Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless

Max Planck Research Fellow
Max Planck Fellow Group Algorithmic Profiling and Automated Decision-Making in Criminal Justice

Main Focus

(Research Projects – Selection)

2021 – 2022 Economic and Legal Challenges in the Advent of Smart Products
2020 – 2024 (Ro)Bot-Human Interaction – A Digital Shift in the Administration of Criminal Justice?
Substantive Law Procedure & Verdicts in Ambient Intelligent Environments
2019 – 2020 Open Data and Legal Strings – Mapping the Ground for Public Funding Research
2017 – 2020 Legal Challenges in Big Data. Allocating benefits. Averting risks.
2017 Prosecuting Corporations for international Crime – The Jurisdictional Issues/AIDP Panel 4,
XX World Congress, AIDP (International Association of Penal Law)
2017 Intelligent Agents – International Perspectives on New Challenges for Traditional Concepts of
Criminal, Civil and Data Protection Law
2015 – 2017 Securing a fair trial through excluding evidence? A comparative perspective
2012 – 2015 General Principles of Transnational Criminal Law


Curriculum Vitae

2005 – present Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings at the University of Basel
2016 – 2024 Review Board member, German Research Foundation
2016 – 2022 Research Council member, Swiss National Science Fund & Ambizione Panel
2004 –2005 Research group leader for “Europe” at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg i. Br. (special program for the promotion of outstanding female academics)
2001 – 2004 Lise Meitner scholarship, “habilitation program” from North Rhein-Westphalia 
1998 – 2001 Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg i. Br., for the subject areas Europe and Switzerland

Research Stays and Awards

01 – 06/2019 Global Hauser Scholar, Faculty of Law, New York University, U.S.A.
09/2019 Visiting Professor, FGV Escola de Direito de São Paulo, Brazil
03 – 04/2014 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law, National University, Singapore
05 – 07/2014 Visiting Scholar, Université de Toulouse I, France
2005 Habilitation prize from the Legal Studies Society, Münster, Germany
2004 – 2005 Research group leader for “Europe” at the Max Planck Institute, Freiburg i. Br., Germany (special program for the promotion of outstanding female academics)
2001 – 2004 Lise Meitner scholarship, “habilitation program” from North Rhein-Westphalia, Germany
2004 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, U.S.A.
1992 – 1993 Visiting Scholar, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, U.S.A.

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