Emanuela Fronza

Academic Board
Board Member

Emanuela Fronza is Associate Professor of Criminal law at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Bologna, where she teaches International and European Criminal Law. She also teaches "International and Comparative Criminal Law" in the Second Cycle Degree in Legal Studies and "International Criminal Justice" in the International Relations Master’s program.  She is the Scientific Coordinator of the Project 'Cinema and Law' of the Department of Legal Sciences and the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna. In the past, she has been a member of the Ministry of Justice Committee for the elaboration of a "Code of International Crimes”. She has been Principal Investigator of HERA-funded MELA (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective) Project. She has been Visiting Professor at several international universities, Fellow of the "Alexander von Humboldt Foundation" and Scientific Coordinator of the Law Clinics in International Criminal Law of the University of Paris 1. Her research interests fall within the broad areas of criminal law, international and European criminal law and transitional justice. Her latest book focuses on historical denialism and the limits of free speech (Memory and Punishment. Historical Denialism, Free Speech and the Limits of Criminal Law, Springer, 2018)