Francesco Viganò

Francesco Viganò (born 1 March 1966) is an Italian judge and criminal law professor at the Bocconi University in Milan. He was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by president Sergio Mattarella, and sworn in on 8 March 2018.

Biography Viganò graduated in 1989 at the University of Milan, and after having stayed at LMU Munich from 1991 to 1993, in 1998 he obtained a research PhD from the University of Pavia.

A researcher since 1995 at the University of Brescia, in 2001 he became an associate professor at the same university teaching Comparative Penal Law. From 2004 to 2016, he taught Advanced Criminal Law and European Criminal Law at the University of Milan. From November 2016, he has taught Criminal Law and Transnational Criminal Law at the Bocconi University.

On 24 February 2018, he was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by president Sergio Mattarella as replacement of Paolo Grossi.