I am a scholar of evidence law and criminal law. My main interest is in the philosophy underlying these two areas of law. My research involves insights into epistemology, inductive logic, statistics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of mind.

Law of Evidence: LL233

• 'The Presumption of Innocence: A Deflationary Account' Modern Law Review (November 2020)
• 'Can the Reasonable Doubt Standard be Justified? A Reconstructed Dialogue' Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2018) 31 (2) pp.365-402
• 'The Denial of Procedural Safeguards in Trials for Regulatory Offences: A Justification' Criminal Law and Philosophy (2017) 11, pp. 681-703
• 'Do Theories of Punishment Necessarily Deliver a Binary System of Verdicts? An Exploratory Essay'  Cr. L. & P. 2018, 12(4), 555-573
• 'Generalisations, causal relationships and moral responsibility' The International Journal of Evidence & Proof (2016) 20 (2) pp.121-135
• 'Base-rates of Negative Traits: Instructions for Use in Criminal Trials' Journal of Applied Philosophy (2016) 33 (1) pp.69-87
• 'The threshold lies in the method: Instructing jurors about reasoning beyond reasonable doubt' The International Journal of Evidence and Proof (2015) 19 (3) 139-153
• 'Legal Reasoning as Fact Finding? A Contribution to the Analysis of Criminal Adjudication' (2014) 5(2) Jurisprudence 299–327
• 'Innocence and burdens of proof in English criminal law' Law, Probability and Risk (2014) 13 (3-4): 243-257
• ‘Le Narrazioni nella Giustizia Penale’ Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, 15 October 2013
• 'Two Meanings of "Reasonableness": Dispelling the "Floating" Reasonable Doubt'  Modern Law Review (2013) 76 (5) pp.845-875
• ‘La Decisione della High Court Inglese nel Caso Nicklinson: Confermata l’Illiceità dell’Eutanasia Attiva’ – Comment to Tony Nicklinson v. Ministry of Justice, [2012] EWHC 2381 (Admin), in Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, 9 October 2012
• 'Regno Unito: un Nuovo Importante ‘Right-to-Die Case’ in Materia di Eutanasia Attiva' – Comment to Tony Nicklinson v. Ministry of Justice and Others [2012] EWHC 304 (QB), in Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, 13 April 2012
• 'Nascere e Risiedere in Italia non Basta per Essere Cittadino Italiano…' Questione Giustizia (2012), 5, pp. 153-156
• 'Structuring Inferential Reasoning in Criminal Fact Finding: An Analogical Theory' Law, Probability & Risk (2012) 11 (2/3) pp.197-223
• 'A Retributive Justification for not Punishing Bare Intentions or: on the Moral Relevance of the ‘Now-Belief' Law and Philosophy (2012)
• 'Factual Inference as Analogical Reasoning. A Comment on Peter Tillers’s "The Structure of Proof in Modern Trials"’ Law, Probability & Risk, 10, p. 7 (2011)
• Diritto Penale, Patteggiamento e Ragionevole Dubbio, in Rivista Italiana di Diritto e Procedura Penale, 52, p. 1457 (2009)
• ‘Lo Stato d’Ebbrezza tra Accertamento Sintomatico e Soglie di Rilevanza Penale’, in La Prova dei Fatti Psichici (Carmela Piemontese and Emma Venafro eds., Giappichelli, 2009)
• L’Accertamento Sintomatico nella Nuova Fattispecie di Guida Sotto l’Influenza dell’Alcool alla Prova del Ragionevole Dubbio, in Corriere del Merito, 23, p. 601 (2008)

Can the Reasonable Doubt Standard be Justified? A Reconstructed Dialogue

• review of Dale A. Nance, The Burdens of Proof: Discriminatory Power, Weight of Evidence, and Tenacity of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 330 pp., ISBN 978-1-107-12418-9’, in Jurisprudence, Vol. 9, Issue 1, p. 192 (2018). 

• Winner of the LSE Student-Led Teaching Excellence Award 2017 in the category ‘Feedback and Communication’
• My paper ‘Base Rates of Negative Traits: Instructions for Use in Criminal Trials’, in Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 33(1), pp. 69-88 (2016) won the prize for best essay published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy in 2016 (the prize included a monetary award, and free registration and accommodation for the next Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference)
• Nominee for the LSE Student-Led Teaching Excellence Awards, 2015 and 2016
• Class Teacher Prize, awarded by the LSE Law Department, 2013