On 15 November 2024, at the initiative of the Head of the International Relations Department Daria Minchenko and with the support of the President of the University Sergii Kivalov, Stefano Maffei, Professor of the University of Parma (Italy) and founder of the English for Law and International Transactions projects, visited the National University of Odesa Law Academy.
Stefano delivered an interactive film lecture ‘O.J. Simpson - the trial of the century’ for students and faculty of the National University of Odesa Law Academy, during which the audience watched fragments of a documentary about the investigation of one of the most high-profile criminal cases in the history of the modern United States.
Professor Maffei focused the audience's attention on the key aspects of the jury's consideration and resolution of the criminal case and the specifics of evidence; he demonstrated why the prosecution's position did not work and how the case of the famous football player is connected to the African-American radical movement.
Returning to the Odesa Law Academy for the first time since 2012, Stefano Maffei praised the conditions of study at the OLA, which managed to maintain quality education in the face of war, expressed his support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in the war against Russia, and invited students and teachers to participate in educational programmes organised by EFLIT in Italy, the UK and the USA in 2025.
