Gabriele Schmölzer
Gabriele Schmölzer has been Dean of the Faculty of Law since fall 2023 and was Head of the Institute at the interface of criminal law/criminal procedure law and criminology for many years. And she lives this too: in her own research and teaching, but also for the development of her institute. With an additional habilitation in information and computer science law, her research interests range from cybercrime to the criminal (procedural) legal responsibility of healthcare professionals for online counseling. She has repeatedly dealt with quantitative and qualitative questions and developments in women's crime. The StPO commentary, which she (co-)edited, as well as the international projects CRIMHUM and EIO LAPD serve to link science and practice.
This interdisciplinary focus led her to the universities of Tübingen and Regensburg at an early stage and is now practiced and further developed at her institute, particularly within the Hans Gross Center for Interdisciplinary Criminal Sciences (ZiK).
►CRIMHUM - Modernization of master's degree courses for future judges, prosecutors, investigators taking into account the European standard for human rights, is an ERASMUS+ project coordinated by Prof. Schmölzer. CRIMHUM aims to support the modernization of criminal law curricula at 5 universities in Belarus and Ukraine. The project will focus on the development of graduates' competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and provide training, methodological tools and indicators for the evaluation of learning outcomes.
►EIO LAPD - European Investigation Order - legal analysis and practical dilemmas of international cooperation is a JUST project dealing with the implementation of the European Investigation Order in criminal matters. The investigations revealed that the implementation of the directive was inadequate in many member states until recently, despite its importance in the fight against terrorism, for example. In addition, many member states have only recently fulfilled their obligation to implement the directive. The aim of EIO LAPD is therefore to gather knowledge about the practical application of the European Investigation Order, to raise awareness of its importance and to make this knowledge available to judges, investigating magistrates and prosecutors. The REWI Graz team, led by Prof. Folz and Prof. Schmölzer, is responsible for the awareness-raising and dissemination activities of the project.