Luca Poltronieri Rossetti teaches Governance of International Crises at the University of Verona and International Criminal Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.

He has been post-doctoral researcher in international law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (2019-2025) and he holds a PhD in international law from the University of Trento. He has been visiting fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law and he has interned with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

His main research and teaching interests include international criminal law, sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict and the protection of human rights in situations of armed conflict and disaster.

In 2020, he was awarded the “Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize” (OUP) for his article “The Pre-Trial Chamber’s Afghanistan Decision: A Step Too Far in the Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion?”, published in JICJ (2019) 585-608.

Luca is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Italian Review of International and Comparative Law.