Maria Crippa

Postdoctoral researcher

Maria Crippa is Research Fellow at the University of Milan (Department of Criminal Law “Cesare Beccaria”) and Fellow of the Re:Constitution 2024/2025 Program (Forum Transregionale Studien - Democracy Reporting International, Stiftung Mercator).

She got a PhD with honors from the University of Milan in 2022, successfully defending a thesis on the domestic implementation of international criminal law into the Italian legislation. As part of her doctoral program, she was visiting scholar at Humboldt University in Berlin with a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2021.

Since 2022 she has been involved in the Project of Excellence “International Criminal Law and Current Instruments of Judicial Cooperation on International Crimes,” organized by the CNPDS/ISPAC foundation and funded by the Ministry of Justice - Department of Justice Affairs.

With Florian Jeßberger and C. Meloni, she is editor of the volume “Domesticating International Criminal Law” (Routledge, 2023) and author of the chapter “How to Implement Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide in the Italian System”. She is editor of the observatory on international criminal justice for the four-monthly journal “I diritti dell’uomo. Cronache e battaglie” (Editoriale Scientifica).

From March 2022 to April 2024 Maria worked as legal advisor at the Court of Appeals in Milan. She is a qualified lawyer in Italy since 2019. In 2016 she interned at the International Criminal Court (Appeals Division), under the supervision of Judge Piotr Hofmański.