Maria Falcone

Phd candidate in Criminal Law

Born in Salerno in 1999, she graduated with honours in Law from Bocconi University (Milan) in October 2022, with a thesis in Criminal law entitled “Sistema sanzionatorio, alternative alla detenzione ed esecuzione della pena nei confronti dei soggetti vulnerabili: evoluzione, prassi e criticità”, supervised by Professor Melissa Miedico. During her studies, she took part in the Bocconi Legal Clinics project, working as a volunteer at the Legal Counselling Desk of Bollate prison. She was also Executive Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Bocconi Legal Papers, the official law journal of the Bocconi University School of Law, and president of the Student Associations “Res Ethica” and “Keiron - La casa dei penalisti”. From March 2022 to June 2022, she carried out a curricular internship at the Tribunale per i Minorenni of Milan (sezione GIP/GUP). In September 2022, she completed the Summer School of Higher Education on Deprivation of Liberty and Fundamental Rights, organised by the Antigone Association and the Department of Law of the University of Turin. From November 2022 to April 2023, she attended the Higher Education Course “Profili teorici e pratici dell’esecuzione delle pene e delle misure di sicurezza” at the University of Milan-Bicocca. In June 2024, she obtained the Master of Laws from the Pavia-Bocconi School of Specialization for Legal Professions, during which she carried out an internship at Tribunal for Administrative Justice of Lombardy (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale). Since September 2023, she collaborates with the Chair of Criminal Law at Bocconi University. Since October 2023, she is a Ph.D student in Criminal Law at the “Cesare Beccaria” Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Milan.