Prof. Dr. Katalin Ligeti
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Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance | ||||||
Department | Department of Law | ||||||
Postal Address |
Weicker Building, Université du Luxembourg 4, rue Alphonse Weicker L-2721 Luxembourg |
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Campus Office | C213 | ||||||
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Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 6887 | ||||||
Profile
Katalin Ligeti, Professor of European and International Criminal Law, was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance in September 2017. She also acts as co-leader of the ICT/Criminal Law Research Group within the University of Luxembourg’s Research Unit in Law (RUL) and coordinator of the Doctoral Training Unit on Enforcement in Multi-Level Regulatory Systems (DTU REMS). She holds an LL.M. equivalent from the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (Hungary), an LL.M. from the University of Bristol (UK) and a doctorate in law from the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Her research focuses primarily on police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters, EU criminal law, comparative criminal procedure and economic and financial criminal law. Professor Ligeti has published three monographs and over 100 articles and chapters in academic volumes in English, German, French and Hungarian. Her most recent books are ‘White Collar Crime. A Comparative Perspective’ (with Stanislaw Tosza, Hart, 2018), ‘Challenges in the Field of Economic and Financial Crime in Europe and the US’ (with Vanessa Franssen, Hart, 2017) and ‘Chasing Criminal Money’ (with Michele Simonato, Hart, 2017).
- External appointments include:
- Special Advisor of Commissioner Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality (April 2017 to April 2018),
- European Commission’s Expert Group on Criminal Policy (appointed in 2015),
- Advisor of national and European legislators and policy makers as well as national and international courts (Prof. Ligeti inter alia provided evidence to the House of Lords).
- Editorship:
- Founding co-Series Editor of Hart Studies in European Criminal Law,
- Founding co-Series Editor of Giustizia penale europea from Wolters Kluwer – Cedam,
- Member of the editorial board of the New Journal of European Criminal Law (NJECL),
- Member of the editorial board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law’s online journal Eucrim.
Last updated on: Monday, 09 July 2018
Between 2010 and 2017 Prof. Ligeti was the Programme Director of the Master in European Economic and Financial Criminal Law, teaching European criminal law, corporate criminal law, compliance and special investigative techniques, stepping down from the post shortly after becoming Dean.
She continues to teach European and international criminal law as well as economic and financial criminal law. In addition, she supervises several doctoral candidates at the Research Unit in Law.
Last updated on: 09 Jul 2018
Professor Ligeti’s research is primarily focused on police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters, comparative criminal procedure and international criminal law.
She has published widely on criminal policy, victim protection, juvenile justice, financial crime, organised crime, corruption, terrorism, internal security and procedural safeguards.
Professor Ligeti plays a leading role in several transnational research networks:
• Vice President in Charge of Scientific Coordination of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP),
• Co-coordinator of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN),
• ECLAN contact point for Hungary,
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights,
• Member of the Board of Directors of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation.
Research grants:
• Over the past 15 years, Professor Ligeti has obtained several prestigious research grants including grants from the European Commission, the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, the Humboldt Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation,
• Between 2010 and 2016 she obtained research grants exceeding, in total, four million Euros.
Recent research projects:
• Model Rules for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office,
• Global challenges in economic and financial criminal law in the EU and the US,
• Prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal law,
• Asset recovery in the EU,
• Liability of company directors in a comparative EU criminal justice context
Last updated on: 26 Jul 2017

2021

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in Mitsilegas, Valsamis; Vavoula, Niovi (Eds.) Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age: European, Transatlantic and Global Perspectives (2021)

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in Caianiello, Michele; Camon, Albert (Eds.) Digital Forensic Evidence: Towards Common European Standards in Antifraud Administrative and Criminal Investigations (2021)
2020

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Book published by Wolters Kluwer - CEDAM (2020)

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in Ligeti, Katalin; Antunes, Maria João; Giuffrida, Fabio (Eds.) The European Public Prosecutor’s Office at Launch. Adapting National Systems, Transforming EU Criminal Law (2020)

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in Revue Pénale Luxembourgeoise (2020), (5), 2-22
2019

in Brown, Darryl; Iontcheva Turner, Jenia; Weisser, Bettina (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (2019)

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in Roksandić Vidlička, Sunčana; Engelhart, Marc (Eds.) Dealing with Terrorism. Empirical and Normative Challenges of Fighting the Islamic State (2019)

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Book published by Wolters Kluwer - CEDAM (2019)

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in Van Kempen, Piet Hein (Ed.) Overuse in the Criminal Justice System: On Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment (2019)
2018

