Length of trials in the Italian Judicial System: An Efficiency Analysis by Macro-Area
In recent years, the Italian judicial system has been at the center of both the political debate and policy
actions aiming at modifying the territorial structure and the organization of the courts as well as the procedural
processes. The measures adopted concerned the reorganization of the magistrates career and the
reform of judicial districts.
Despite the several reforms, the Italian judicial system does not reach yet the European standards,
principally for the so called magistrate-duration procedures binomial, according to which the number of