di G. Cocco, Wolters Kluwer-Cedam, Padova, 2016, 191-212
• Una legalità per due? Riserva di legge, legalità CEDU e giudice-fonte, in Criminalia 2014 (pub. 2015), 91-127