Dr. Clara Rigoni

Research Affiliate
Visiting scholar

Main Focus

  • Criminal law and cultural diversity
  • Honor-based violence and forced marriages
  • Restorative justice and alternative dispute resolution
  • Legal pluralism
  • Organized crime
  • International criminal law and transitional justice

Curriculum Vitae

Pro­fes­sion­al Ex­per­i­ence

  • August 2023 to December 2023: Teaching Fellow, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, USA (Course “Comparative Law”)
  • Since August 2022: Maître Assistante in Criminology, Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Since August 2022: Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Department of Criminal Law), Freiburg, Germany
  • January 2020 to July 2022: Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Department of Criminal Law), Freiburg, Germany
  • February 2019 to December 2019: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Department of Law & Anthropology), Halle (Saale), Germany
  • Since 2019: Regular Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Italy (Course “Criminal Law”)
  • September 2017 to September 2020: Lecturer, University of Freiburg, Germany (Courses “International Criminal Law”; Sociology of Law”; Methods of Legal Interpretation and Research”)
  • September 2015: Esame di Stato per l’esercizio della professione di Avvocato (bar exam), Court of Appeal of Venice, Italy
  • September 2013 to January 2019: Doctoral Researcher, International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP), Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Department of Criminology), Freiburg, Germany
  • April 2012 to July 2012: Visiting Researcher, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA
  • October 2011 to February 2012: Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany

Education

  • November 2020 to March 2021: Specialization Course “Scenari Internazionali della Criminalità Organizzata” (International Scenarios on Organized Crime), University of Milano Statale, Italy
  • September 2013 to January 2019: Dr. jur., University of Freiburg, Germany
  • September 2012 to September 2013: European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, European Inter-University Centre (EIUC) and Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • September 2006 to July 2011: Dott. Mag., University of Bologna, Italy

Institutional and Editorial Responsibilities

  • Editor in Chief, German Law Journal, Cambridge University Press
  • Member of the Committee for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Head of Doctoral Program, School of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Professional Memberships and Activities

  • European Society of Criminology
  • European Forum for Restorative Justice
  • Società Italiana di Criminologia
  • Osservatorio Antigone (Prison Observatory)

Project

Conflict Regulation in Germany’s Plural Society

Study of So-Called Paralleljustiz in Criminal Law in North Rhine-Westphalia more

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