ABOUT ME


I am Assistant Professor in Law at Coventry University and Sessional Lecturer in Conflict, Crime and Justice and Law and Professional Ethics for Science and Technology 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.
TERRORISM

​I have been studying the measures adopted by States and international organisations to prevent it - such as the UN Security Council and the EU sanctions. I have developed a global theoretical framework and a critique of such measures in my book on The Measures of Prevention of International Terrorism and Criminal Trafficking (2012).

My thesis is that such measures are often violating human rights and however they are destined to failure, since they are still depending on the sovereignty of Nation States, while the causes and effects of terrorism are global.
​CORRUPTION

I am currently studying the systematisation corruption in different countries of the world, the transnationalisation of corruption and the ways to prevent it.

My thesis is that the law itself can be one of the primary causes of systemic corruption. We need to rethink the law to eradicate corruption from our institutions.

In order to turn my thinking into practice I have co-founded at Kingston University the Integrity Research Group, of which I am now the Director (see below).
SCIENCE AND THE LAW

It is impossible to address the global developments of crime and the law without a proper and secular knowledge of science and technology.

I am particularly interested in the relationships between genetics, robotics, therapeutic treatments and criminal justice. I teach such issues in my course Conflict Crime and Justice at Imperial College.

I am currently developing a more ambitious study on the relationships between science and the establishment of a global system of law.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

The Corruption of the Law: The Effects of Lawmaking on Systemic Corruption (Routledge, forthcoming 2020)

with Nicholas Ryder (eds) Corruption in the Global Era: Causes, Sources and Forms of Manifestation (Routledge, forthcoming 2019)

with Nicholas Ryder (eds) Corruption, Integrity and the Law: Global and Regulatory Challenges (Routledge, forthcoming 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)
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ARTICLES
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'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

‘Technology, Global Crime and the Living and Common Law. Reflections from the UK’, in Roberto Flor (ed) The fight against Terrorism and Hate Speech in European and International Perspective (University of Verona, forthcoming 2019)

Genetics, Robotics and Crime Prevention in Debora Provolo, Silvio Riondato and Feridun Yenisey (eds), Genetics, Robotics, Law, Punishment (Padova University Press 2014)
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WORKS IN PROGRESS*

‘Corruptio Juris​. The Unintended Corrupting Effects of the Law’ (article)

‘Towards a Global Legal System of Criminal Justice. An Interdisciplinary Manifesto’ (article)

‘The Scientific Foundations of the Future Global System of Criminal Justice’ (article)

* All the​se 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.

AWARDS

Best Lecturer 2018, Kingston Law Society

Nominated for the Student Academic Choice Award 2018, 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)

INCOMING EVENTS

February-June 2019 - Coventry University: GIRN Seminar Series 

1-3 February 2019 - Libera, Trieste: paper presentation on corruption and organised crime at the conference ControMafieCorruzione Nord Est

1-8 September 2019 - Plenary plenary workshop on policing economic crime post BREXIT, 37th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, University of Cambridge, 2-9 September 2018

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

PHOTOS
​Sections Lorenzo Pasculli and My Research Interests: courtesy of Alessia Pasculli. All rights reserved.
Section Integrity Research Group: courtesy of Giulia Mastrocinque. All rights reserved.