Michele Pifferi

Law degree (J. D. equivalent 110/110 cum laude, full marks) at the University of Ferrara (1999).PhD at the University of Macerata (2004), with a thesis on Criminal law doctrine in the 16 th century .From September to December 2002 visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäischeRechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main. From 2003 to 2005 research fellow at the University of Ferrara,Faculty of Law with a project on the origins of the criminal law principles of the 16 th century.From 2006 to 2010 researcher in Medieval and modern law history at the University of Ferrara, Facultyof Law, Department of Juridical Science. From October 2010 Associate Professor of Medieval and ModernLaw History at the University of Ferrara.From 2007 to 2009 scientific coordinator of an interdisciplinary research project on migration policiesand freedom to migrate.From 2011 coordinator of the research interdisciplinary group on Mafia and Organized Crime (MaCrO) atthe Law Dept. in Ferrara.Emil Noël Fellow (Fall Semester 2009) at the Jean Monnet Center for International & Regional EconomicLaw and Justice, New York University School of Law, directed by Prof. J.H.H. Weiler, with the project Individualization of Punishment and Social Defence in the Criminal Law of the Early 20 th Century .Robbins Fellow (September-October 2012) at Berkeley UC - School of Law, with a research project on Constitutional legitimacy of Preventive Criminal Justice. A historical comparative analysis .Academic Visitor at the Oxford Centre for Criminology from January to March 2014, with a researchproject on Criminology and migration policies between the late 19 th and the early 20 th centuries .Member of the Editorial Board of the series Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsgeschehen Italien (LITVerlag), directed by Thomas Vormbaum.From November 2012 scientific coordinator of a research unit working on a national project (Futuro InRicerca, 36 months) on Migration Policies and Legal Transplant in the Mediterranean Area: ControlStrategies between Colonialism and Post-Colonialism .From July 2015 to February 2017 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University ofHamburg.

doctorate at Direito from University of Macerata (2004). Has experience in History, focusing on History