Main Focus
- Italian criminal law, criminal procedure, and prison law
- Comparative law (e.g., co-lead of the project International Max Planck Information System for Comparative Criminal Law)
- Alternative dispute resolution in criminal law
- Incest (co-lead of project and expert opinion for the German Federal Constitutional Court – BVerfG)
- Domestic and gender-based violence
- Femicide
Curriculum Vitae
Konstanze Jarvers (née Unger) was born in Heidelberg in 1964. After earning her Abitur in 1983, she studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg. She completed her legal clerkship (Referendariat) at the regional court in Freiburg while also working as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. The elective segment of her legal training took her to a law firm in Rome.
After passing her second state examination in law, Konstanze Jarvers worked in the legal department of a private bank in Freiburg from 1995 to 1998. In 1999, she became head of the section “Italy and Greece” at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. From 2004 to 2007, she completed her dissertation on widespread and petty crime as dealt with by Italian justices of the peace (Alternative Verfahrenserledigungen und Sanktionsformen im Verfahren vor dem italienischen Friedensrichter) under the supervision of Professor Ulrich Sieber. She has been heading the Expert Opinions Section of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law since 2023.
