Prof. Dr. Michele Pifferi

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsHistory of Law, Constitutional History,General Criminal Law
KeywordsHistory of migration law, Comparative history of criminal law, History of criminology, Penal law, Rule of law
Honours and awards

2022: Leverhulme Visiting Professor - Centre for Criminology - University of Oxford

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityFerrara
InstitutionUniversita degli Studi di Ferrara
InstituteFaculty of Law
Homepagehttp://giuri.unife.it/it

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Florian JeßbergerFakultät für Rechtwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Florian JeßbergerLehrstuhl für Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Internationales Strafrecht und Juristische Zeitgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2015

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2025Pifferi, Michele and Vano, Cristina and Nuzzo, Luigi and Pifferi, Michele and Speciale, Giuseppe: Exceptionality and Common Features of Migration Law in the Age Of Mass Migration. Legal Responses to Mass Migration. London: Routledge, 2025. 337-357
2024Pifferi, Michele: The Historical Origins and Evolution of Rehabilitative Punishment. In: Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.), 53, 2024, 103-160
2023Pifferi, Michele: The post-WWII criminal law doctrine in Italy and the challenges of the republican Constitution. Some considerations on the methodological issue and the purpose of punishment/La penalistica del dopoguerra e le sfide della Costituzione repubblicana. Qualche considerazione sul problema del metodo e il fine della pena. In: Giornale di storia costituzionale, 2023, 211-
2021Pifferi, M.: The Limits of Criminological Positivism: The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940. Routledge, 2021
2019Michele Pifferi: Antinomie e caratteri costanti dello ius migrandi tra Otto e Novecento. In: Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, 2019, 395-407
2019Michele Pifferi: Criminology and the Rise of Authoritarian Criminal Law, 1930s–1940s. In: Stephen Skinner, Ideology and Criminal Law Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes. Hart Publishing, 2019. 105-124
2019Michele Pifferi: Veritatis inquisitio per tormenta. Verità, corpo e dolore nella tortura giudiziaria medievale. In: Luigi Sortoni, Donato Castronuovo, Nulla è cambiato? Riflessioni sulla tortura. BUP, 2019. 43-66
2016Dr. Michele Pifferi: Reinventing Punishment. A Comparative History of Criminology and Penology in the 19th and 20th Century. Oxford University Press, 2016