Charlotte Schmitt-Leonardy researches and teaches primarily in the area of criminal law, criminal procedure and criminology, with a particular interest in corporate crime and liability, the implementation of negotiated agreements in German Criminal Proceedings as well as the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights on German criminal procedure. 

Vita breve:

Law Studies at Saarland University, Germany, from 2000 to 2004 (First Judicial State Examination: 2004).

Additional Studies in labour and social law (Diplom-Jurist: 2005).

Training in Mediation (120 hours, certified by the National Association of Certified Mediators), Cologne, from 2007 to 2008.

Graduate Law Studies at Europa Institut, Saarbrücken, Germany (Study Unit European and International Protection of Human Rights) from 2008 to 2009.

PhD-Studies on the topic “Corporate Crime and corporate liability" (summa cum laude) from 2005 to 2010.

Legal Clerkship (Juristischer Vorbereitungsdienst) with a position at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (France) from 2009 to 2011 (Second Judicial State Examination 2011).

Senior Research Assistant at the Institute for Criminal Sciences and Legal Philosophy 
at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany from 2005 to 2015.

Senior Research Assistant Institute for Criminal Sciences and Legal Philosophy (Chair of Prof. Dr. Matthias Jahn) at the University of Frankfurt, Germany from 2015 to 2020.

Since 2021: Junior Professor for Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and Interdisciplinary Legal Research at University of Bielefeld. 

Since 2017 Co-Editor of the law journal wistra.