Stefano Ruggeri is doctor juris at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa. Currently, he is Full Professor at the Law Department of Messina University, holding the chair of Criminal Justice by teaching Criminal Procedure Law, European and Transnational Criminal Justice, and Evidence Law. He is member of the editorial and advisory boards of various national and international journals (La Legislazione penale, Revista brasileira de direito processual penal, Revista de la Asociación de Profesores de Derecho Procesal de las Universidades Españolas), as well as the editorial board of the Book Series Procedura penale (Giappichelli) and Editor in Chief of the Book Series Legal Studies in International, Comparative and European Criminal Law (Springer International Publishing). He is was awarded a Humboldt-Fellowship for experienced researchers, carrying out his researches at the Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg i.Br.). His main research areas encompass, inter alia, general theory of law, evidence law, transnational criminal justice, comparative criminal law, and European criminal justice.