Book published by Hart Publishing (2018)

in Ligeti, Katalin; Robinson, Gavin; ELI (European Law Institute) (Eds.) Preventing and Resolving Conflicts of Jurisdiction in EU Criminal Law (2018)

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E-print/Working paper (2018)

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in Vervaele, John; Simonato, Michele; Luchtman, Michiel (Eds.) Exchange of information with EU and national enforcement authorities. Improving OLAF legislative framework through a comparison with other EU authorities (ECN/ESMA/ECB) (2018)

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in Kert, Robert; Lehner, Andrea (Eds.) Vielfahlt des Strafrechts im internationalen Kontext: Festschrift für Frank Höpfel zum 65. Geburtstag (2018)

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Book published by Oxford University Press (2018)

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in Ligeti, Katalin; Tosza, Stanislaw (Eds.) White Collar Crime. A Comparative Perspective (2018)
2017

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in Ligeti, Katalin; Franssen, Vanessa (Eds.) Challenges in the Field of Economic and Financial Crime in Europe and the US (2017)

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Book published by Hart Publishing (2017)

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in Carrera, Sergio; Mitsilegas, Valsamis (Eds.) Constitutionalising the Security Union: Effectiveness, rule of law and rights in countering terrorism and crime (2017)

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in Criminology in Europe (2017), 16(2), 11-14

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in Luchtman, Michiel; Vervaele, John (Eds.) Investigatory powers and procedural safeguards: Improving OLAF’s legislative framework through a comparison with other EU law enforcement authorities (ECN/ESMA/ECB) (2017)

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Book published by Hart Publishing (2017)

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in Ligeti, Katalin; Simonato, Michele (Eds.) Chasing Criminal Money. Challenges and Perspectives on Asset Recovery in the EU (2017)
2016

in Mitsilegas, Valsamis; Bergström, Maria; Konstadinides, Theodore (Eds.) Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law (2016)

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in Revue luxembourgeoise de bancassurfinance (2016), (2), 52

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in New Journal of European Criminal Law (2016), 7(2), 175

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in Durdevic, Zlata; Ivicevic Karas, Elizabeta (Eds.) European Criminal Procedure Law in Service of Protection of European Union Financial Interests: State of Play and Challeges (2016)

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in Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal (2016)
2015

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in Giudicelli-Delage, Geneviève; Manacorda, Stefano; Tricot, Juliette (Eds.) Le Côntrole Judiciarie du Parquet Européen. Necessité, Modèles, Enjeux. (2015)

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in Ambos, Kai; König, Stefan; Rackow, Peter (Eds.) Rechtshilferecht in Strafsachen (2015)

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in Erkelens, Leendert; Meij, Arjen; Pawlik, Marta (Eds.) The European Public Prosecutor's Office. An Extended Arm or a Two-Headed Dragon? (2015)
2014

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in Galli, Francesca; Weyembergh, Anne (Eds.) Do labels still matter? Blurring boundaries between administrative and criminal law. The influence of the EU (2014)
2013

Book published by Hart Publishing (2013)

in Approximation of Substantive Criminal Law in the EU: The Way Forward (2013)

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in New Journal of European Criminal Law (2013), 4(1-2), 7
2011

in European Criminal Law Review (2011), (2), 123-148

in Klip, Andre; Sluiter, Göran (Eds.) Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (2011)

in Klip, A.; Sluiter, G. (Eds.) Annotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals (2011)
2010

Book published by Éditions érès (2010)

in Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft (2010), 4
2009

in Mathe, G. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 5th European Jurists Forum (2009)
2008

in Vernimmen, Gisèle; Surano, Laura (Eds.) The future of mutual recognition (2008)

in Xanthaki, Helen; Stefanou, Constantin (Eds.) European Criminal Record (2008)

in Klip, A.; Sluiter, G. (Eds.) Annotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals (2008)

in Weyemberg, A.; Santamaria, V. (Eds.) The evaluation of European criminal law – The example of the Framework Decision on combating trafficking in human beings (2008)

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in Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal (2008)
2007
2006

in Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal (2006)

in Gönczöl, K.; Korinek, L.; Lévay, M. (Eds.) Kriminológia – Szakkriminológia (2006)

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in Nagy, F. (Ed.) Festschrift für Mihály Vida (2006)
2005

Book published by Duncker & Humblot (2005)

in Vermeulen, G. (Ed.) Missing and sexually exploited children in the enlarged EU – Epidemiological Data in the New Member States (2005)
2003

in Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal (2003)
2002

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in Acta Juridica Hungarica (2002)
2000

in Acta Juridica Hungarica (2000)