Giulia Lasagni

PhD and Seninor Assistant Professor in Criminal Procedure at the University of Bologna, Giulia Lasagni carries out researches in the field of criminal procedure in Italy, Europe (EU, ECHR) and in the US.

Qualified, by unanimous decision of the selecting committee, for the post of Associate Professor in Criminal Procedure (April 2021)

Legal Analysts of EU Law Live since January 2020

Member of the Directive Counsel of the Associazione Franco Bricola (January 2022-ongoing) - https://associazionefrancobricola.it/

Coach in charge of the University of Bologna in the 2022 competition of the Nuremberg Moot Court organized by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (https://www.nuremberg-moot.de/index.php?id=283 )

https://unibo.academia.edu/GiuliaLasagni

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giulia-Lasagni

Research topics:

Procedural safeguards and rights in criminal and punitive proceedings in Italy, EU, US

Banking and financial investigations in Italy, EU, and in the US

New forms of digital investigations and surveillance

Predictive justice, Algorithms and Criminal Proceedings

Cooperation models, Public-Private Partnerships: investigations on money laundering and financing of terrorism

Judicial cooperation in the criminal matter (EAW, EIO, Reg. 1805/2018)

Risks of money laundering and financing of terrorism in crowdfunding

Informants and collaborators with justice in Italy and in the US

False confession and miscarriages of justice

Law of Evidence (Forensic Evidence, Legal Reasoning)

Previous Working Experience in Italy

• From December 2020 to July 2022: Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna
  

• From December 2019 to December 2020: Post doc Researcher in criminal procedure at the University of Bologna, research project fundedn by the European Commission/DG JUST - CROSSJUSTICE (Knowledge, Advisory and Capacity Building Information Tool for Criminal Procedural Rights in Judicial Cooperation)

• Adjunct Professor in Financial and Cyber Crime at the Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici - CIELS, Bologna (Italy), A.Y. 2019/2020 - 2020/2021 (30 h, teaching in English)

• From March 2019 to November 2019: Post doc Researcher in criminal procedure at the University of Bologna, research project fundedn by the European Anti Fraud Office, within the programme Hercule III - DEVICES (Digital forensic EVIdence: towards Common European Standards in antifraud administrative and criminal investigations)

• From January 2017 to September 2018: Post doc Researcher in criminal procedure at the University of Bologna, research project funded by the European Commission - Inter Reg: CROWD-FUND-PORT - Central European Crowd-funding Support

• From December 2016: lawyer professional legal qualification.

Previous Working Experience Abroad (Academia/EU institutions)

• September 2018- February 2019: Post doc researcher in Criminal Law at the University of Luxembourg. Supervisor: Prof. S. Allegrezza. Worked in particularly to the research project funded by the Fonds Nationale de la Recherche on "The Enforcement Dimension of the European Banking Union Regulations" (EUBAR) - University of Luxembourg https://wwwfr.uni.lu/recherche/fdef/research_unit_in_law/research_areas/criminal_law/research/eubar_project

• 1.7.2016 - 12.1.2017: Legal Department of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM/SLA), at the European Central Bank. Legal assistance for the cases pending before the Administrative Board of Review (ABoR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

• 1.3.2015 – 30.4.2015: Legal Department of the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF). Legal assistance and participation to on-going legislative negotiations (including in Council of the EU working groups) in the EPPO (European Public Prosecutor Office) draft regulation and PIF (protection of financial interests) draft directive.

Scientific activities: Participation to National and International Research Projects

• 2022 – ongoing: FACILEX (Facilitating mutual recognition: Analytics and Capacity building Information LEgal eXplainable tool to strengthen cooperation in the criminal matter). Research project funded by the European Commission-DG JUST. Principal Investigator (https://site.unibo.it/facilex)

• 2022 – ongoing: ECB Legal Research Programme 2022. Winner, after a selection procedure, of the academic financing scholarship issued by the European Central Bank (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-research/programmes/legal_research/html/index.en.html ). Proposal of financing submitted together with Prof. S. Allegrezza

• 2020 - 2022: CROSSJUSTICE (Knowledge, Advisory and Capacity Building Information Tool for Criminal Procedural Rights in Judicial Cooperation). Research project funded by the European Commission-DG JUST. Proposal, coordination unit, research group (University of Bologna) https://site.unibo.it/cross-justice/en
  

• 2019 - ongoing: Public-Private Partnerships on Terrorism Financing (PartTFin) - ISFP-2017-AG-TERFIN. Research project funded by the European Commission. Invited to participate as Italian expert in supervisory matters by the leading institution (Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany)

• 2020 – ongoing: PRIN 2017 “The essential, and competitive, role of specialised courts and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in financial law as a precondition for the attainment of social desirable levels of public and private enforcement. Lessons from history in administrative and business law and the future of judicial review in European financial law in light of European and national fundamental rights”. P.I. Prof. Marco Lamandini. Member of the research group due to her specific expertise, starting from March 1, 2020

