Goran Mazzucchelli

Presentation

After fulfilling his teaching assistance duties at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at University of Bern, where he completed his PhD, Goran Mazzucchelli has been practising the law since 2000. Since 2018, he has been appointed lecturer in Swiss Substantive Criminal and Procedural Law at the University of Lucerne. From 2009 to 2017, he was an adjunct professor of Swiss Criminal Law at Uninsubria in Como.

He regularly holds courses in criminal law at the University of applied sciences and arts of southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the Centro Studi Villa Negroni. From 2007 to 2019, he was a member of the Review Committee for Dangerous Convicted Felons in the Canton of Ticino. Since 2020, he has been substitute judge for the coercive measures in the field of the law on foreign nationals of the Canton of Ticino. He is further Vice-President of the Swiss Football League’s Court of appeal (SFL). In addition, he acts both as an arbitrator and a counsel in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. Goran Mazzucchelli was a member of the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution’s Court (SCAI) and is still a member of the GASI committee (ASA Group of the Canton of Ticino). Since 2021, he has been an arbitrator from the pool elected by financial intermediaries within the Court of Arbitration of the Self-Regulatory Organisation (SRO) of the Swiss Bar Association (SBA) and Swiss Notary Association (SNA). During the years, he has participated in various study groups created by both the Government of Canton Ticino and the Federal Council in the field of criminal and procedural legislation.

He regularly publishes doctrinal content in Italian and German. In 2023, Goran Mazzucchelli was an official speaker at the annual conference of the Swiss Society of Criminal Law (SKG-SSDP) on the revision of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Training

Professional Experience

• from 1993 to 1998 | Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at University of Bern, chair Prof. Karl-Ludwig Kunz
• 1994 | Research Assistant at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Berne (Prof. Dirnhofer)
• 1998 | Apprenticeship at District Court of Locarno-Campagna
• from 1998 to 1999 | Apprenticeship at the Office of Appeals of the Consiglio di Stato
• 1999 | Clerk at District Court of Mendrisio-Nord
• from 1999 to 2000 | Legal practice at Law Firm Cattaneo & Postizzi, Lugano
• from 2000 to 2017 | Lawyer at Law Firm Cattaneo & Postizzi (Cattaneo & Postizzi Studio legale SA since 2010), Lugano, registered at the Barrister Register of the Canton of Ticino
• since 2018 | Lawyer at Law Firm and Civil Law Notaries CBM Cattaneo Bionda Mazzucchelli, Lugano

Other activities

• since 2018 | Appointed lecturer in Swiss Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Lucerne
• since 2015 | Lecturer at SUPSI (University of applied sciences and arts of southern Switzerland), Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Business Law and Business Crime
• since 2024 | Lecturer at Centro Studi Villa Negroni, CAS Compliance in Financial Services
• from 2009 to 2017 | Adjunct professor of Swiss Criminal Law at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (Como)
• 2015 and 2016 | Member of the workgroup created by the Federal Office of Justice at the request of the Swiss Federal Council and charged with reviewing the Criminal Code
• since 2018 | Vice-President of the Swiss Football League’s Court of Appeal
• from 1993 to 2017 | Member of the Swiss Football League’s Court of Appeal
• from 2021 | Arbitrator from the pool elected by financial intermediaries within the Court of Arbitration SRO-SBA-SNA
• since 2015 | Member of the GASI committee (ASA Group of the Canton of Ticino)
• from 2015 to 2021 | Member of the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution’s Court
• from 2007 to 2019 | Permanent member of the Review Committee for Dangerous Convicted Felons set up by the State Council of Canton Ticino

