Prof. Dr. Julia Geneuss, LL.M. (NYU)

Professor of criminal law, criminal procedure law, international and European criminal law, criminal information law and comparative law

Office hour: by appointment.

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+49 (0)421 218-66222
GW1, Room B 2101

On 3 and 4 May 2024, Prof. Geneuss takes part in the constitutional criminal law working group in Basel teil, moderating the pane on the Roel of hybrid criminal courts in the prosecution of international criminal offences.
The paper "Without a Doubt – German Federal Court Rules No Functional Immunity for Crimes Under International Law“ by Prof. Geneuss and Prof. Epik (University of Hamburg) has been published on Verfassungsblog. The paper can be downloaded here.
The paper "Ein Tatbestand des Verschwindenlassens im deutschen Strafrecht. Völkerrechtliche, straftatsystematische und kriminalpolitische Prolegomena zur Einführung von § 234b StGB-E“ by Prof. Geneuss and Prof. Jeßberger (HU Berlin) has been published in KriPoZ Heft 2/2024. The paper is available for download here.
On 22 March 2024, Prof. Geneuss holds a lecture on "Probleme eines 'digitalen Äußerungsstrafrechts'" at the University Shandong in Qingdao (China) within the framework of the Conference "Das Digitale und das Strafrecht". On 24 March 2024, Prof. Geneuss takes part in the Conference "Subjektive Zurechnung in der internationalen Strafrechtsdogmatik" at the Fudan Universität in Shanghai (China) with a commentary.
The symposium on "Twenty Years of the German Code of Crimes Against International Law", edited by Prof. Geneuss and Prof. Jeßberger (HU Berlin) has been published in Journal of International Criminal Justice 4/2023.
On 13 March 2024, Prof. Geneuss holds a guest lecture on "German Investigations of the Crimes Committed in International Conflicts" within the framework of theTraining School "Mass Atrocities and Protection of Victims: Current Conflicts and Political and Legal Responses" at IUC Dubrovnik (Croatia).
On 20 February 2024, Prof. Geneuss takes part in the 3rd Consultation of the EKD-Friedenswerkstatt "Recht und Frieden" at the Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll with an input on "Rolle und Kritik an der Internationalen Strafgerichtsbarkeit".
On 1 February 2024, Prof. Geneuss takes part in a round table at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a Chilean research group on "Vorgesetztenverantwortlichkeit und Wirtschaftskriminalität: Lehren aus dem Völkerstrafrecht?".
On 31 January 2024, Prof. Geneuss takes part as expert in the public hearing of the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag on the "Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Fortentwicklung des Völkerstrafrechts“ (BT-Drs. 20/9471).
On 31, January 2024, Prof. Geneuss holds a guest lecture at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
On 27 September 2023, Prof. Geneuss takes part in the 1st Memoria Talk of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation with an input on "The Kbyurg Case": "The Argentine Junta Regime on Trial in Germany - 20 Years After the Issuance of Arrest Warrants against Jorge Videla et al.". Further information on the online event, the programme and registration can be found here.
The paper by Christine Untch and Max Wrobel (both Universität zu Köln) on the conference entitled "Brauchen wir ein Daten(wirtschafts)völkerstrafrecht?" organised by Prof. Geneuss and Dr. Werkmeister in November 2022 has been published in the 2nd issue 2023 of Rechtswissenschaft.
On 30 October 2023, Prof. Geneuss will hold a guest lecture on current issues of international criminal law at the Universiy of Turin (Italy).
New publication: ‘Ermessensausübung im völkerstrafrechtlichen Kontext’, in Stefanie Bock und Markus Wagner (eds.), Gerechtigkeit aus der Ferne? Herausforderungen der nationalen Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen, Duncker & Humblot (2023)

Julia Geneuss is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International and European Criminal Law, Criminal Information Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law of Universität Bremen.

Her main fields of research are German, International and European criminal law, with a specific focus on the prosecution of crimes under international law on the domestic level, in particular in Germany. She also works in the area of digitalization and criminal law, in particular on the protection of informational privacy and the assessment of online communication by criminal law.

Education & Professional Experience

Since 2023: Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International and European Criminal Law, Criminal Information Law and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Universität Bremen.
2023: Habilitation, Universität Hamburg. Venia Legendi: criminal law, criminal procedure law, international criminal law and criminal information law as well as comparative law.
2021-2023: Visiting Professor in Göttingen, Frankfurt (Oder), Potsdam and Konstanz.
2020: scholarship for the habilitation, Universität Hamburg.
2019: Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
2011-2018: Akademische Rätin a.Z./Research Fellow, Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law and Modern Legal History, Faculty of Law, Universität Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Florian Jeßberger).
2013: PhD, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2010-2011: Research Assistant to Prof. Máximo Langer, Visiting Professor of Law (Domestic, Comparative and International Criminal Law and Procedure), New York Univerdsity School of Law (USA).
2010-2011: LL.M. in International Legal Studies, New York University School of Law (USA).
2007-2010: Research Fellow, Lichtenberg Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Dr. Florian Jeßberger).
2006: Second State Examination in Law, Berlin.
2004-2006: Legal Trainee (Referendariat), Kammergericht Berlin.
2004: First State Examination in Law, Freiburg.
1998-2004: studies of law in Freiburg and Aberdeen (Scotland).
1998: graduation from secondary school (Deutsche Hochschulreife), German School Alexander von Humboldt, Mexiko City (Mexico).

