ABOUT ME
I am the Associate Head for Research at Coventry Law School and an Associate to the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) at Coventry University.
I am also a Sessional Lecturer at Imperial College London.
I do research because I believe that knowledge and thinking are the only ways to effectively improve our lives.
I teach, because I love to learn.
My approach is global. I believe humanity should unite under global values, the first of which is diversity.
MY RESEARCH INTERESTS
GLOBAL CRIME AND GLOBAL LAW
Since my PhD, I have been studying global crime and the possible ways to contrast it.
This research led me to believe that the only effective measures are, on the one hand, resolving the deepest socio-political, economic, cultural causes of the globalisation of crime and, on the other hand, the establishment of a global system of criminal justice. In turn, this could be achieved only through a global government, as envisaged also by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, and a global legal system.
I am therefore studying how we can start developing such a global system of law. Within such a broad research theme I have developed more specific research interests, namely terrorism, corruption, and the relationships between science and the law.
Since my PhD, I have been studying global crime and the possible ways to contrast it.
This research led me to believe that the only effective measures are, on the one hand, resolving the deepest socio-political, economic, cultural causes of the globalisation of crime and, on the other hand, the establishment of a global system of criminal justice. In turn, this could be achieved only through a global government, as envisaged also by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, and a global legal system.
I am therefore studying how we can start developing such a global system of law. Within such a broad research theme I have developed more specific research interests, namely terrorism, corruption, and the relationships between science and the law.
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SCIENCE AND THE LAW
A core message of all my research is that it is impossible to address the global developments of crime and the law without adequate and secular knowledge of science and technology. Crime prevention cannot be successful without addressing the biological and social correlates of crime and without a solid dialogue between life sciences, social sciences and the justice system. To practice what I preach I have introduced innovative courses at Imperial College London to teach law and criminology to future scientists and technologists. I am also developing some research on the biosocial causes of crime. |
CORRUPTION
I am currently studying systemic and transnational corruption and the ways to prevent it. My thesis is that the law itself can be one of the primary causes of systemic corruption. My research shows that the law might inadvertently aggravates the social, cultural and psychological conditions that might trigger illegality and corruption. We need to rethink the law to eradicate corruption from our institutions. To turn my thinking into practice I have founded the Global Integrity Research Network (GIRN), of which I am the Director. |
GLOBAL CRIME AND TERROR
I have been studying the sanctions adopted by States and international organisations to prevent terrorism and other criminal trafficking. I have developed a global theory and critique of such measures in my book The Measures of Prevention of International Terrorism and Criminal Trafficking (2012). My thesis is that sanctions are a violation of human rights, but a counterproductive regression of democratic legal systems from the advances made in the last centuries with the development of the principles of criminal justice in the last centuries. Instead, more efforts should be dedicated to building a proper global system of criminal law and justice. |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
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The Corruption of the Law: The Effects of Lawmaking on Systemic Corruption (Routledge, forthcoming)
with Nicholas Ryder (eds) Corruption, Integrity and the Law: Global and Regulatory Challenges (Routledge, 2020)
with Nicholas Ryder (eds) Corruption in the Global Era: Causes, Sources and Forms of Manifestation (Routledge, 2019)
Le Misure di Prevenzione del Terrorismo e dei Traffici Criminosi Internazionali [The Measures of Prevention of International Terrorism and Criminal Trafficking] (Padova University Press 2012)
with Nicholas Ryder (eds) Corruption, Integrity and the Law: Global and Regulatory Challenges (Routledge, 2020)
with Nicholas Ryder (eds) Corruption in the Global Era: Causes, Sources and Forms of Manifestation (Routledge, 2019)
Le Misure di Prevenzione del Terrorismo e dei Traffici Criminosi Internazionali [The Measures of Prevention of International Terrorism and Criminal Trafficking] (Padova University Press 2012)
ARTICLES
'Coronavirus and fraud in the UK: from the responsibilisation of the civil society to the deresponsibilisation of the state' [2020] Coventry Law Journal
'The Global Causes of Cybercrime and State Responsibilities. Towards an Integrated Interdisciplinary Theory' (2020) Journal of Ethics and Legal Technologies
'Seeds of systemic corruption in the post-Brexit UK' (2019) Journal of Financial Crime
