The European Registry of Exonerations (EUREX)
Guest Lecture Series “Society: Status Quo and Normative Change”
- Date: Nov 3, 2026
- Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Dr. Linda Geven (Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Leiden University)
- Dr. Linda Geven is an assistant professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research area is legal psychology, an applied field that examines social and cognitive processes involved in the criminal justice system. She especially focuses on factors impacting police interrogations, judicial decision-making and deception detection accuracy. She is the co-founder of the European Registry of Exonerations, an online database of wrongful convictions in Europe. And since 2022, she works as an expert witness (under supervision) in the fields of evidence and statement validity. EurEx Reference: Schneider, T., Geven, L. M., & Schell-Leugers, J. M. (2026). European exonerations: Factors and frequencies of wrongful convictions in Europe. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 13, 100710.
- Location: Freiburg/Germany, Fürstenbergstr. 19
- Room: Seminar room (F 113) | Guests are welcome; please register
- Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
- Contact: s.wiechert@csl.mpg.de
– Abstract of the Guest Lecture TBA –
- External guests – Please register your participation via the registration form.