3rd Ed. Research Event “Agrocrime, Agroterrorisme and Global Commons: Legal Responses to Transboundary Threats for Safeguarding our Common Heritage”
SALERNO HOSTS THE 3rd JEAN MONNET “EU-GLOBACT” RESEARCH EVENT ON SAFEGUARDING GLOBAL COMMONS
Salerno, February 24, 2026 – The University of Salerno hosts at the ROOM 5 (Building B1) of the Department of Legal Sciences the Research Event titled “Agrocrime, Agroterrorism and Global Commons: Legal Responses to Transboundary Threats for Safeguarding our Common Heritage”.
The event is an integral part of the activities of the Jean Monnet Module EU-GLOBACT (Transnational Crime and EU Law), a project of excellence co-funded by the European Commission (2023-2026), and of the International and European Criminal Law Observatory (IECLO). Both are based at the Department of Legal Sciences (DSG) of the University of Salerno.
The meeting promotes an interdisciplinary debate on the protection of agricultural systems as the common heritage of mankind, consolidating the historical scientific axis between the University of Salerno, Aix-Marseille Université, and Le Mans Université. The initiative highlights the profound legal convergence between Italy and France in defending rural integrity: both countries, pillars of the European agricultural model, share the challenge of countering sophisticated transboundary criminal networks threatening productive excellence and supply security in the Mediterranean and beyond.
This partnership is supported by established Erasmus+ Agreements (with Aix-Marseille University) and by a research partnership and scientific cooperation protocol aimed at fostering academic mobility and the exchange of best practices between Italian and French criminal law doctrines, historically united in defining new ethical and regulatory standards for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The opening of the proceedings is entrusted to the institutional greetings of Prof. Virgilio D’Antonio, Rector of the University of Salerno, Prof. Francesco Fasolino, Director of DSG, and Prof. Giuseppe D’Angelo, President of the Didactic Council of the DSG.
The scientific session is chaired by Prof. Marie-Luce Demeester, Emeritus Professor of Private Law and Criminal Sciences at Aix-Marseille Université. The introduction is delivered by Prof. Anna Oriolo, Associate Professor of International Law, Leader of the Jean Monnet Module EU-GLOBACT, and Director of IECLO. This is followed by the Keynote Lecture by Prof. Virginie Mercier, Full Professor of Private Law and Criminal Sciences and Director of the IDEDD (Aix-Marseille), the scheduled speech by Francesco Foccillo, Ph.D. candidate in Legal Sciences (Salerno), and the conclusions by Prof. Sylvie Lebreton-Derrien, Associate Professor in Private Law and Criminal Sciences at Le Mans Université, General Secretary of the French Association of Rural Law. See the Italian version and the French version.
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