Dr. iuris Nicolás Santiago Cordini

Nicolás Santiago Cordini is an accomplished legal academic and researcher. Since 2024, he has served as an invited professor for the specialization in criminal law at the University of Córdoba and, since 2022, as adjunct professor at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Argentina, where he teaches criminal law and research methodology. Since 2020, he has also been an adjunct professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), focusing on criminal policy and political science.

As adjunct researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Cordini specializes in law and international relations, located at the Ambrosio Lucas Gioja Institute, Law Faculty, UBA. His research covers the intersection of criminal law, environmental law, transitional justice, and economic crimes. He has received several prestigious scholarships and fellowships, including a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, formerly Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, in Freiburg i.Br., Germany, and an Erasmus Mundus fellowship for research at the University of Strasbourg, France, and the University of Göttingen, Germany.

RCC Research Project: Ecocide and Transboundary Environmental Crimes: Different Possibilities for Inter- and Transnational Jurisdiction

Selected Publications:

• “Perpetrators and Accomplices: A Comparative Study Between the German Penal Code and the American Model Penal Code.” [Autores y Partícipes: Un Estudio Comparado entre el Código Penal Alemán y el Código Penal Modelo de los Estados Unidos.] Derecho PUCP, no. 92 (2024): 269–99. https://doi.org/10.18800/derechopucp.202401.008.
• “Harmonization of Criminal Law: A Multi-Actors Process Moving at Different Speeds in Argentine Legislation.” Revista de Estudos Criminais-REC, no. 84 (2022): 13–31.
• “Treaty Crimes and Argentine Criminal Law: Internalization of Criminal Law and its Effects on Domestic Law.” Journal of International Criminal Law, no. 3 (2022): 22–47.
• “Conspiracy, Accomplice and Pinkerton Liability: Where does Criminal Responsibility end? A Study on the U.S. Criminal Liability System.” [Conspiración, Cómplice y Responsabilidad Pinkerton: ¿Dónde Termina la Responsabilidad Penal? Un Estudio sobre el Sistema Penal Estadounidense.] Revista de la Facultad de Derecho, no. 53 (2022): e20225301. https://doi.org/10.22187/rfd2022n53a1.
• “The Internationalization of Criminal Law: Transnational Criminal Law, Basis for a Regional Theory of Criminal Law.” Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas 8, no. 1 (2018): 261–75. https://doi.org/10.5102/rbpp.v8i1.5163.