Picinali, Federico

Associate Professor at LSE Law School. He graduated in law from the University of Milan. He has an LLM from Yale Law School and a PhD in law from the University of Trento.

He teaches and researches in criminal law and evidence law, with a particular interest in theoretical approaches to these subjects. He has written on the criminal standard of proof, on inferential reasoning in legal fact-finding, on statistical evidence, on testimonial injustice in criminal adjudication,on improperly obtained evidence, on criminal intention and on self-defence, among other topics.

His work appeared in several journals, including the Modern Law Review, Law & Philosophy, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy. In 2022 he published the monograph Justice In-Between. A Study on Intermediate Criminal Verdicts (OUP, Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice). He is the coordinator of the LSE Law Criminal Justice Seminar Series.