Domenico Rosani (1991) is a tenured assistant professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. He holds a double PhD from the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Padova (Italy). Previously, he worked at the University of Innsbruck and at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

Domenico’s expertise lies in European and comparative criminal law, with an emphasis on human rights protection, children’s rights, and technology. He is particularly focused on the legal systems of Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and on issues at the interface between national criminal law, EU law and international law.

In his research fields, Domenico has advised national, European and international institutions, such as the Lanzarote Committee of the Council of Europe and the Council of the European Union. 

Before joining Utrecht University, Domenico was a research and teaching associate in criminal law at the University of Innsbruck (2018-2023). Prior to his academic career, he worked at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, at the Representation of the European Region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol-Tirol in Brussels, at national courts and as a freelance journalist. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Italian Chamber of Journalists. He studied law at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Rotterdam.

Domenico carried out research stays as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (2021), the European University Institute (2020) and the Unicef Centre of Research - Innocenti (2020). He is a fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI) and of the Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi/Akademie deutsch-italienischer Studien, as well as a member of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP). In 2020, Domenico won the Best Paper Award of the Faculty of Law of the University of Innsbruck. In 2023, he received the Franz-Gschnitzer-Preis, awarded by Innsbruck’s Faculty of Law for the best doctoral dissertations.

Domenico is fluent in English, Italian and German, while his Dutch is gradually improving.