Phd in PUBLIC LAW

email: francesco.caprioli@uniroma1.it
phone: 3477987707
building: CU-002
room: stanza 3 della Sezione di Diritto Penale, Procedura Penale e Criminologia, terzo piano della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza

Francesco Caprioli graduated in Law in 1986 (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Turin, defending a thesis in Criminal Procedure on the removal of criminal proceedings ("Rimessione dei procedimenti penali"). His supervisor was Prof. Gilberto Lozzi; his thesis was awarded the right of publication.
In March 1992 he was appointed University Researcher for the disciplinary grouping No. 10 (hereinafter Scientific Disciplinary Sector IUS16). Until October 31, 1998 he served at the Department of Legal Sciences of the Faculty of Law, University of Turin. From November 1, 1998 to October 31, 2000 he served as Associate Professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cagliari. From November 1, 2000 to October 31, 2004 he served as Full Professor (Straordinario) of Criminal Procedural Law at the same Faculty. From November 1, 2004 to September 30, 2013, he served as Full Professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law of the University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna. From October 1, 2013 to December 20, 2022 he served as Full Professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the Department of Law, University of Turin. Since December 21, 2022, he has served as Full Professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the Department of Legal and Economic Studies, Sapienza University of Rome. He has held the professorships of Criminal Procedural Law (University of Cagliari, Bologna and Turin), Criminal Execution Law (University of Cagliari, Bologna and Turin), Criminal Evidence Law (University of Turin), Elements of Criminal Procedure and Forensic Toxicology (University of Turin).
From 2014 to 2020 he was a member of the Teaching Board of the PhD program "Rights and Institutions" at the Department of Law, University of Turin. Since January 2024, he has been a member of the Teaching Board of the PhD Program in Public Law at the Department of Legal and Economic Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.
He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Cassazione Penale, the Scientific Committee of the journal Archivio della Nuova Procedura Penale and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Forensic Sciences (IJFSC).
From February 2011 to May 2013, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (“Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura”).
From 2008 to 2014, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association among Criminal Trial Scholars (“Associazione tra gli studiosi del processo penale”)
In 2018, he was among the scientific leaders of the international research project "The People's Jury in the Face of Technological Evidence," funded by CUIA (Italian InterUniversitary Consortium for Argentina), aimed at conducting a workshop as part of the eleventh edition of the Jornadas del CUIA en Argentina (April 2019). Since 2023 he has been national coordinator of the PRIN (Project of Relevant National Interest) entitled "PRIORITY. Shaping the Prosecution Organisational Model of Criminal Reports," admitted for funding by MUR Decree No. 1409 of September 23, 2023.
He served on three Ministerial Reform Commissions:
(a) by Decree of the Minister of Justice July 27, 2006, he was appointed as a member of the Ministerial Commission for the Reform of the Code of Criminal Procedure chaired by Prof. Giuseppe Riccio;
(b) by Decree of the Minister of Justice June 10, 2013, he was appointed as a member of the Ministerial Commission for the Study of Proposals for Regulatory Intervention in Criminal Procedure chaired by Dr. Giovanni Canzio.
(c) by Decree of the Minister of Justice December 14, 2017, he was appointed as a member of the Working Group in charge of implementing the 2016-2017 European Delegation Law, so as to ensure the timely transposition and adaptation of the domestic system to the European requirements on the protection of personal data, chaired by Prof. Giusella Finocchiaro.
He was frequently convened by the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to be addressed as an expert.
He has taken part, as a speaker or session chair, in many scientific conferences of national and international relevance.
From 2014 to 2018, he was president of the Norberto Bobbio Library at the University of Turin.
From April 17, 2018 to September 1, 2022, he served as a Criminal Appellate Judge in the Republic of San Marino.
His main research areas are: the principle of the natural judge (judge previously ascertained by law and removal of proceedings); the legality principle (mandatory prosecution); the right of secrecy of communications and law of evidence; the jurisdiction on the sentence enforcement phase ("giurisdizione esecutiva"); the dynamics of evidentiary reasoning.