Introduction

Fiammetta Bonfigli holds a Ph.D. in Legal Studies and Sociology of Law from the University of Milan, and defended her thesis on “Immigration, Security, Neighbourhood. A Study between Milan and Madrid” in 2014. Previously, she had earned her Bachelor degree in law at University of Milan, spent an Erasmus stay at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and earned her MA in sociology of law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Basque Country, Spain.

Dr. Bonfigli has an outstanding teaching record in legal history, sociology of law and transitional justice. From 2014 to 2018, she worked as a postdoc researcher at La Salle University (Canoas, Brazil). From 2019 to 2023, she was a visiting professor at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Vitória, Brazil) where she taught history of criminal law systems and history of dispute resolution in the Master programme in procedural law, as well as legal anthropology in the Bachelor course in law. Moreover, she created and taught courses on transitional justice and methodology in legal research. She has been a supervisor of MA students and an external member of thesis defence examining committees at both public and private universities.

Dr. Bonfigli has published extensively in international journals, conference proceedings and books, and has been an invited speaker and panellist at numerous international seminars, conferences and workshops. She has also been a key member of research teams in Brazil and Europe that received prestigious national/international funding.