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)