Michele Papa

Michele Papa is Professor of Criminal Law and of Comparative Criminal Law at the University of Florence, Italy. He is also a parliament appointed member of the High Council of the Italian Judiciary (Consiglio superiore della magistratura). He has previously been a member of the Consiglio di Presidenza della giustizia amministrativa, (term 2018-2022, appointment by the Senate of the Italian Republic).

He was Dean of the University of Florence Law School (2006-2009) and Vice President of the University from 2009 to 2011 when he moved to Columbia Law School as a Visiting professor for the Fall semester (2011). He returned as a Visiting professor to Columbia Law School again in the Fall of 2013. He has been a visiting professor at Miami Law School (winter 2017-2021), Stanford University (Florence campus 2014-2020), Osaka University (Winter 2014), Georgetown University in Washington D.C. (Fall 2003). He was an Academic Visitor at King’s College (London, 1995) and at De Paul University College of Law (Chicago, 1984-1986). He is co-director of the Italian main Criminal Law treatise, Trattato di diritto penale, (Wolters Kluwer), member of the editorial board of the Law Review, "Criminalia", and Co-director of the law books Series, “Quaderni di diritto comparato, internazionale ed europeo” (Giappichelli publisher).

Michele Papa has also been a scientific consultant for the United Nations and for the European Union Commission.