GATTA GIAN LUIGI

Gian Luigi Gatta is Full Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Milan, Department of Law “Cesare Beccaria”, where he teaches and conducts research in substantive criminal law. He is President of the Italian Association of Criminal Law Professors and Scientific Coordinator of the University of Milan’s postgraduate programme on anti-corruption law.
He graduated in Law from the University of Milan, obtained admission to the Italian Bar, and practiced as a criminal lawyer in Milan. After serving as Research Fellow and Associate Professor, he became Full Professor of Criminal Law in 2016. From 2017 to 2023 he was Head of the “Cesare Beccaria” Department of Law and, in different terms, a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Milan.
He has been Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School (2016–2018), Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University (2018), and Visiting Scholar at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile (2022).
From 2020 to 2024 he served on the Board of Directors of the Italian School for the Judiciary, acting as Vice President from 2023 to 2024. Between 2021 and 2022 he was Legal Advisor to the Italian Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, and Vice President of the Ministerial Commission on criminal procedure and sanctions reform. He also served on ministerial commissions concerning prison reform and civil unions.
Prof. Gatta has acted as expert witness and legal expert in proceedings before foreign courts and arbitral tribunals, including matters before the High Court of England and Wales and advisory work for the Crown Prosecution Service.
He is the author of two monographs and over 200 publications in Italian and international criminal law. He co-edits leading Italian criminal law handbooks and is co-editor of Controlling Immigration Through Criminal Law (Hart, 2021). He is Director of the journals Sistema penale and Diritto penale contemporaneo and serves on the advisory board of the Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Criminal.