Publications

• 1994 | Criminalità, politica criminale e riforma del codice penale, in: Rep. 127 (1994), p. 215-229, also in: Kriminologisches Bulletin 21 (1995), n. 1, p. 47-66
• 1996 | Die Sicherungsfunktion des langen Freiheitsentzuges, in: recht 14 (1996), p. 206-214
• 1999 | Il tempo per punire. Elementi criminologici e sociopolitici per una riforma delle pene e delle misure privative di libertà di lunga durata, Bern – Stuttgart – Vienna, 1999
• 2000 | Öffentliches Sicherheitsbedürfnis, Kriminalität und die Funktion der strafrechtlichen Sanktion aus kriminologischer Sicht, in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis, 11/2000, p. 1337-1344
• 2000 | Mehr Sicherheit dank härteren Urteilen?, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 2/3 September 2000
• 2003 | Die Verwahrung ist kein Gottesurteil, in: Plädoyer 2/2003, p. 36-44
• 2003 | Criminalità minorile, in: dati: statistiche e società 2/2003, p. 18-21
• 2007 | Art. 41 StGB, in: Basler Kommentar zum Strafgesetzbuch, vol. I, edited by M.A. Niggli/H. Wiprächtiger, 2nd edition, Basel
• 2007 | Potere di rappresentanza del gestore patrimoniale esterno e ratifica finta di operazioni non autorizzate sul conto bancario del cliente. Nota alla sentenza 23.5.2007 della II Camera civile del Tribunale d’appello, AFP c. Banca X, in: CommercialArbitration.ch, Rivista on-line di diritto commerciale, procedurale e arbitrale, n. 7+8/2007, p. 11-16
• 2009 | Il contratto di mandato nel diritto bancario, in: M. Postizzi/M. Annovazzi (edited by), Il contratto di mandato nell’ordinamento giuridico, collana CFPG vol. 43, p. 69-132
• 2011 | Art. 115-121, 136-138, 338 StPO, in: Basler Kommentar zur Strafprozessordnung, edited by M.A. Niggli/M. Heer/ H. Wiprächtiger, Basel
• 2011 | Art. 39 ZPO, in: Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung. DIKE-Kommentar, edited by A. Brunner/D. Gasser/I. Schwander, Zurich/St. Gallen
• 2012 | Rischi penali dell’intermediario finanziario svizzero nel caso di reati fiscali commessi da clientela tedesca alla luce dell’accordo fiscale con la Germania, in: Novità fiscali, 2012, p. 66-74
• 2013 | Art. 41 StGB, in: Basler Kommentar zum Strafgesetzbuch, vol. I, edited by M.A. Niggli/H. Wiprächtiger, 3rd edition, Basel.
• 2014 | Art. 115-121, 136-138, 338 StPO, in: Basler Kommentar zur Strafprozessordnung, edited by M.A. Niggli/M. Heer/ H. Wiprächtiger, 2nd edition, Basel
• 2016 | Art. 39 ZPO, in: Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung. DIKE-Kommentar, edited by A. Brunner/D. Gasser/I. Schwander, 2nd edition, Zurich/St. Gallen
• 2019 | Art. 41 StGB, in: Basler Kommentar zum Strafgesetzbuch, vol. I, edited by M.A.Niggli/H.Wiprechtiger, 4th edition, Basel
• 2023 | Art. 115-121, 136-138, 338 StPO, in: Basler Kommentar zur Strafprozessordnung, edited by M.A. Niggli/M. Heer/H. Wiprächtiger, 3rd edition, Basel
• 2024 | Art. 39 ZPO, in: Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung. DIKE-Kommentar, edited by A. Brunner/I. Schwander/M. Vischer, 3rd edition, Zurich/St. Gallen
• 2024 | Lo Stato estero come accusatore privato con specifico riferimento ai reati di corruzione e di organizzazione criminale, in; S. Heimgartner/O. Thormann/N. Zufferey (edited by), Tempus fugit (Festschrift for 20 years of the Federal Criminal Court), 2024, p. 207-219.
• 2025 | Correlazioni tra procedure penali e civili: litispendenza, sospensione e impugnazioni (co-autore), in:  F. Trezzini/G. Molo (edited by), Commentario pratico al Codice di diritto processuale civile svizzero – Approfondimenti tematici, Lugano.

Professional Memberships