Dr Federica Coppola PhD

Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, IE University Law School, Spain

Federica Coppola is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at IE University Law School. Prior to joining IE, she was Senior Researcher in the Dept. of Criminal Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law (2021-2023), where she currently is a Research Affiliate. From 2017 to 2020, she was Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University in New York, a lecturer in Criminal Law & Neuroscience at Columbia Law School, and a postdoc scholar at the Social Relations Lab & the Center for Justice at Columbia University’s Dept. of Psychology. Her expertise spans sentencing and punishment, criminal constitutional law, neurojustice, social justice, incarceration and fundamental rights, and solitary confinement. Her work has been featured in journals such as the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Criminal Law and Philosophy, the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She is the author of “The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind: Novel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment” (Hart Publishing, 2021) and the co-editor (with Adriano Martufi) of “Social Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice” (Routledge, 2024). Her second monograph, “The Real Pain of Punishment”, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Federica holds a JD summa cum laude from University of Bologna, an LL.M and a PhD in Law from the European University Institute (EUI).

Jarrell Daniels

PhD researcher, New York University, USA

Jarrell E. Daniels is a distinguished Community Organizer, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and the visionary Founder of the Justice Ambassadors Youth Council (JAYC) at Columbia University’s Center for Justice. His journey from incarceration to academia is underscored through his commitment to societal change. Currently a Ph.D researcher in Psychology and Social Intervention at New York University, Jarrell’s research explores the impact of resource scarcity and adversity on adolescent development, with particular focus on the dynamics of adolescent contact with the criminal legal system. His work as a gang interventionist and research scholar at Columbia further reflects his dedication to transforming the lives of vulnerable youth. In addition to his leadership with JAYC, Jarrell co-developed the 12-month Project Restore gun-gang violence intervention program that aims to address gun and gang violence in marginalized communities through a combination of community-based interventions, policy reform, and local partnerships.