Alessandro Corda is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Comparative and Cross-National Justice System Studies at the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - University of Minnesota Law School (Minneapolis, U.S.A.) where he is also affiliated to the Institute on Crime and Public Policy. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota Law School, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the Yale Law School and a Research Scholar at the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at the New York University School of Law. He is also a member of the editorial board of the law journal Criminalia: Annuario di Scienze Penalistiche. He holds a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pavia School of Law (Italy), a Ph.D. in Criminal Law from the University of Pavia and an LL.M. from the New York University School of Law, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Hauser Global Scholarship. His primary research interests include sentencing, comparative criminal law and penal policies, sociology of punishment, criminal law theory, white-collar and corporate crime, and the impact of neuroscience on the administration of criminal law. |