Project participants
Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach
[principal Investigator, specialist in Polish law]
habilitated PhD in legal science, associate professor of criminal law at the Law Faculty of Adam-Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), attorney at law. Her research interests focus on: various aspects of response to a crime, impact of conviction on third parties and victim status in criminal law. Author of publications in Polish, English and German, in the field of criminal law. Participant in international research projects in criminal law and victimology.
Szymon Chorodeński
[junior researcher]
graduate of the University of Economics in Poznań, fifth-year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań (Poland), participant of the diploma seminar on criminal law. His scientific interests focus on the issues of guilt, attribution of effect and the impact of the technological revolution on criminal law.
José-Luis de la Cuesta-Arzamendi
[specialist in Spanish law]
Professor Doctor in legal sciences, Doctor honoris causa mult. Obtained Law Degree at the Law Faculty of University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián (Spain) in 1977, High Diplom in Criminology in Institute of Criminology at University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) in 1979 and Doctor degree in Law at UPV-EHU in 1981. Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the Basque Institute of Criminology (IVAC-KREI) at University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian (Spain). Honorary President of the International Association of Penal Law. In 2009 obtained Euskadi Prize of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities. For further reference, see www.ehu.es/joseluis.delacuesta
Anna Demenko
[research Coordinator]
PhD in legal science, graduated from the Law Faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and the Law Faculty of Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität in Bonn (Germany). She is an assistant professor at the Chair of Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), where she lectures criminal law and European criminal law. Member of the European Criminal Bar Association. She has an individual law practice. In her research she concentrates on the relation between criminal law and fundamental rights as well as on transnational criminal law.
Michał Gałęski
[research coordinator]
Ph.D. in legal science, assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland), attorney at law representing clients in all types of “white-collar crime” cases. Main areas of his legal interest are theoretical and dogmatic matters of illegality and objective imputation. (Co)author of articles and monographies in the field of criminal law, e.g. of the Commentary to Polish Penal Code.
Tomáš Gřivna
[specialist in Czech law]
prof. JUDr. Ph.D., Head of Criminal Law Department of the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), in 2021 appointed as professor of the criminal law, criminology and criminalistic by the President of the Czech Republic. He practices criminal law as attorney and partner of law office. He is also involved in legislative work, from 2011 as Chairman of the Criminal Law Commission of the Legislative Council of the Government of Czech Republic.
Momiana Guneva
[specialist in Bulgarian law]
Professor and Ph.D. in legal studies, specialized in penal and penitentiary law at the most prestigious institutes in Europe. Her scientific works focus on recently developed crimes, such as organized economic crime and internet crime. Member of the Pardon Commission in the administration of the President of the Bulgarian Republic. Expert consultant at Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court and to General Attorney.
Katarzyna Holik
[junior Researcher]
PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). Attorney-at-law’s Trainee at Regional Bar Association in Poznań (Poland). Her scientific interests include substantive and procedural criminal law, with particular reference to the issues related to legality of the application of criminal law instruments and its limitations in the light of individual rights and freedoms.
Miklós Hollán
[specialist in Hungarian law]
associate professor at the National University of Public Service and senior research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest [Hungary]. He graduated in law from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in 1999, and obtained his Phd degree at the University of Szeged in 2007 (with his dissertation on confiscation). Main fields of his research cover trafficking in human beings, criminalization of corruption and constitutional aspects of criminal law.
Piotr Karlik
[research coordinator]
assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań (Poland). Author of several dozen publications on widely understood criminal law, including academic textbooks. Lecturer in the postgraduate study ‘Manager of the whistleblowing and whistleblowing system’ at the University of Economics in Poznań; lecturer at Collegium Polonicum in Słubice. Professionally active attorney at law, member of the disciplinary court of the Wielkopolska Bar Association.
Michael Kilchling
[specialist in German law]
PhD in legal science, doctor honoris causa of the University of Pécs (Hungary), senior researcher at the Department of Public Law of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg and lecturer at the University of Freiburg (Germany). Member of several international expert groups e.g. by EU Commission, DG Justice and Home Affairs, Council of Europe and International Monetary Fund in Washington. Further information available at www.csl.mpg.de/en/people/michael-kilchling/
Magdalena Kowalewska-Łukuć
[research Coordinator]
PhD in legal science, assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Szczecin (Poland). At the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań she obtained in 2011 master’s degree in psychology and in law, in 2014 – PhD. in legal science (doctoral thesis: ‘Possible intention in the light of psychology’). She is (co-)author of three monographs, co-author of textbook on penal law and author of many articles and chapters in scientific monographs on criminal law. Her research interests focus primarily on substantive criminal law with particular emphasis on grounds of criminal liability.
Raimo (O. K.) Lahti
[specialist in Finish law]
(b. 1946) Professor (emeritus since 2014) of Criminal Law at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He received his LL.M. (1966), LL.Lic. (1967), M.Soc.Sc. (1971) and LL.D. (1974) from the University of Helsinki. Ordinary Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Turku in 1976-79 and at the University of Helsinki in 1979-2014. He was elected as ad litem Judge to the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), for 2005-09. Member of the Task Force on the Finnish Criminal Code Reform in 1980-99. For further reference, see https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/raimo-lahti.
