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Petter Asp

Prof. Dr. Petter Asp is University professor at the University of Stockholm (Sweden). He holds a LL.D. (Criminal Law) from the University of Uppsala 1998, served as a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Uppsala 1998-1999 and 2001-2003 as a special adviser at the Ministry of Justice 2000-2001 and has worked as a Professor of Criminal Law since 2003. Read more…

Sergiu Bogdan

Sergiu Bogdan

Prof. Dr. Sergiu Bogdan studied law in Cluj-NapocaSergiu Bogdan. He was admitted to the bar in 1997 and has since then taught criminal law at his Alma Mater, where he received his Ph.D. in criminal law in 2005. Since 2008, Prof. Bogdan heads the Department of Criminal Law at the law school. Read more…

Nikolaos Bitzilekis

Nikolaos Bitzilekis

Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Bitzilekis studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and asNikolaos Bitzilekis a DAAD scholar at the Institute of Criminal Studies in Cologne (Germany). Since 1988 he has served as a Lecturer, Assistent Professor and Associate Professor of Penal until he was appointed Professor in Penal law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2009, Prof. Bitzilekis serves as the President of the School of Law. Read more…

Pedro Caeiro

Pedro Caeiro (b. 1967) studied at the Faculty of Law of the Coimbra University, Portugal, where he started working as an assistant teacher immediately after having earned his law degree (1990). He received his PhD in 2008, with a thesis on the fundament, content and limits of the jurisdiction of the State over criminal matters. Since then, he is an Assistant Professor at the same Faculty, where he lectures criminal law and international judicial cooperation in criminal matters. He is a senior researcher with the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research (Instituto Jurídico), which he also helped to set up, as a member of its inaugural Coordinating Board (2013-2017). He has participated in several international research projects, mainly on European criminal law, and has taught in various countries as a visiting lecturer.

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Thomas Elholm

Prof. Dr. Thomas Elholm is a professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Human Rights and EU Law at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published extensively on these subjects. He is inter alia a member of the Standing Committee of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law of the Danish Bar and Law Society and of the Standing Committee on Research Policy of the Danish Ministry of Justice. Read more…

Luigi Foffani

Prof. Dr. Luigi Foffani is a professor of Criminal Law at the University of Modena.

Dan Frände

Prof. Dr. Dan Frände had studied and worked at the University of Helsinki before he was appointed Professor of Criminal and Procedural Law in 1997. He has published on a variety of subjects relating to Criminal Law and the Law of Criminal Procedure. Read more…

Helmut Fuchs

Helmut Fuchs

Prof. Dr. Helmut Fuchs was appointed Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Vienna. He serves as the Head of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology as well as the Head of the Senate of the University. Helmut Fuchs has published and lectured on all aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure and is a member of the Austrian Agency of Bioethics. Read more…

Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi

Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi

After studying law and doing research in Greece and Germany as a scholar of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundantion, Prof. Dr. Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi was appointed Professor for Criminal Law, International and European Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of Aristotle University in 1995. Besides her devotion to teaching and research, Maria Kaiafa serves at the Supreme Special Court of Greece and as a Professor at the Greek National Academy for Judges. She has shared her expertise with the European institutions numerous times. Read more…

Jocelyne Leblois-Happe

Prof. Dr. Jocelyne Leblois-Happe studied law and did research in France and Germany and has published on numerous legal issues involving these two jurisdictions. She was appointed Professor of Law in 2005 at the University of Strasbourg.Read more…

Dan Helenius

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Adán Nieto-Martín

Prof. Dr. Adán Nieto-Martín was appointed Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the Castilla la Mancha University (UCLM) in 1998. He focuses his research on European Criminal Law as well as Corporate Criminal Law and the Corruption. Currently, he acts as the Vice Director of of the European and International Criminal Law Institute at UCLM. Read more…

Laura Neumann

Dr. Laura Katharina Sophia Neumann studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany, the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany, and the Università degli Studi Roma Tre of Rome, Italy. Subsequently, she became an academic assistant of Prof. Dr. Helmut Satzger at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich and started her work on her doctoral thesis in Munich as well as at Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA, USA, and at Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2014 during her legal clerkship (Referendariat) in Münster, Berlin, Düsseldorf (Germany) and Tokyo (Japan). Currently, she is working on her postdoctoral thesis on European Capital Market Criminal Law which is promoted by the Free State of Bavaria with the Bavarian Gender Equality Grant (BGF). Read more…

