Prof. Dr. Steinl

Prof. Leonie Steinl's research focuses on the fields of criminal law and criminal procedural law, including their international and interdisciplinary connections as well as comparative law. Her research interests include criminal law and gender, crimes against sexual autonomy, hate crime and hate speech as well as international criminal law.

English publications include:

Monograph:

Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace: A Restorative Transitional Justice Approach to Accountability for Crimes Under International Law (Asser Press /Springer 2017)

Editorships:

International Criminal Justice – A Counter-Hegemonic Project? (with Florian Jeßberger und Kalika Mehta), Asser Press/Springer 2022.

Special Issue: Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century (with Boris Burghardt), German Law Journal 22 (2021).

Contributions to Commentaries:

Article 34: Stalking, in: Sara de Vido and Micaela Frulli (eds.), Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence: A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention, Edward Elgar Publishing 2023.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Narratives on Child Soldiers in Transitional Justice Discourses, in: Chrisje Brants, Susanne Karstedt and Nandor Knust (eds.), Making a Difference: The Impact of Transitional Justice, Routledge 2024 (forthcoming).

Shortcomings of a Showpiece: Reflections on the Need for Reform of the German Code of Crimes Against International Law and Challenges for Its Application (with Aziz Epik), Journal of International Criminal Justice 2023, 1-23.

Shortcomings and Proposals for Reform of the Völkerstrafgesetzbuch, in: Florian Jeßberger, Chantal Meloni und Maria Crippa (eds.), Domesticating International Criminal Law: Reflections on the Italian and German Experiences, Routledge 2023, S. 102-109.

Hegemony and International Criminal Justice – An Introduction (with Florian Jeßbeger and Kalika Mehta), in: Florian Jeßberger, Leonie Steinl und Kalika Mehta (eds.), International Criminal Justice – A Counter-Hegemonic Project?, Asser Press/Springer 2022, S. 1-9.

Strategic Litigation in International Criminal Justice – Facilitating a View from Within (with Florian Jeßberger), Journal of International Criminal Justice 20 (2022), 1-23.

Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century (with Boris Burghardt), German Law Journal 22 (2021), 691-702.

Online Publications:

Germany before the European Court of Human Rights: Finally Accountability for the Airstrike at Kunduz (and Beyond)? (with Wenke Brückner), Opinio Juris 29.2.2020.

Of Rhetoric and Reality: The Nobel Peace Prize and Conflict-Related Sexualized Violence, Verfassungsblog, 10.12.2018.

 

Emmy Noether Project

Attacks on otherness - A criminal law study of identity-based crimes

Crimes against persons based on certain identity characteristics, such as their sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion, are not a new phenomenon. However, they are gaining increasing awareness and have also attracted heightened attention from criminal legislators in recent years. To date, the concept of hate crime has been used to characterize these crimes. Yet, this raises numerous unanswered questions from a terminological, conceptual and criminal law dogmatic perspective. The research project intends to reevaluate and model the relationships between identity, violence, hate and criminal law on the basis of an examination of these deficits. The aim of the project is to develop a theoretical concept of identity-based crimes in order to better grasp the phenomenon from a criminological and dogmatic criminal law perspective. On the basis of this concept, criminal law reform issues will be identified and corresponding proposals will be developed.