Johanna Fink

Doctoral Researcher

Main Focus

  • Transnational Police Cooperation
  • Privatization of Public Security
  • AI-based Surveillance and Predictive Policing
  • Sociology of Law (esp. sociological view on security)
  • Comparative public law

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2024: Doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Department of Public Law)

2018‒2023: Law Studies at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn, specializing in international economic law (First State Examination in law)

2021‒2023: Research Assistant at the Institute for Public Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Durner) of the Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University

2018‒2019: Research Assistant at the Chair for Political Theory, Philosophy and the History of Ideas (Prof. Dr. Gisela Riescher) of the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg

2015‒2020: Binational studies of Political Science and Geostrategy at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence

  • M.A. Political Science
  • Master in geostrategy, defence and international security (Master thesis on the European energy trilemma)
  • Diploma of Sciences Po (Diploma thesis: German-French comparison on the use of video surveillance in police work)
  • B.A. Political Science (Bachelor thesis on social teaching as a contribution to a secure and equitable society)
  • Scholarship of the Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Foundation (2017‒2020)

Project

Contemporary Challenges of Transnational Security Cooperation in a Franco-German Perspective

Head of project: Johanna Fink
Over the past thirty years, cooperation with foreign police forces not directly bound by national police law has become more frequent and diverse in EU member states. In addition to more traditional forms of co-operation, such as the exchange of information in the context of mutual legal assistance requests, there are… more

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