Research and Teaching Assignments Abroad

2019: Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel);
host: Prof. Dr. Mordechai Kremnitzer.
2018: Visiting Scholar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (Chile).
2015: Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Istanbul (Turkey).
2010-2011: master studies, New York University School of Law (USA).

Scholarships and Awards

2021: Teaching Award, Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
(for a course on criminal law on sexual offences).
2020: Scholarship for the Habilitation, Universität Hamburg.
2019: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
2014: Second Prize Deutscher Studienpreis, Körber Foundation, for the most important dissertation of the year, section humanities and cultural studies.
2014: Teaching Award, Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
(for a course on international criminal law).
2013: Law Faculty Award for the best dissertation in criminal law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2010-2011: LL.M. Scholarship Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Expert Opinions & Memberships

Co-Chair (since 2020) and Member (since 2011) of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press).

Reviews for, e.g., Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Leiden Journal of International Law, Nordic Journal of International Law, Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, Göttingen Journal of International Law, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and others.

Member of the Zukunftsfakultät, Recht im Kontext, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (since March 2016); Memoria, Argentinean-German working group on the prosecution of crimes under international law, Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation (since September 2022); Founding Member of “Junges Strafrecht e.V.”, a platform for early career researchers in criminal law in Germany, Szwitzerland and Austria (speaker 2014-2020); Association Internationale de Droit Penal (AIDP); Arbeitskreis Völkerstrafrecht.

Selected and recent publications

Völkerrechtsverbrechen und Verfolgungsermessen. § 153f StPO im System völkerrechtlicher Strafrechtspflege, Nomos (2013).
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Zweiten Preis des deutschen Studienpreises der Körber-Stiftung für die wichtigste Dissertation des Jahres, Sektion Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften (2014) und dem Promotionspreis der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2013).
F. Jeßberger & J. Geneuss (eds.), Why Punish Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities?, Theories of Punishment in International Criminal Law, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
‘§ 129a Abs. 1 Nr. 1 StGB als völkerstrafrechtliches Organisationsdelikt’, Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 133 (2021), S. 1001-1024.
‘Faire Strafverfahren vor systemisch abhängigen Gerichten? Europäischer Haftbefehl und Recht auf ein unabhängiges Gericht – Überlegungen anhand des Celmer-Urteils des EuGH’ (mit Andreas Werkmeister), Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 132 (2020), S. 102-132.
‘Der Umgang der Strafverfolgungsbehörden mit vorurteilsmotivierter Kriminalität: Überlegungen anhand der NSU-Ermittlungen’, in Anna Katharina Mangold und Mehrdad Payandeh (Hrsg.), Handbuch zum Antidiskriminierungsrecht, Mohr Siebeck, 2022, S. 1096-1130.
‘Eberhard Schmidhäusers “Furor Dogmaticus”’, in Tilman Repgen, Florian Jeßberger und Markus Kotzur (Hrsg.), Festschrift 100 Jahre Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg, Mohr Siebeck (2019), S. 191-215.

The complete list of publications can be found here.

The complete list of lectures can be found here.

Current research projects deal with

questions at the intersection of (German) international criminal law and counter-terrorism criminal law („Terrorismusvölkerstrafrecht“);
the need for international criminal law provisions dealing with widespread and systematic data violations (“Daten(wirtschafts)völkerstrafrecht”);
tthe practice of sentencing in German international criminal proceedings;
the crime of enforced disappearance.

In the winter semester 2023/2024, the following courses are offered (for further information see the course catalogue of the Faculty and StudIP):

Unirep Strafrecht 1 (Prof. Geneuss)
Unirep Strafrecht 2 (Prof. Geneuss)
Die strafrechtliche Verarbeitung von Hasskriminalität und (digitaler) Hassrede (Prof. Geneuss)
Einführung in das Wirtschaftsstrafrecht (Prof. Geneuss)
AG Einführung in die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft (Ole Sagajewski)

Secretary:

Sarah Klingenberg
GW1, Room B 2120
Telephone: +49 (0)421 218-
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Research assistants:

Ole Sagajewski

Cora Wegemund

University of Bremen
Faculty of Law
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28359 Bremen
GW1, Room B 2101
Telephone: +49 (0)421 218-66222
E-Mail: geneussprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Secretary:
Sarah Klingenberg
GW1, Room B 2120
Telephone: +49 (0)421 218-66044
Fax: +49 (0)421 218-66217
E-Mail:

Postal address:
University of Bremen
Faculty of Law
P.O. Box 330 440
D-28334 Bremen

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