Ottavio Quirico is an Associate Professor with the School of Law at the University of New England and the Australian National University's Centre for European Studies, and a Senior Researcher at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Pisa's Department of Political Science and at the Law Department of the Federal University of Paraiba in João Pessoa. He has held several other senior positions in universities across the globe and has acted as a consultant to the United Nations. He is, inter alia, the co-author of Australian Uniform Evidence Law (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn., 2022).