Marco Fabri is research director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems, Bologna branch. He also has been a research fellow at the College of Law of the University of Denver, and at the National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, Virginia (USA).

He has coordinated several European research projects on the administration of justice and has served as a scientific expert for institutions such as the Council of Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, the World Bank, OSCE, the Italian Judicial School, the Italian Ministry of Justice. As an expert of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), and its SATURN Centre, he took part in the development of CEPEJ tools on time management, timeframes, efficiency of courts, case weighting, and participated in co-operation projects in Portugal, Croatia, Latvia, Slovakia, Albania, and Kosovo.

He is one of the founders, and past President, of the Justice Administration Research Association (JAR-Association).

His research interests and publications are in the areas of judicial administration, justice reform, court and case management, courts and public prosecutors’ governance and organisation, information and communication technology in the justice system, always with a comparative perspective.