• 2018 - ongoing: COST Action CA17102 - POLSTOP - police stop and frisks. https://polstops.eu/about-us/the-action/ - Italian substitute representative

• 2019 - 2020: Research project funded by the European Commission-OLAF, Hercule III: “DEVICES (Digital forensic EVIdence: towards Common European Standards in antifraud administrative and criminal investigations)". Proposal and research unit (University of Bologna) https://site.unibo.it/devices/en
  

• 2018-2019: “Toward an Integrated Enforcement of Banking Regulation” (EUBAR -https://wwwfr.uni.lu/recherche/fdef/research_unit_in_law/research_areas/criminal_law/research/eubar_project ) Research project funded by the Fonds Nationale de la Recherche – FNR Luxembourg. Research staff member

• 2019: Research project funded by the European Commission-OLAF, Hercule III: “ADCRIM - Admissibility of OLAF Final Reports as Evidence in Criminal Proceedings", University of Luxembourg - Italian representative

• 2017 - 2018: “Central European Crowd-funding Support” – Research project funded by the European Commission. Università di Bologna, Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca in storia del diritto, filosofia e sociologia del diritto e informatica giuridica "A. Gaudenzi e G. Fassò" (CIRSFID) https://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/CROWD-FUND-PORT.html
  

• 2015: “Criminal and Administrative Investigations in the Field of VAT and Customs Duties-From National Practices to an EU Integrated System of information and Evidence Exchange”. Research project funded by the European Commission-OLAF, Hercule III: Università di Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum"

Education in Italy

• 2012: LLM Master's degree in Law, 110/110 with honours at the University of Bologna, with a dissertation on the topic of informants and collaborators with justice in the U.S. criminal system – supervisor Prof. G. Illuminati;

• 2012: Graduation at the School of Advanced Studies - "Collegio Superiore di Bologna" (http://www.collegio.unibo.it/en/institute/the-mission-of-the-institute) 

• 2016: PhD in Criminal Procedure at the University of Bologna, dissertation on the new frontiers of banking investigations (ECB - Single Supervisory Mechanism, and real-time monitoring of banking transactions) – supervisor: Prof. G. Illuminati;

Honours and Awards

Biannual Prize for the Most Outstanding Contribution to the Journal 2020–2021, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, for the paper When it is (also) algorithms and AI that decide on criminal matters: In search for an effective remedy, in European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 28, 3, 2020, pp. 280-304. Co-author: G. Contissa

Premio Jacchia, awarded by the Ordine degli Avvocati di Bologna (7 May 2018)

Visiting Experiences abroad

• 18-23 January 2022. Visiting Professor at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Lectures on: Admissibility of Digital Evidence in the EU (19 January) and Artificial Intelligence and EU Criminal Justice: Challenges and Opportunities (20 January)

• April - August 2014. Visiting researcher at Univeristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA). Research on: financial investigations and white collar crimes - Supervisor Prof. Richard E. Myers II;

• August 2010- January 2011. Visiting student at University of California, Irvine (USA). Studying on: Miscarriages of Justice; Pychology and Law; Drugs and Social Control; Crime and Public Policy.

Conferences and seminars

• Tübingen, 30 September 2022, Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung, 39. Tagung für Rechtsverglaeichung „Digitalisierung“. Speech: The impact of digital technology in Italian criminal proceedings

• Bologna, 16-17 September 2022, ICON-S Italy, Conference: Il futuro dello Stato. Panel 17 (16/09): Tecnologie del controllo, sorveglianza e diritti fondamentali. Speech: Tecnologie del controllo e sorveglianza: quale possibile uso a fini difensivi? Panel 114 (17/09): Giudizio penale, automazione e prevedibilità. Speech: Diritto al rimedio effettivo e decisione automatizzata

• Wroclaw, 5 July 2022, ICON-S International Annual Conference: Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law. Panel: Digital Searches. In Quest for a New European Standard. Speech: Digital Searches in Italy

• European Central Bank, Frankfurt Am Main, 21 June 2022. Invited to present and discuss the draft working paper entitled The Enforcement of ECB Sanctions in light of the Proportionality Principle: Is There a Need for a Guide to Define a Solid Legal Framework?, prepared as part of the financing granted by the ECB Legal Research Programme 2022. Co-author/presenter: S. Allegrezza

• Girona, 23-27 May 2022, 1st Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week. Speaker of the plenary panel “Factual errors in evidential legal reasoning: identification and strategies of reduction”. Speech: Miscarriages of Justice, Forensic Evidence and Evidential Legal Reasoning: A Focus on False Confessions

• Bologna, 30 March 2022, University of Bologna. Seminars: Sfide recenti e nuovi paradigmi dell’informatica forense. Speech: Policing via Multi-Agent Systems: un nuovo volto per la digital forensics (e non solo)?

