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Diritto penale contemporaneo – Rivista trimestrale is an on-line, open-access, non-profit legal journal. All of the organisational and publishing partnerships are provided free of charge with no author processing fees. The journal, registered with the Court of Milan (n°554 - 18/11/2011), is currently produced by the association “Progetto giustizia penale”, based in Milan and is published with the support of Bocconi University of Milan, the University of Milan, Roma Tre University, the University LUISS Guido Carli, the University of Barcelona and Diego Portales University of Santiago, Chile.
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Editor-in-chief
Editorial Board
Italy: Antonio Gullo, Guglielmo Leo, Luca Luparia, Francesco Mucciarelli, Francesco Viganò
Spain: Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, Sergi Cardenal Montraveta, David Carpio Briz, Joan Queralt Jiménez
Chile: Jaime Couso Salas, Mauricio Duce Julio, Héctor Hernández Basualto, Fernando Londoño Martinez
Editorial Advisory Board
Rafael Alcacer Guirao, Alberto Alessandri, Silvia Allegrezza, Chiara Amalfitano, Giuseppe Amarelli, Ennio Amodio, Coral Arangüena Fanego, Lorena Bachmaier Winter, Roberto Bartoli, Fabio Basile, Hervé Belluta, Alessandro Bernardi, Carolina Bolea Bardon, Manfredi Bontempelli, Nuno Brandão, David Brunelli, Silvia Buzzelli, Alberto Cadoppi, Pedro Caeiro, Michele Caianiello, Lucio Camaldo, Stefano Canestrari, Francesco Caprioli, Claudia Marcela Cárdenas Aravena, Raúl Carnevali, Marta Cartabia, Elena Maria Catalano, Mauro Catenacci, Antonio Cavaliere, Massimo Ceresa Gastaldo, Mario Chiavario, Federico Consulich, Mirentxu Corcoy Bidasolo, Roberto Cornelli, Cristiano Cupelli, Francesco D'Alessandro, Norberto Javier De La Mata Barranco, Angela Della Bella, Cristina de Maglie, Gian Paolo Demuro, Miguel Díaz y García Conlledo, Ombretta Di Giovine, Emilio Dolcini, Jacobo Dopico Gomez Áller, Patricia Faraldo Cabana, Silvia Fernández Bautista, Javier Gustavo Fernández Terruelo, Marcelo Ferrante, Giovanni Fiandaca, Gabriele Fornasari, Novella Galantini, Percy García Cavero, Loredana Garlati, Mitja Gialuz, Glauco Giostra, Víctor Gómez Martín, José Luis Guzmán Dalbora, Ciro Grandi, Giovanni Grasso, Giulio Illuminati, Roberto E. Kostoris, Máximo Langer, Juan Antonio Lascuraín Sánchez, Maria Carmen López Peregrín, Sergio Lorusso, Ezequiel Malarino, Francisco Maldonado Fuentes, Stefano Manacorda, Juan Pablo Mañalich Raffo, Vittorio Manes, Grazia Mannozzi, Teresa Manso Porto, Luca Marafioti, Joseph Margulies, Enrico Marzaduri, Luca Masera, Jean Pierre Matus Acuña, Anna Maria Maugeri, Oliviero Mazza, Iván Meini, Alessandro Melchionda, Chantal Meloni, Melissa Miedico, Vincenzo Militello, Fernando Miró Linares, Vincenzo Mongillo, Renzo Orlandi, Magdalena Ossandón W., Francesco Palazzo, Carlenrico Paliero, Michele Papa, Raphaële Parizot, Claudia Pecorella, Marco Pelissero, Lorenzo Picotti, Carlo Piergallini, Paolo Pisa, Oreste Pollicino, Domenico Pulitanò, Serena Quattrocolo, Tommaso Rafaraci, Paolo Renon, Lucia Risicato, Mario Romano, Maria Ángeles Rueda Martín, Carlo Ruga Riva, Stefano Ruggeri, Francesca Ruggieri, Dulce Maria Santana Vega, Marco Scoletta, Sergio Seminara, Paola Severino, Nicola Selvaggi, Rosaria Sicurella, Jesús Maria Silva Sánchez, Carlo Sotis, Andrea Francesco Tripodi, Giulio Ubertis, Inma Valeije Álvarez, Antonio Vallini, Gianluca Varraso, Vito Velluzzi, Paolo Veneziani, John Vervaele, Daniela Vigoni, Costantino Visconti, Javier Wilenmann von Bernath, Francesco Zacchè, Stefano Zirulia
Managing Editor
Editorial Staff
Enrico Andolfatto, Enrico Basile, Emanuele Birritteri, Javier Escobar Veas, Gaia Filocamo, Stefano Finocchiaro, Alessandra Galluccio, Elisabetta Pietrocarlo, Rossella Sabia, Tommaso Trinchera, Maria Chiara Ubiali