Anna Maria Maugeri
[specialist in Italian law]
full Professor of Criminal Law, Department “Giurisprudenza”, University of Catania, Italy and coordinator of the PhD School on “Law” in the same Department. Member of many research and expert groups of international character, member of several Study Commissions by the Italian Ministry of Justice. Member of the Scientific Committee of ISISC (Int. Inst. of Higher Studies in Crim. Sciences) and founding member of the “Centre for European Criminal Law” (Catania). Her research interests focus mainly on sanction systems and organized crime. Author of numerous scientific publications in the field of Italian, European and international law.
Dan Moroşan
[specialist in Romanian law]
Ph. D candidate and tutor in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania). His research is focused on European and national criminal law, (especially on extended confiscation). He graduated LLM programme in International and European Law from Maastricht University and postgraduate studies at McGill University and the University of British Columbia. Author of articles in high graded law reviews, participant at several national and international conferences. He momentarily works for the Romanian Government on EU funds management and countering financial crimes.
Daniel Nitu
[specialist in Romanian law]
associate professor in European Criminal Law and Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). Chair of the Criminal Law Department and a member of Cluj Bar, involved in drafting new Criminal legislation by the Ministry of Justice. Member of examination commissions for promotion of judges at the Criminal Division of Romanian Supreme Court and for admission in the magistrate profession. He teaches in the National Institute of Magistracy and National Institute for the Training of Lawyers. He is a Contact Point for Romania, within ECLAN and a member of several international research projects.
Anna Pingen
[specialist in French law]
Ph.D. in legal studies, studied law at the University of Toulouse (France). In 2021 she obtained her Doctor of Law degree (Dr. iur.) from the Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg (Germany), under the supervision of Professor Ulrich Sieber. She is currently working as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg and as researcher in the project “Seeing Antisemitism Through Law: High Promises or Indeterminacies?” at the Chair for Public Law and International Law at the University in Giessen. Her research areas are criminal law theory, comparative law, incitement and hate speech.
Anna Sakellaraki
[specialist in Greek law]
graduated legal studies at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens (Greece) and postgraduate legal studies „German and European Law and Legal Practice“ at the Humboldt University of Berlin (with Master of Laws (LL.M.) title). Qualified lawyer and member of the Athens Bar Association and beneficent of the International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) of the German Parliament. She is currently doctoral candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martin Heger and research fellow at the DFG-Graduate College „Dynamic Integration” (DynamInt). Her research project is focusing on the confiscation in Europe within a comparative perspective. Her main research interests cover: European criminal law, confiscation, white-collar crime, comparative criminal law, criminal law theory
Lucija Sokanović
[specialist in Croatian law]
assistant professor at the Chair for Criminal Law, University of Split (Croatia) Judicial advisor at Commercial Court in Split. She lecturers criminal law, commercial criminal law, sport criminal law and international criminal law, and publishes articles in those fields as (co-)author. She was educated at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Freie Universität in Berlin, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa and The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science in Amsterdam.
Kathrin Stiebellehner
[specialist in Austrian law]
Mmag. Dr. in legal science, researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Criminal Law of Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria). Her research interests, publications and talks include criminal law, criminal procedure and criminology. She has specialized particularly in issues relating to criminal sanctions, in particular asset-related ones and to reaction to acts of mentally ill offenders, as well as in juvenile delinquency – she is a co-founder of a non-profit organization called “Verein jung”, an interdisciplinary platform for youth law and welfare.
André Klip
[specialist in Dutch law]
Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and the Transnational Aspects of Criminal Law at Maastricht University. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a judge at the ‘s-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal (criminal division) in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Board of Directors as well as of the Scientific Committee of the International Association of Penal Law. He is founder and editor of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (70 volumes since 1999) and author of European Criminal Law. An integrative Approach (Intersentia Cambridge, 4th edition 2021).
Jacek Stanisławski
[Junior Researcher]
Fourth year law student of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Łódź, President of the Students’ Research Circle of Criminal Law, active participant in several national scientific conferences. Mainly interested in substantive criminal law with a particular focus on issues related to self-defence as well as penal populism.
Jan Minksztym
[Junior Researcher]
Student of the fourth year of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Society – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, participant of the master’s seminar in constitutional law. His research interests revolve around the international protection of human rights with a particular focus on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
Sandra Oliveira e Silva
[specialist in Portuguese law]
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto. PhD in Law. Founding member of the SPC – Portuguese Society of Criminology, Sub coordinator and researcher at the CIJ – Centre for Legal Research. Fellow of the AIDP – International Association of Penal Law (since 2019) and member of the European Criminal Bar Association (since 2019). Author of articles and monographies in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure. Participant in international research projects and expert groups. Her major research fields are European criminal law and criminal procedure, criminal evidence and defence rights.
Personal page CIJ: https://cije.up.pt/en/client/skins/geral.php?id=451
Gaetano Ancona
[Ph.D. student, supporting researcher]
Graduate in law from the University of Trento (Italy) and post-graduate in EU criminal law from the University of Luxembourg. PhD candidate in EU criminal law at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) under the supervision of Prof. André Klip. Project manager of the EU-funded project Mutual Recognition 2.0, which intends to analyze the possible obstacles to a coherent and integrative application of the mutual recognition instruments for prosecution and enforcement of proceedings and the causes of these obstacles. His main research interests cover European criminal law, asset recovery, comparative criminal law and procedure.