Luca Lupária Donati

Full Professor at Universtità degli Studi di Milano, Italy. He has a PhD from the University of Bologna. He is the author of more than one hundred and fifty scientific publications, both Italian and international, on the central issues of comparative law and criminal procedure (including: evidentiary law; artificial intelligence, miscarriage of justice, victims of crimes; fundamental rights of the accused; judicial cooperation between EU Member States). He has also published monographs on the confession of the accused, the European ne bis in idem, the use of technology in criminal investigations and the comparative criminal justice systems. He has recently been appointed, by the Italian Minister of Justice, a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Criminal Procedure. He is the coordinator of the Italian Criminal Procedure Code, published by the Giappichelli publishing house, and of collective volumes (some of them interna­tional), recently on anti-mafia legislation, scientific evidence, the protection of victims in criminal proceedings, Cybercrime, judicial error. Professor Lupária has been the coordinator of international projects financed by the European Commission, and coordinator of national units in different international projects. He is a member of the editorial board of Law, Probability and Risk journal and also of the editorial or executive committees of eminent Italian and international journals. He is Co-Director of the editorial series “Giustizia penale Europea”, “Scienze penalistiche e criminologia” and “Processo penale e politica criminale”; vice-director of “Sistema Penale” and of “Diritto penale contemporaneo-Rivista Trimestrale”. He has been a Visiting Professor at various universities in Eu­rope and America, teaching in Master’s and Doctoral courses, and lecturer at international conferences. He is Director of the Italy Innocence Project and President of the European Innocence Network.