• Bologna, 25 February 2022, University of Bologna. Organization of the final conference of the CrossJustice Project (https://site.unibo.it/cross-justice/en/agenda/crossjustice-final-conference ), entitled Empowering Defence Rights Through Algorithms and AI. Speech: Conclusive Remarks of the conference and the Project

• Wroclaw, 20 January 2022, Digital Justice Center of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of Wroclaw (Poland). Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and EU Criminal Justice: challenges and opportunities

• Wroclaw, 19 January 2022, Digital Justice Center of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of Wroclaw (Poland). Lecture on Admissibility of Digital Evidence in the EU

• ERA, Academy of European Law, 10 December 2021. Conference: Criminal Law and Human Rights: Recent ECtHR Case Law. Improving Standards of the Defence in Criminal Proceedings through Recent ECtHR Case Law. Speech 1: Implications of “ne bis in idem” (Nodet v France; Velkov v Bulgaria; Mihalache v Romania). Speech 2: The relationship between the case law of the ECtHR and of the CJEU regarding “ne bis in idem”

• Bologna, 2 December 2021. Conference: German-Italian Dialogue on Smart Algorithms, Trust and (the Diffusion of) Power. Speech: Presentazione del Progetto di ricerca CrossJustice

• Roma (online), 19 November 2021, University Sapienza. Conference: La valutazione della prova scientifica. Speech: Errore giudiziario e false confessioni. Spunti per una riflessione sulla valutazione della prova

• Trento (online), 12 November 2021, University of Trento, Conference: Intelligenza artificiale e processo penale. Indagini, prove, giudizio. Speech: Difendersi dall’IA o difendersi con l’IA? Verso un cambio di paradigma

• Bologna (online), 20 October 2021, Fondazione Forense Bolognese, Conference: Diritto al silenzio e presunzione d’innocenza tra prassi giudiziaria italiana e prospettive europee alla luce della direttiva 2016/343/EU. Speech: Il diritto al silenzio e a non autoincriminarsi nel dialogo fra Corte costituzionale e Corte di giustizia

• Bologna/Leuven (online), 8 June 2021, Conference funded by the Research Project EmpRiSe: Il diritto al silenzio. Tra pratica giudiziaria e prospettive europee. Speech: Il dialogo fra Corte costituzionale e Corte di giustizia sul diritto a non autoincriminarsi

• Bologna, 3 May 2021, Università di Bologna, Seminars of Digital Forensics: Deepfake: la nuova frontiera del falso d’autore. Speech at the roundtable: Quale dialettica tra intelligenza artificiale e informatica forense? on the application of AI technology to digital forensics in AML/CFT

• Bologna, 22 April 2021, University of Bologna, Seminars of Digital Forensics: Verso standard comuni europei per lo scambio della Digital Evidence. Speech: Overview of the European legal framework

• ERA, Academy of European Law, 15 April 2021. Conference: Procedural Rights in the Context of Evidence-Gathering. Speech: The admissibility of (electronic) evidence in the EU

• Consob, Seminario Ufficio Sanzioni Amministrative, 31 March 2021. Conference: Prospettive europee di diritto sanzionatorio dei mercati finanziari. Prime esperienze. Speech: Il dialogo Corte Costituzionale/Corte di Giustizia sul privilegio contro la autoincriminazione e il diritto di rimanere in silenzio. Le garanzie di fair trial nei procedimenti sanzionatori: lezioni per la supervisione

• Bologna, Scuola di specializzazione per le professioni legali E. Redenti, 29 March 2021. Seminar: Amending the charges and giudizio abbreviato (about Sez. un., n. 5788/2020)

• Fiesole-European University Institute/online, 22-23 February 2021. Transnational Training and Conference, organized within the Research Project: CrossJustice (DG JUST). Speech: Presentation of the CrossJustice Project and of the Main Legal Challenges in the Implementation of the Criminal Procedure Directives

• Torino/online, 26 January 2021. Final conference of the Project: InterLex (DG JUST). Speech: Presentation of the CrossJustice Project

• Frankfurt Am Main, Goethe-Universität, 25 January 2021. Kolloquium Recent Developments in European Criminal Law. Seminar: The right to remain silent in the case law of the Court of Justice and the Court in Strasbourg

• Siracusa, Conference of AIDP Young Penalist and X Corso di Formazione interdottorale di Diritto e Procedura Penale “Giuliano Vassalli”, 22- 24 October 2020. Conference: I nuovi volti del sistema penale fra cooperazione pubblico-privato e meccanismi di integrazione fra hard law e soft law. Speech: L’introduzione di meccanismi di Public Private Partnerships in materia di antiriclaggio e antiterrorismo: un'analisi comparata sulle nuove tendenze di outsourcing del processo penale

