Stefano Zirulia is associate professor of Criminal Law at the University of Milan. His main field of research concerns the relationship between criminal law and human rights. He has published several contributions on environmental crime, disasters, occupational diseases, including the monograph Esposizione a sostanze tossiche e responsabilità penale (Giuffrè-Francis Lefebvre, 2018). More recently he has extensively addressed the field of “crimmigration”, publishing the edited collection Controlling Immigration Through Criminal Law, co-edited with Gian Luigi Gatta and Valsamis Mitsilegas (Hart, 2021), as well as the monograph Il favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione irregolare. Tra overcriminalization e tutela dei diritti fondamentali (Giappichelli, 2023).

Lidia Sandrini is full professor of International Law at the University of Milan. Her main field of research is private international law, from the perspective of both conflicts of jurisdiction and conflicts of law, as well as European regulatory instruments of uniform civil procedural law adopted for the purposes of judicial cooperation in civil matters, especially in relation to civil-commercial disputes. On these topics, she is the author of two monographs (Tutela cautelare in funzione di giudizi esteri, 2012, Cedam; L’interpretazione del diritto internazionale privato dell'Unione europea. Il caso della responsabilità da prodotto, 2018, Gioacchino Onorati Editore) and several articles/contributions in collections; on the same topics she has participated in five international research projects co-funded by the European Commission under the Justice Programme.

Cesare Pitea is associate professor of International Law at the University of Milan. Currently on leave, he works at the Council of Europe in the Information Society Department. Author of several articles and scientific contributions that focus on the nexus between human rights and the environment from an international-publicist perspective, as well as of the monograph Diritto internazionale e democrazia ambientale (Esi, 2013).