Founding Partner of Saccucci & Partners and Head of the International Desk in Tirana. Member of the Bar of Rome.

Giulia started working with Professor Saccucci in 2012 and co-founded Saccucci & Partners in 2017. Prior to joining the firm, Giulia worked at Baker & McKenzie and Lana-Lagostena Bassi.

Giulia specializes in complex and high-profile litigation in the field of public international law and human rights, with a particular focus on criminal law, extradition, judicial cooperation in criminal matters, and immigration. She acts for a wide range of clients before international courts, particularly the European Court of Human Rights. She has sound experience in matters involving the Republic of Albania.

Giulia obtained her Ph.D. cum laude in Human Rights and International Law from the University of Palermo. While working on her doctoral thesis, Giulia was a Visiting Fellow at Middlesex University in London and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. From 2017 to 2021, Giulia lectured on International Criminal Law at LUMSA University in Rome. From 2021, Giulia is Adjunct Professor at LUMSA University of European Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters, with a particular focus on Extradition and European Arrest Warrant.

Giulia is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of eXtradando.

Giulia is a member of the editorial board of Diritto e questioni pubbliche and Giurisprudenza Penale, and a member of Extradition Lawyers’ Association, Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum and the Legal Experts Advisory Panel (LEAP) of Fair Trials International.

She lectures regularly on human rights and has written on various topics of international law and human rights.

Foreign languages: English and Albanian