Dr Federico Picinali

I earned a Degree in Legal Sciences and a Specialized Degree in Law at the Università degli Studi di Milano. I then studied at the Yale Law School and at the Università degli Studi di Trento, where I earned an LL.M. and a Ph.D. in law, respectively. During these formative years I was an exchange student at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a visiting researcher at the UC Hastings College of the Law, at the Cardozo School of Law, and at Penn Law. Just prior to becoming an Assistant Professor at LSE Law School, I was a visiting fellow at LSE Law School and a LSE Fellow. I have been admitted to the Italian Bar.

I teach and research in criminal law and evidence law, with a particular interest in theoretical approaches to these subjects. I have written on the criminal standard of proof, on inferential reasoning in legal fact-finding, on statistical evidence, on improperly obtained evidence, on criminal intention and on self-defence, among other topics. I have published in several journals, including the Modern Law Review, Law & Philosophy, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Criminal Law & Philosophy, the International Journal of Evidence & Proof, Jurisprudence, and Law, Probability & Risk. In 2022 I have published Justice In-Between, a monograph on intermediate criminal verdicts for the Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice Series (OUP).

I am currently investigating how epistemic injustice affects fact finding in the criminal process.

I am the coordinator of the LSE .

I live in Sheffield with my wife – philosopher Jules Holroyd – our two daughters and our dog. I am a keen rock climber and a qualified rock climbing instructor and coach, and I often visit the crags of the nearby Peak District.

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