Sgrò Laura

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Laura Sgrò

Lawyer and writer

She graduated in law from the University of Messina with a thesis in comparative criminal law on sexual crimes against minors, comparing Italian law with English law, examining the famous, as well as terrible, court case of little Sarah Payne, an eight-year-old girl kidnapped and killed by a sexual predator in West Sussex. The horrendous crime had kicked off the campaign for the approval of “Sarah’s Law” with the establishment of the Sexual Offenders Register. After graduating, he moved to Rome where he obtained a licentiate in Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University and, subsequently, a doctorate in Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. She obtained the Program of Excellence for Lawyers in Personality Rights and Protection of Human Dignity at the Italian Data Protection Authority. He is an expert in Private Law and Comparative Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the Niccolò Cusano Telematic University.
In addition to being a lawyer in the Italian State, he is also a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Vatican City State and at the Labour Office of the Apostolic See. The achievement of the title of Rotal Advocate allows her to plead before every ecclesiastical tribunal in the world, as well as before the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. Known for having personally followed some famous cases, one above all that of Emanuela Orlandi (she is in fact the lawyer of the missing girl’s family).
In 2018 the Corriere della Sera awarded her an important award, including her in the 70 women of the year for the battles she has supported in the search for the truth. She was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2024 with her book “Cercando Emanuela” (Ed. Rizzoli) and in 2025 with the book “Stupri Sacri” (Ed. Rizzoli).