‘How the law itself can be a corrupting, criminal force - and what can be done about it’ (2017) The Conversation
‘Corruptio Legis. Law as a Cause of Systemic Corruption. Comparative Perspectives and Remedies for the Post-Brexit Commonwealth’ (2017) Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Law, Regulations and Public Policy
‘Harm, Offence and Offesa in the English and the Italian Criminal Law. For a Constitutionalisation of a Unitary Principle of Harm in the English Legal System, also as Criterion of Judicial Interpretation’ (2016) 2 Diritto Penale XXI Secolo
BOOK CHAPTERS
Foreign Investments, the Rule of Corrupted Law and Transnational Systemic Corruption in Uganda’s Mineral Sector in Rafael Leal-Arcas (ed) International Trade, Investment and the Rule of Law (Eliva Press, 2020)
Genetics, Robotics and Crime Prevention in Debora Provolo, Silvio Riondato and Feridun Yenisey (eds), Genetics, Robotics, Law, Punishment (Padova University Press 2014)
WORKS IN PROGRESS*
‘The Legal Route from the (De)responsibilisation of Corporations to the Systematisation of Corruption: The Case of the Australian Banking Industry’ (journal article)
‘The Disappearance of the Offender: A Comparative Study of 30 National Cyber Security Strategies’ (journal article)
with Ben Stanford, ‘When Worlds Collide: “Magnitsky” Sanctions, Executive Measures and the Intersection of Law and Politics’ (journal article)
‘Law, Responsibilisation, Human Biology and Tax Crime’ (journal article)
‘The Disappearance of the Offender: A Comparative Study of 30 National Cyber Security Strategies’ (journal article)
with Ben Stanford, ‘When Worlds Collide: “Magnitsky” Sanctions, Executive Measures and the Intersection of Law and Politics’ (journal article)
‘Law, Responsibilisation, Human Biology and Tax Crime’ (journal article)
* All these works are currently at the proposal or drafting stage. They have still to be submitted to publishers or journals. Titles are provisional and indicative.
THE GLOBAL INTEGRITY RESEARCH NETWORK (GIRN)
The Global Integrity Research Network (GIRN) is a global and multidisciplinary network of scholars and professionals dedicated to the study and the fight against corruption in the private and the public sectors.
The aim of the network is to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to take advantage of the most advanced interdisciplinary research on corruption to suggest effective legal measures and policies to promote integrity worldwide.
GIRN fosters the collaboration between its members and external stakeholders in view of the development of research projects, the publication of research outputs and the introduction of policy changes in different Countries.
The group runs an annual series of seminars on the issues related on corruption.
The aim of the network is to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to take advantage of the most advanced interdisciplinary research on corruption to suggest effective legal measures and policies to promote integrity worldwide.
GIRN fosters the collaboration between its members and external stakeholders in view of the development of research projects, the publication of research outputs and the introduction of policy changes in different Countries.
The group runs an annual series of seminars on the issues related on corruption.
AWARDS
Best Lecturer 2018, Kingston Law Society
Nominated for the Student Academic Choice Award 2018, 2019, 2020 Imperial College Union
Kingston University Faculty of Business and Law Teaching Award for New Personal Tutor for 2016/2017
Kingston University Faculty of Business and Law Teaching Award for Use of Technology for 2016/2017
2015 International prize Opera Selezionata Giovanni Falcone-Paolo Borsellino, XX edition, for the book Le Misure di Prevenzione del Terrorismo e dei Traffici Criminosi Internazionali (2012)
Nominated for the Student Academic Choice Award 2018, 2019, 2020 Imperial College Union
Kingston University Faculty of Business and Law Teaching Award for New Personal Tutor for 2016/2017
Kingston University Faculty of Business and Law Teaching Award for Use of Technology for 2016/2017
2015 International prize Opera Selezionata Giovanni Falcone-Paolo Borsellino, XX edition, for the book Le Misure di Prevenzione del Terrorismo e dei Traffici Criminosi Internazionali (2012)
MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Member of the Westminster Abbey Institute Fellows’ Programme
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Founding Director of the Global Integrity Research Network
Associate, Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity, Coventry University
Member of the Financial Crime Research Network, University of the West of England
Member of the European Society of Criminology
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
Member of the Westminster Abbey Institute Fellows’ Programme
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Founding Director of the Global Integrity Research Network
Associate, Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity, Coventry University
Member of the Financial Crime Research Network, University of the West of England
Member of the European Society of Criminology
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
PHOTOS
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Sections Lorenzo Pasculli: courtesy of Rose Gray. All rights reserved.
Section My Research Interests: courtesy of Alessia Pasculli. All rights reserved.
