Research Projects

Ongoing and completed projects

Ongoing projects

  • “Historical and Contemporary Trajectories of Criminal Execution in Emilia-Romagna”, a project coordinated by Prof. Susanna Vezzadini, with the participation of: Provveditorato dell’Amministrazione penitenziaria Emilia Romagna-Marche (PRAP), Department of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Legal Sciences, Department of Education Studies. Through the analysis of the PRAP historical archives, the project aims to relate the legislative innovations in the field of criminal execution to the economic and political-cultural environments in the years 1945-2000.

 

  • “Gatekeepers to international refugee law? The role of Courts in shaping access to asylum (ACCESS)”. The ACCESS project seeks to understand how national and supranational Courts from across the globe adjudicate on barriers to accessing asylum. It adopts a comparative approach analysing adjudication practices from 10+ national jurisdictions and 4 supranational courts. The working hypothesis is that differences in judicial findings on barriers to accessing asylum may stem from socio-legal and political factors, some of which, like adjudication systems and comparative reasoning, have been understudied by legal scholarship. Principal Investigator: prof. Madalina Moraru. Website: https://site.unibo.it/access/en

 

  • The organization of civil trial in the event of a pandemic: virtuous models for managing judicial activities (FIRS 2020). The research project's objective is to identify prototypical models containing good practices for managing court activities in the civil area that can be used in case of future pandemics, in light of the experience gained during Covid-19. Coordinator: prof. Elena Zucconi (participants: lawyer Carolina Mancuso, lawyer Giorgia Ottobre, prof. Daniela Cavallini, prof. Michele Sapignoli). 

Completed projects (non exhaustive list)

  • "Improving the transfer of persons pursuant to mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters and the citizens' fundamental rights protection", led by Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Department of Law, and co-funded by the European Commission (2016-2018). Website: https://www.euprisoners.eu/

 

  •  “The capacity building of environmental justice and guarding environmental rights in Western China”, Università di Bologna, in collaboration with Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing (2013-2014)

 

  • "Menu for Justice. Toward a European Curriculum Studiorum on Judicial Studies", Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus), directed by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy (2009-2012)

 

  • "Trasferimento delle funzioni, fattore dimensionale ed esperienze di fusioni: una prospettiva intersettoriale", project financed by ANCI/Ministero dell'Interno, directed by Cristina Dallara e Silvia Bolgherini. (2015)

 

  • “Promoting prosecutorial accountability, independence and effectiveness”, directed by Open Society Foundation-Sofia (Bulgaria) (2005)

 

  • “Recruitment, professional evaluation and career of judges and prosecutors in Austria, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy and Spain”, directed by prof. G. Di Federico (2003-2005)