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Professore Ordinario

Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare per la Sostenibilità e il Clima

Alberto di Martino

Bio

Academic Position

Full Professor of Criminal Law 

 

Education

  • Postdoctoral fellowship at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (1996-1998)

  • PhD in Law (summa cum laude) (1996) 

  • Visiting graduate student at the (formerly) «Max-Plank-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht» in Freiburg im Breisgau, and at the Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften of the “J.W. Goethe-Universität” of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) (1993)

  • “Laurea” summa cum laude in Law at the University of Pisa (1991)

     

    Visiting experiences

  • Visiting Professor in the framework of the «Maria Magdalene Schoch-Fellowship Program» at the University of Hamburg (2015)

  • Visiting Erasmus Professor at the University of Jena (2017)

  • Invited professor (letter of appointment 2012-2015) at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing (China)

  • Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Gesellschaft (2005).

     

Consultancy

  • Member of following Law Commissions of the Italian Ministry of Justice:

  • Law Commission on Decriminalization and for the Reform of Criminal Sanctions System; 

  • Law Commission for the Re-ordering of Penal laws enacted outside the Criminal Code

  • Law Commission for the Reform of the penitentiary system and the execution of decisions in criminal matters, so-called “Stati Generali dell’Esecuzione penale” [Group 14: “Comparative experiences and international regulations”: https://www.giustizia.it/giustizia/it/mg_2_19_1_14.page ]).

 

 

Civic Engagement

 “Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or otherwise Deprived of Personal Liberty” for the Municipality of Pisa (pro bono, 2014-2017).

Ricerca

  • Research interests

    Theory and philosophy of criminal law and criminal justice - Internationalization and Europeanization of criminal law - Comparative criminal law - Criminal jurisdiction - Crimmigration - Hate speech laws - Criminal law, history, and memory 

     

  • Research projects (selection)

  • Co-Principal Investigator of the national research project on «“Casuistry” and rule-based approach in criminal law. Historical perspectives, current developments» (National Ministry of University and Research, 2023)

  • Principal Investigator of the HIDEANDOLA Project («Hidden Antisemitism and Communicative Skills of Criminal Lawyers and Journalists») funded by the European Commission (CERV-2021-EQUAL n. 101049699)

  • Head of the research project on Irregular Immigration, funded by «OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS – JUSTICE INITIATIVE», followed by a report on the Italian Migration Detention Centres (2011-2012)

     

Pubblicazioni

Recent publications (selected):

 

Books (authored/ edited)

  • L’era dell’interlegalità (edited with E. Chiti and G. Palombella), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021

  • The Court of Justice of the European Union and European Criminal Law (edited with V. Mitsilegas and L. Mancano), Hart, London et al., 2019

  • Sfruttamento del lavoro. Il valore del contesto nella definizione del reato, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2019

     

    Articles

  • ‘Transnational Surrogacy, Active Nationality Principle, and the Legitimacy of (Transnational) Criminal Law’, Transnational Criminal Law Review, 2025 (accepted)

  • ‘Does the European Union's rule of law require the criminalisation of EU public officials? A first appraisal’, European Law Journal 2024, 1-16

  • ‘La pagliuzza e la trave: il caso «Almasri»’, in Questione Giustizia, 25.1.2025 (with V. Bolici): https://www.questionegiustizia.it/articolo/la-pagliuzza-e-la-trave-il-caso-almasri [quoted by: ICC, Public redacted version of the “Prosecution's request for a finding of noncompliance under article 87(7) against the Republic of Italy for the release of Osama Elmasry / Almasri NJEEM”, 25 February 2024, ICC-01/11-163-US-Exp, 25.2.2025, p. 8 fn. 42]

  • ‘Supporto organizzato e supporto individuale a migranti non autorizzati. Incrocio pericoloso tra favoreggiamento della migrazione, associazione per delinquere, non punibilità “umanitaria” ’, in Diritto Immigrazione Cittadinanza, 2023

  • ‘Questioni di legittimità costituzionale sul reato di sfruttamento lavorativo: punti e contrappunti’, in L’Altro Diritto. Rivista, 2022/6, 1-30

  • ‘Illecito punitivo di enti stranieri tra giurisdizione punitiva e giurisdizione penale, territoriale ed extraterritoriale: somiglianze apparenti, realtà inosservate (a proposito della sentenza della Corte di cassazione sul “disastro di Viareggio”)’, in Cassazione penale, 2022/7-8, 2747-2763

  • ‘The Importance of Being A Case. Collapsing of the Law upon the Case in Interlegal Situations’, in Italian Law Journal, 2021 

  • ‘Oltre l’architettura ordinamentale: il nuovo diritto composito della «terza ondata»’, in Quaderni Cost., 2020/1, 205-213 (con G. Palombella)

  • ‘Contesto e individuo nel sistema di giustizia penale internazionale. Contrappunto in riflessioni sparse’, in Studi sulla questione criminale, 2020/1, 99-117

 

Book Chapters

  • ‘Le pene sostitutive’, in Trattato teorico-pratico di diritto penale (dir. da F. Palazzo e C.E. Paliero), III. Le conseguenze sanzionatorie (a cura di Ga. De Francesco), Giappichelli, Torino, II ed., 2025 (in print)

  • ‘To Be or Not to Be Comparable: A Short Comparative Endeavour About Joint Criminal Enterprise III’, in Strafrecht und Systemunrecht - Festschrift für Gerhard Werle zum 70. Geburtstag, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2022, 61-70

  • ‘Reati commessi all’estero e responsabilità degli enti’, in D. Piva (a cura di), La responsabilità degli enti ex d.lgs. 231/2001. Profili sostanziali e processuali, Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, 180-213

  • ‘Il delitto d’inosservanza della limitazione o del divieto di transito e sosta nel mare territoriale’, Pisa, Pacini, 2021, 1-17 (con L. Ricci)

  • ‘Allusion, Illusion, Delusion. The Assessment of the Berlusconi Judgment in Italy’, in A. di Martino, L. Mancano, V. Mitsilegas (eds.), The Court of Justice of the European Union and European Criminal Law (edited with V. Mitsilegas and L. Mancano), Hart, 2019, 55-65

  • ‘Interlegality and Criminal Law’, in J. Klabbers and G. Palombella (Eds.), The Challenge of Interlegality, C.U.P., Cambridge, 2019, 250-267

  • ‘Strategie comunicative di indagini penali per agevolazione della migrazione irregolare. Noterelle di sociologia della comunicazione giudiziaria’, in Diritto Immigrazione Cittadinanza, 1/2019, 1-18

 

Annotated Legal Cases

  • Commentary (ECCC, Decision on IENG Sary’s Rule 89 Preliminary Objections (Ne Bis in Idem and Amnesty and Pardon), Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, Kieu Samphan, Case No. 002/19-09-2007, T. Ch., 3 November 2011, and Supr. Court Ch., 3 November 2011), in A. Klip, G. Sluiter, Annotated Leading Cases of International Tribunals, vol. 60, Cambridge-Antwerp-Portland, 2020

  • Commentary on the Decision on the applicability of joint Criminal Enterprise, in A. Klip, G. Sluiter, Annotated Leading Cases of International Tribunals, vol. 60, Cambridge-Antwerp-Portland, 2020

     

    Book reviews

  •  ‘The Principle of Mutual Trust in EU Criminal Law, by Auke Willems (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021)’, Common Market Law Review, Volume 59, Issue 6 (2022), 1950–1953