Helmut Satzger

Prof. Dr. Helmut Satzger studied law at the University of Passau, Germany, and at King’s College, London, United Kingdom. After having completed his doctoral thesis in 1994, he worked as a legal clerk in Berlin, Paris and La Paz before he became an academic assistant to Prof. Dr. Werner Beulke at the University of Passau in 1995. After having completed his post-doctoral thesis on the influence of European law on criminal law, he was appointed professor of law at the Universities of Augsburg and Würzburg, the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. Since 2004, he holds a chair for German, European and International Criminal Law as well as White Collar Criminal Law and the Law of Criminal Procedure at the University of Munich and serves as the Dean of Student Affairs since 2010. Read more…

Sławomir Steinborn

Sławomir Steinborn is a professor of Criminal Procedure and European Criminal Law at the University of Gdansk (Poland). At Faculty of Law of this University he obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 and in 2012 he submitted his post-doctoral thesis on finality of the part of judgement in criminal process (Teilrechtskraft im Strafprozess). He did his research in Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg i. Br., Germany: from April 2008 till June 2009 as a fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and in August 2015 as a fellow of Max Planck Society. From 2013 till 2015 he was member of the Commission of the Criminal Law Codification by the Polish Ministry of Justice. Since 2016 he serves as a judge at Court of Appeal in Gdansk. He is author and co-author of ca. 150 scientific publications (in Polish, German and English), as well as author of more than 20 expertise’s prepared for the Polish Parliament, Polish Ministry of Justice, Polish Foreign Ministry and Council of Europe. His fields of interest include criminal procedure (esp. judicial remedies, appellation proceedings, international cooperation in criminal matters), European criminal law (esp. harmonization of criminal law and procedure) and criminal aspects of constitutional law. Read more…

Annika Suominen

Dr. Annika Suominen currently (from 2018) holds a position as an assistant professor in Criminal Law at Stockholm University, Sweden. She holds an LLM in law from the University of Helsinki, Finland (2006) and a PhD in Law at the University of Bergen, Norway (2011). Prior to working at Stockholm University, she worked for one year at the University of Helsinki and ten years at the University of Bergen amongst other as a postdoctoral research fellow and for the years 2015-2017 as an associate professor of criminal law. Her research interests are primarily EU criminal law and criminal procedure but also aspects of the general part of criminal law as well as immigration law. Her teaching experience covers Norwegian criminal law, Swedish criminal law, EU criminal law, constitutional and human rights law, health law as well as Norwegian criminal procedural law. Annika has published largely in her research area and has further conducted (together with prof. Husabø) a report for the Norwegian Ministry of Justice on the detention of foreigners in Norwegian law (2012). In addition to this, she has taken part in many research projects, both Nordic and European. Read more…

Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou

Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou

Prof. Dr. Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou studied law at the University of Thessaloniki, from which she also obtained her Ph.D. in 1982. She was appointed Professor of Criminal Law at her Alma Mater and also serves as professor at the National Academy for Judges and at the Open University of Thessaloniki. From 2004 till 2006, she belonged to the Special Court pursuant to Art. 99 of the Greek Constitution. Read more…

Francesco Viganò

Francesco Viganò currently serves as a judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, appointed by the President of the Republic on February 2018. He earned his bachelor degree in law at the Milan State University in 1989 and his PhD at Pavia University in 1998. He served as a lecturer and later as a professor of Criminal Law at Brescia University (1995-2004), Milan State University (2004-2016) and Milan Bocconi University (2016-2018). He is currently the Secretary General of the Société Internationale de Défense Sociale and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Siracusa International Institute for Human Rights and Criminal Justice. He is the co-founder of the online review “Diritto penale contemporaneo” and is currently the Editor-in Chief of the on-line review “Diritto penale contemporaneo – Rivista trimestrale” (https://www.penalecontemporaneo.it/rivista-trimestrale). He has given conferences and lectures in prestigious academic fora throughout the world and has been a member of several international research teams. His research currently focuses on human rights and criminal law, medical law, terrorism, organized crime, corruption. Read more…

Ingeborg Zerbes

Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Zerbes is a graduate of the University of Vienna. She worked as a scientific assistant and lecturer for criminal law and law of criminal procedure at the University of Vienna from 1995 till 1997, as a scientific assistant for Austrian criminal law and criminal procedural law at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg i. Br., Germany from 1997 till 2005, as a scientific assistant and lecturer for Criminal Law and criminal procedural law at the University of Basel (Switzerland) from 2000 till 2002 and was a fellow of the Austrian Academy of Science (Freiburg, Germany; New York). She obtained her Ph.D. in 1998 and submitted her post-doctoral thesis in 2011. She was appointed Professor of Criminal Law at the University of bremen in 2011. Her fields of interest include criminal law and the law of criminal procedure, in particular police and law enforcement, undercover policing, Economic Criminal Law and European Criminal Law. Read more…

Frank Zimmermann