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Professor Saskia Hufnagel, LLB (University of Trier), LLM, PhD (Australian National University)

Saskia

Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Sydney Law School

Profile

Saskia Hufnagel is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School and Co-Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology. Her research concerns global law enforcement cooperation, transnational and comparative criminal justice and art crime. She lectures on the Art, Business and Law LLM (CCLS). Her particular interests are international and regional legal patterns of cross-border policing as well as the detection, investigation and prosecution of art crimes in the UK, Germany and Australia. Saskia is a qualified German legal professional and accredited specialist in criminal law.

From 2013-2023 Saskia worked at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, where she taught Criminal Law, led the Criminal Justice LLM and was Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Centre (CJC). Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University, Australia, and a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Leeds. During the completion of her PhD she taught at the ANU College of Law and between 2009 and 2011 she held a permanent teaching position at the University of Canberra.

Research

Saskia currently researches international cooperation in criminal matters and in particular the use of video-conferencing in cross-border criminal procedures. She also works in the fields of art law and crypto (NFT) regulation, in particular with a view to money laundering and financial crime more generally.

Publications

2024

  • Fabiani, M., Burmon, K., Hufnagel, S. (2024). Cultural Property Crime and the Law: Legal Approaches to Protection, Repatriation, and Countering Illicit Trade. London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis).

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Chappell, D., Hufnagel, S. (2019). Art Crime: Exposing a Panoply of Theft, Fraud and Plunder. In Saskia Hufnagel, Duncan Chappell (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, (pp. 3-32). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hufnagel, S. (2019). Article 48: Law enforcement cooperation. In Cecily Rose, Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr (Eds.), The United Nations Convention Against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hufnagel, S. (2019). Case Study 1: Beltracchi and the History of Art Fraud in Germany. In Saskia Hufnagel, Duncan Chappell (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, (pp. 321-342). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2018

  • Hufnagel, S. (2018). A Brief History of Art, Fraud and the Framing of Law. Criminal Law Journal, 42(2), 122-124.
  • Hufnagel, S. (2018). A Comparative Legal History of International Policing. In Monica den Boer (Eds.), Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective, (pp. 16-44). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  • den Boer, M., Hufnagel, S. (2018). Policing and Society: A Legal Perspective on Gender in Police Organisations. In Monica den Boer (Eds.), Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective, (pp. 346-362). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

2017

2016

  • Hufnagel, S. (2016). "Third Party" Status in EU Policing and Security - Comparing the Position of Norway with the UK before and after the "Brexit". Nordic Journal of Policing Studies, 3(2), 165-180.
  • Hufnagel, S. (2016). EU Integrated and Re-Integrated Security: The Position of the UK after the Opt-Out - or Brexit. European Journal of Policing Studies, 4(1), 63-86.
  • Hufnagel, S. (2016). Organised Crime. In Valsamis Mitsilegas, Maria Bergström, Theodore Konstadinides (Eds.), Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law, (pp. 355-375). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

2015

  • Crosby, S., Galli, F., Hufnagel, S. (2015). Special Issue on Restrictive Measures (Sanctions) Against Individuals. New Journal of European Criminal Law, 6(3).
  • Moiseienko, A., Hufnagel, S. (2015). Targeted Sanctions, Crimes and State Sovereignty. New Journal of European Criminal Law, 6(3), 351-371.
  • Chappell, D., Hufnagel, S. (2015). The Gurlitt Case: German and International Responses to Ownership Rights in Looting Cases. In Joris D. Kila, Marc Balcells (Eds.), Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis of Contemporary Perspectives and Trends, (pp. 221-233). Leiden: Brill.

2014

  • Chappell, D., Hufnagel, S. (2014). Case Studies on Art Fraud: European and Antipodean Perspectives. In Not known (Eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime: Australasian, European and North American Perspectives, (pp. 57-77). TBC.
  • Chappell, D., Hufnagel, S. (2014). Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime: Australasian, European and North American Perspectives. TBC.
  • Chappell, D., Hufnagel, S. (2014). Law Enforcement's Still Evolving Role in Art Crime: Some Introductory Remarks. In Not known (Eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime: Australasian, European and North American Perspectives, (pp. 1-11). TBC.

2013

  • Hufnagel, S. (2013). Policing Cooperation Across Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Law Enforcement within the EU and Australia. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

2012

2011

  • Hufnagel, S. (2011). Cross-border Police Cooperation: Traversing Domestic and International Frontiers. Criminal Law Journal, 35(6), 333-344.
  • Hufnagel, S. (2011). Jurisdiction Spotlight: Australia. Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law, 1(1), 132-150.

2010

  • Hufnagel, S. (2010). "The Fear of Insignificance": New Perspectives on Harmonising Police Cooperation in Europe and Australia. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 6(2), 165-193.

2009

  • Hufnagel, S. (2009). Harmonisation and Regional Cooperation in Cross-Border Policing: Comparing European and Australian Frameworks. National Europe Centre briefing paper series, 1(2), 1-21.

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