Riccardo Montana

LLB (Pavia), LLM, PhD (Cardiff)
Lecturer in Law
Email: Riccardo.Montana.1@city.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 3058

Riccardo joined The City Law School in September 2011 and teaches Contract Law and Criminal Law. He was previously a Lecturer at Kingston University, Law School; he taught Comparative Criminal Justice, EU Law and UK Constitutional and Administrative Law at Cardiff University and was a Supervisor in Law at Cambridge University, Homerton College.

Riccardo completed his LLB at the University of Pavia (Italy) in 2003, and was awarded an LL.M in European Legal Studies from Cardiff University in 2005. He received his PhD degree in Comparative Criminal Justice from Cardiff University in 2009.

Riccardo's areas of research are Comparative Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Socio-Legal Studies. He is particularly interested in the concept of legal culture and how crime control agencies respond and adapt to legal and social dynamics in postmodern societies.

Publications

• 'Adversarialism in Italy: using the concept of legal culture to understand resistance to legal modifications', (forthcoming January 2012) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.

• R. Montana and D. Nelken, 'Prosecution, legal culture and resistance to moral panics in Italy', in C. Smith, S. Zhang and R. Barberet ed., Routledge Handbook of International Criminology (Routledge, New York, 2011) pp. 286-297.

• R. Montana 'Pubblico ministero e pratiche di selezione del crimine. Cultura giuridica e rappresentazioni di senso comune: perché si può ancora sperare' (Prosecutors and the definition of the crime problem. Legal culture and populist images of crime: why there is still hope) Volume 2-3, December 2009 Antigone. Quadrimestrale di critica al sistema penale e penitenziario, 274-298

• R. Montana 'Paradigms of judicial supervision and co-ordination between police and prosecutors: the Italian case in a comparative perspective', (2009) 17(4) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 309-333

• R. Montana "Prosecutors and the definition of the crime problem in Italy: balancing the impact of moral panics", (2009) 20(4) Criminal Law Forum, 471-494

Current Teaching

Contract Law (LLB)
Criminal Law (LLB)