Third Parties in Criminal Proceedings

Stefano Ruggeri is Full Professor of Criminal Procedure Law, and European and Transnational Criminal Justice at Messina University. Experienced Researcher of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he is member of the scientific or editorial board of several Italian and foreign criminal law journals. Founder and coordinator of the Springer Book Series in "Legal Studies in International, European and Comparative Criminal Law". Moreover he is editor of other Springer volumes, and is author of several scientific works in the fields of Italian, European and transnational criminal justice, comparative criminal justice, and general theory of procedural law. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a research project with national relevance (PRIN) on new forms of legal protection of third parties in criminal justice in the light of the developments of digital transition, and responsabile for the research unity at Messina University on a research project with national relevance (PRIN) on new frontiers for a participatory criminal justice towards the thresholds of metaverse (P.I. Prof. Benedetta Galgani from Pisa University).Antonella Falcone is Doctor Iuris in Legal Studies at Messina University. Author of various scientific contributions on the independence of the judiciary, equality of arms, video-hearings, and other topics in the field of transnational criminal justice. Visiting researcher at University of Tübingen and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she is currently research fellow of criminal procedure law, and holds lecture courses on European and Transnational Criminal Justice in the Campus of Priolo at the Messina University, on European Criminal Law and on Evidence Law in Criminal Matters at the Messina University. She has taken part as a lecturer in several national and international scientific conferences in the field of criminal justice, and is currently member of the research project with national relevance (PRIN) on new forms of legal protection of third parties in criminal justice in the light of the developments of digital transition (P.I. Prof. Stefano Ruggeri from Messina University). Viviana Di Nuzzo is PhD candidate in Legal Studies at Messina University. Author of some scientific contributions about the protection of victims, invasive pretrial measures, ne bis in idem and third parties in criminal proceedings. Visiting researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidade de Lisboa. She is currently teaching fellow for the chair of criminal procedure law at Messina University. She has taken part as a lecturer in several national and international scientific conferences in the field of criminal justice and protection of human rights, and is currently member of the research project with national relevance (PRIN) on new forms of legal protection of third parties in criminal justice in the light of the developments of digital transition (P.I. Prof. Stefano Ruggeri from Messina University).

• PART I – Third Parties in Domestic Criminal Justice. - Report on Brasil (Vinicius Gomes de Vasconcellos, Guilherme Lucchesi).- Report on France (Barbara Drevet).- Report on Hungary (András Lichtenstein, Fantoly Zsanett).- Report on Italy (Diego Foti, Elisea Malino).- Report on Portugal (João Gouveia de Caires, Joana Reis Barata).- Report on Spain (Fernando Gascón Inchausti, Guillermo SchumannBarragán).- PART II – Third Parties in Criminal Justice. The Perspective of International and EU Law.- Victims and Third Parties in International Criminal Justice (Ana Beltrán Montoliu).- Third Parties in Criminal Proceedings in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Frederico Valdez Pereira, Luís Felipe Schneider Kircher).- The Acknowledgment of a Statute of Procedural Guarantees of Third Parties in Criminal Proceedings in ECHR Law: the Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights (Claudio Orlando).- The Protection of Third Parties and Victims in Criminal Proceedings in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Developments in EU Law (Antonella Falcone).- PART III – Comparative Frameworks.- - Third Parties and Their Formal and Substantial Participation in Criminal Justice: A Comparative-Law Analysis of Domestic Jurisdictions (Viviana Di Nuzzo, Antonella Falcone).- The Protection of Third Parties in Criminal Proceedings: A ConstitutionalLaw Perspective (Erika La Fauci).- PART IV – Reconstruction and New Challenges.- - A Phenomenology of Thirdness in Law. Preliminary Remarks (Angela Condello, Guglielmo Ciaccio).- Third Parties in Criminal Justice. An Everlasting Mystery in a Constantly Developing Legal World? (Stefano Ruggeri).- Appendix.