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).

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Name: Laura
Surname: Neumann
Nationality: German
Address: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Juristisches Seminar, Prof.-Huber-Platz 2
80539 München
E-Mail: laura.neumann@jura.uni-muenchen.de
Internet-Page: www.jura.uni-muenchen.de

 

EDUCATION

  • 2005 – 2007: law studies and legal language studies (French, Italian), Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2007 – 2008: law studies (mainly Italian, European and canonical law), Università degli Studi Roma Tre of Rome, Italy
  • 2008 – 2011: law studies, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany
  • 2011: First Legal State Exam (Munich)
  • 2011 – 2013: academic assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Helmut Satzger (Chair of German, European and International Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Economic Criminal Law, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany)
  • 2011: three-month research stay at Harvard Law School Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • 2012: three-month and one-month research stays at Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library of Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
  • 2014: “Dr. iur.“ – doctoral thesis on the potential model character of the US-American Criminal Law system for the vertical distribution of powers in the Criminal Law system of the European Union (Das US-amerikanische Strafrechtssystem als Modell für die vertikale Kompetenzverteilung im Strafrechtssystem der EU?, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014), promoted by a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
  • 2013 – 2015: legal clerkship (Referendariat)in Münster, Germany (district court), Berlin, Germany (Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Department of International Criminal Law, European and Multilateral Criminal Cooperation), Düsseldorf, Germany (law firm) and Tokyo, Japan (German Embassy)
  • 2015: Second Legal State Exam (Münster)
  • 2015 – 2017: academic assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Helmut Satzger (Chair of German, European and International Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Economic Criminal Law, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany)
  • since 2015: „Habilitandin“ (work on postdoctoral thesis on European Capital Market Criminal Law)
  • since 2017: recipient of the Bavarian Gender Equality Grant (BGF) (Habilitation stipend)

 

RESEARCH FIELDS

  • German Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
  • European Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (European Capital Market Criminal Law in particular)
  • International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
  • Economic Criminal Law

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • German (native language)
  • English (fluent)
  • Italian (fluent)
  • French (advanced)
  • Spanish (basics)

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • European Criminal Policy Initiative (ECPI)
  • Permanent Working Group on International Criminal Law (Arbeitskreis Völkerstrafrecht)
  • Permanent Working Group on European Criminal Law (Arbeitskreis Europäisches Strafrecht)
  • Young Criminal Law (Junges Strafrecht e.V.)
  • Association Internationale de Droit pénal (AIDP)

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

Books:

  • Das US-amerikanische Strafrechtssystem als Modell für die vertikale Kompetenzverteilung im Strafrechtssystem der EU?, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014, Series: Schriften zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht, Vol. 18 (doctoral thesis)

 

Articles:

  • Klassische und aktuelle Probleme der Strafbarkeit nicht genehmigter Kraftfahrzeugrennen, Juristische Ausbildung (JURA) 2017, pp. 160-170
  • Tagungsbericht: Strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit politischer Entscheidungsträger – Criminal Liability of Political Decision Makers, 27./28.5.2016, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Zeitschrift für Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatik (ZIS) 2017, pp. 196-200
  • Eine Antwort auf die Vorlagefrage zu § 252 StPO, Zeitschrift für Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatik (ZIS) 2016, pp. 59-67
  • Kriegsverbrechen im IStGH-Statut und die neue Realität – Erfassung bewaffneter Konflikte mit nicht-staatlichen transnationalen Akteuren wie dem Islamischen Staat?, Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft (ZStW) 2016, pp. 998-1020
  • The Shared Competence for Criminal Law, European Criminal Law Review (EuCLR) 2015, pp. 325-336

 

Contributions:

  • Die politischen Dimensionen des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, in: Albrecht/Geneuss/Giraud/Pohlreich (eds.), Strafrecht und Politik, 6. Symposium Junger Strafrechtlerinnen und Strafrechtler, Potsdam 2017, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018, pp. 131 – 146
  • Die Normentheorie und das Verhältnis von Kriminal- und Verwaltungs­strafrecht, in: Schneider/Wagner (eds.), Normentheorie und Strafrecht, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft (forthcoming)