Serena Forlati

Prof.ssa Serena Forlati

Prof. Serena Forlati

Coordinator of MaCrOLab and member of Public Security and Individual Rights cluster


Serena Forlati is full professor of International Law and the Director of the Department of Law at the University of Ferrara. She is the co-coordinator of MaCrOLab, the inter-disciplinary research group on mafia and other forms of organized crime that she co-founded in 2011.

After graduating in Law at the University of Florence (1992), she obtained an LLM in European Legal Studies at the College of Europe (Bruges) and a PhD in International Law at the University of Rome – La Sapienza (1998). She was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Florence from 1999 to 2001, before joining the University of Ferrara as a researcher in 2002.

She is the author of two monographs, editor of several books (including “La lotta alla tratta di esseri umani – Fra dimensione internazionale e ordinamento interno”, Napoli, Jovene, 2013; "Redefining Organised Crime - A Challenge for the European Union?", with S. Carnevale and O. Giolo, Oxford, Hart, 2017), and of numerous articles and papers. Her research interests currently focus on international courts and tribunals and international human rights law and its interaction with international criminal law.



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