Valentina Alberta

Valentina Alberta is a criminal defence lawyer in Milan, an expert in prison law and former president of the Milan Criminal Law Chamber.

She has been on the Milan roll of lawyers since 1998 and, since 2011, on the roll of those admitted to plead before the Court of Cassation. She graduated with honours in Law from the University of Pavia in 1995 and took a doctorate in Criminal Procedure at the University of Ferrara in 2000.

After graduating she devoted herself exclusively to criminal law, working with established firms; for several years she has worked in particular on prison law and the enforcement of sentences.

She attended the third cycle of the advanced school of the Italian Union of Criminal Law Chambers, is on the roll of specialists in criminal law and is a member of the Milan Criminal Law Chamber, of which she was vice-president from 2021 to 2023 and president from 2023 to 2025. She now sits on its Prison Commission, monitoring conditions in detention and protecting the rights of those held.

She was a subject expert in Criminal Procedure at Pavia and is now a subject expert in Prison Law at the University of Milan. She has published in specialist journals including Il Foro Ambrosiano, Archivio Penale, Sistema Penale, Diritto di difesa and Giurisprudenzapenale.com, and has spoken at conferences and courses for lawyers and at the School for the Judiciary.

She was a “visiting researcher” at UCLA School of Law. Besides Italian, she assists clients in English and German.