MAFFEI Stefano

Senior lecturer in Criminal Procedure, expert in Human Rights, criminal justice and extradition.

Italian citizen, born on July, 2 1975 in Brescia (Italy)

EDUCATION

First Degree in Law, University of Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri (Italy), 1999
Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.), University of Oxford, 2005
Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Procedure, University of Genoa (Italy), 2004
Visiting researcher, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. (USA), 2002-2003

AWARDS

Fulbright Scholarship, Temple Law School, Philadelphia, 2011
Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary Foundation, 2002-2003
'Zanardelli Award to the best candidate in the Bar exam, District of Brescia, 2002
Griziotti Award to the best undergraduate and graduate student of the Law Faculty, University of Pavia, 1997 and 1999

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Admitted to practice law in Italy, Brescia Bar Association, since 2003, Modena Bar Association, since 2012.

Director of 'EFLIT-English for Law & International Transactions' - EFLIT started in 2006 at the University of Parma and is now active in more than 15 cities around Italy. It provides skill-based training in Legal English to graduates in law, lawyers and members of the judiciary: www.englishforlaw.it

Coordinator of project FIDUCIA-New European Crimes and Trust based policy, FP7, 2012-15 (2.7M€)
Head of the Parma Research Unit Project 'EUROJUSTIS -Social indicators of public confidence in justice' FP7, 2008-11 (1.8M€)

Visiting Professor, Univ. of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law (Sacramento) and Temple Law School (Philadelphia)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

-The Right to Confrontation in Europe (Groningen, Europa Law Publishing, 2012)
-The Cloak of the Law and Fruits Falling from the Poisonous Tree: A European Perspective on the Exclusionary Rule in the Gäfgen Case (co-author D. SONENSHEIN), in (2013) 21 Columbia J. Eur. Law 19
-Crime and Criminal Justice in Italy (co-author I. Merzagora-Betsos), in 2007 European Journal of Criminology 461-482;
-Negotiations On Evidence and Negotiations On Sentence': Adversarial Experiments in Italian Criminal Procedure, in
2004 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1050-1069;
-The European Right to Confrontation in Criminal Proceedings (Europa Law Publishing 2006);
-Il diritto al confronto con l'accusatore (2003);
-Il codice di procedura penale francese (2002).

LECTURES

Lectures, papers presented to conferences, seminars, scientific reunions on matters of constitutional law, Human Rights law in the following Countries:
Austria, Bangladesh, England, Greece, India, Spain, Hungary, Iran, Armenia, Moldova, Northern Ireland, Serbia, Turkey, U.S.A., since 2004