In 1979 he became "sostituto procuratore" (deputy prosecutor) at the Agrigento court, a position he kept until 1989, when he was appointed assistant judge (giudice a latere).

[1] During his career, Livatino worked against corruption, and gained success in a number of cases, obtaining the seizure of large sums of money and property and the arrest of senior figures in organised crime.

His story inspired a novel, Il giudice ragazzino ("The Boy Judge"), written by Nando Dalla Chiesa in 1992, and this was made into a film with the same title in 1994 by director Alessandro di Robilant.

Servant of God Rosario Angelo Livatino was officially proclaimed Blessed on Sunday, 9 May 2021, in the Cathedral of Agrigento, Sicily by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on the same day that John Paul II, in 1993, in the Valley of the Temples, addressed his determined call to the Mafia: "Be converted!

The Center maintains an online website, organizes periodic workshops and an annual conference, as well as publishes the semi-annual juridical journal l-Jus (from a Roman Catholic and thomistic point of view.