Full professor of Criminal law at the University of Palermo. In 2012, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security (York University, Toronto); in 2013, Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Currently, Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence “Europe between Mobility and Security: the Challenges of Illicit Trades in the Mediterranean Area (EUMoSIT)” (2019 - 2022) (P.I. Vincenzo Militello), based at the University of Palermo. Formerly, Project Manager of the Jean Monnet Module on “Mobility, Security and the new media” (2015-2018) (P.I. Vincenzo Militello), based at the University of Palermo. He has extensively written, among other things, on corruption, hate speech, criminalization of migration and the relationships between fundamental rights and criminal law