• Alma AI- Centro di Intelligenza Artificiale, Università di Bologna, 1 July 2020. Seminar: AIs, lawyers, and judges. Speech: AI nel processo penale: la prospettiva del giurista

• Banca d’Italia, Roma, 22 June 2020. Conference: Unione Bancaria e indagini penali. Speech: Ne bis in idem e procedimento amministrativo punitivo nell’ambito del MVU

• European Central Bank, Frankfurt Am Main, 17 January 2020, Invited to present the monograph G. Lasagni, Banking Supervision and Criminal Investigation. Comparing the EU and US Experiences

• Bologna, 22 October 2019, Kick off meeting: CROSSJUSTICE - Coordination and Speech on the main challenges in creating automated advisory modules in the field of criminal procedural defence rights

• Luzern, 11 July 2019, IVR International Conference. Speech "The Role of Predictive Systems in Criminal Investigations: Accountability, Discriminatory Effects and Fair Trial Guarantees" - with G. Contissa

• Bologna, 31 May 2019, Kick off meeting: DEVICES Hercule III Project - Coordination and Speech on the "legal state of play of digital investigation at the supranational level

• Bologna, 10 May 2019, Conference: "L'intelligenza artificiale nell'orizzonte del diritto". Speech: "L’intelligenza artificiale al servizio della giustizia"

• Bologna, 1 April 2019, Seminar: "Algoritmi predittivi e indagini penali: responsabilità, effetti discriminatori e giusto processo"

• Champaign, University of Illinois (USA), 23 January 2019, Speech: "Ne bis in idem and banking supervision. Testing the scope of criminal law procedural safeguards"
  

• Luxembourg, 30 November 2018, EUBAR Final Conference: “Toward an Integrated Enforcement of Banking Regulations: The case of the Single Supervisory Mechanism”. Speech: “Two Enforcement Systems and Two Sets of Procedural Safeguards?”

• Basel, 25 April 2018, Early Career Scholars' Session of the 10th Conference on the Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems 2018. Speech:The Role of Predictive Algorithmic Systems in Criminal Investigations:Accountability, Discriminatory Effects and Fair Trial Guarantees

• Luxembourg,30 November 2017, EUBAR Project – IV Working Group Meeting. Speech:The hybrid nature of financial and banking investigations

• Cadiz, 16-17 November 2017, IV Processulus. Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigatores en Derecho Procesal. Hacia un proceso eficaz. Speech:Re-thinking personal search in the digital era: How smart phones (should) change a traditional investigative measure in Italy and in the US.

• Wroclaw, 9-10 October 2017, Conference on the Limitations of Individual's Rights in Criminal Proceedings. Speech: Using Drone Technology in Criminal Investigation

• Bologna, September-December 2017: Lectures on the institutions and the legal basis of the EU criminal law and procedure, within the course of EU and International Procedural Law, Prof. M.Caianiello

• Pisa, March 2017, Lecture held on a professional training for lawyers on the use of digital technology

• Bologna, March 2017: lectures on the institutions and the legal basis of the EU criminal law and procedure, within the course of EU and International Procedural Law, Prof. M. Caianiello;

• Bologna, 20 February 2017, Scuola di Specializzazione per le Professioni Legali E. Redenti, Lecture on Wire-tapping through Trojan viruses (Cass. pen., Sez. un., 28 aprile 2016, Scurato);

• Roma, 6 June 2016, Università LUISS G. Carli, Jurisprudence Symposium. Speaking discussant on the paper by J. Edwards "Standing in criminal law";

• Bologna, 12-14 May 2016, 8th Conference on the Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial System Criminal Investigations in the Age of Smart Data A Transatlantic Perspective. Speech: "The new frontiers of online investigations in Italy";

• Bologna, 12 March 2016, Corso di Alta Formazione in Diritto Penale Europeo. Lecture held on The new Directive 343/2016 on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings;

• Bologna, 28 October 2015, Lecture held on The liability of legal entities in the EU and in the US - Course of advanced criminal procedure (University of Bologna, Prof. M. Caianiello);

• Bologna, 5 October 2015, Scuola di Specializzazione per le Professioni Legali E. Redenti, Lecture held on The Falciani's list and the critical issues concerning the use of evidence illicitly obtained (Cass. pen., sez. III, ord. 17 aprile 2013, n. 29433);

• Siracusa/Noto, 18-20 September 2015, ISISC-AIDP Sesto corso di formazione interdottorale di Diritto e Procedura Penale "Giuliano Vassalli". Speech on the issue of the development of judicial and administrative cooperation in the EU;

• Moscow, 22-23 June 2015, Center for International andComparative Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Conference “Criminal Law and Business Affairs", organised by the International Association of Penal Law; speech on the issue of bank supervision in the EU and in the US.