Profile
Michele Caianiello is Deputy Head of the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna since November 2015. His main research interest is in the field of Criminal Procedure, especially the areas of European Criminal Law, Comparative and International Criminal Law and Tax Criminal Law. He took part in several national and international research projects, including:
- Suspects in Europe. Procedural Rights at the Investigative Stage of the Criminal Process in the Europen Union, coordinated by Ties Prakken e Taru Spronken, Università di Maastricht, AGIS 2005;
- Rethinking European Criminal Justice, coordinated by Ulrich Sieberg, Max-Planck Institut fur Auslandische-und-Internationale Strafrecht, Freiburg, AGIS 2006;
- Effective defence rights in the EU and access to justice, coordinated by Taru Spronken, University of Maastricht, European Commission, 2007;
- Criminal and administrative investigations in the field of VAT and Custom Duties, from national practices to an EU integrated system of information and Evidence Exchange; and
- the Olaf project on "Investigations and Sanctions for VAT frauds: Fundamental Principles and Comparison across EU Member States in the frame of the Hercule III program".
Publications
Michele Caianiello’s recent publications include:
- ‘Law of Evidence at the International Criminal Court: Blending Accusatorial and Inquisitorial Models’, in 36 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 287 (2011), pp. 287-318;
- Premesse per una teoria del pregiudizio effettivo nelle invalidità processuali penali (Premises for a Theory of the Actual Prejudice in Procedural Criminal Invalidities), Bononia University Press (BUP), Bologna, 2012, pp. 1-216;
- ‘Models of Judicial Cooperation with Ad Hoc Tribunals and with the Permanent International Criminal Court in Europe’, in S. Ruggeri (ed.), Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings, Springer International Publishing AG, Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 1 – 13;
- ‘The Proposal for a Regulation on the Establishment of an European Public Prosecutor's Office: Everything Changes, or Nothing Changes?’, in European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2013, p. 115-125;
- La nuova direttiva UE sull’ordine europeo di indagine penale tra mutuo riconoscimento e ammissione reciproca delle prove (The new EU directive on the European order of criminal investigation between mutual recognition and mutual admission of evidence), in Processo penale e giustizia (Journal of Criminal Trial and Justice), 2015, p. 1-11; and
- Di Pietro - M. Caianiello (co-authors), ‘Il progetto e la ricerca “Criminal and Administrative Investigations in the Field of VAT and Customs duty”’ (The Project and the Research“Criminal and Administrative Investigations in the Field of VAT and Customs duty”), in M. Caianiello, A. Di Pietro (eds.), Indagini penali e amministrative in materia di frodi IVA e di imposte doganali. L’impatto dell’European Investigation Order sulla cooperazione (Criminal and administrative investigations on VAT fraud and customs duties. The impact of the European Investigation Order on cooperation), Cacucci, Bari, 2016, p. IX-XIII.
Public Engagement
Together with the University of North Carolina, the University of Warwick and the University of Basel he created a research network on criminal justice – The Future of Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems (for further information click here). Michele Caianiello is also a Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.
