Criminal Law, Digital Transformation, and IT Security

The digital transformation - and the increasing use of digital technology, including the so-called 'artificial intelligence' - uncovers a number of fundamental questions of criminal law and criminal justice, including 'cybercrime', 'digital evidence', and 'IT security'. These need to be addressed in an interdisciplinary dialogue - in particular with IT security researchers -, fully taking the European, international and constitutional frameworks into account. Based on such an understanding, the digital transformation is an opportunity for criminal justice, and the understanding of criminal law.

    • IMF 2024

      13th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics

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    • Botnet-related Crime

      »Legally compliant detection, investigation and prosecution of botnet-related crime« (DFG grant, AOBJ 676869, with Prof. Dr.-ing. Christoph Sorge)

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    • Digital Forensics

      Part-time study program »Digital Forensics« – modules on criminal law

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    • TITAN

      Ladenburg Research Network »Technological Intelligence for the Transformation, Automation, and User-Orientation of the Judicial System (TITAN)«

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    • »Artificial intelligence« in criminal proceedings

      including a project to strengthen intelligent automated mass data processing in criminal investigations (ZAC-AIRA - »AI-enabled Rapid Assessment«; project management: ZAC NRW) and a project on the use of ‘AI’ as evidence in criminal proceedings in accordance with the rule of law (CRIM_AI)

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Publications

Selection of non-German Publications

  • Brodowski/Szabó, Transnational Virtual Criminal Trials in the European Union. Reflections on Occasion of Joined Cases C-255/23 (AVVA and Others) and C-285/23 (Linte) at the CJEU, eucrim 3/2024, preprint, DOI: 10.30709/eucrim-2024-017
  • Brodowski, Data Theft, in: Pedro Caeiro/Sabine Gless/Valsamis Mitsilegas/Miguel João Costa/Janneke De Snaijer/Georgia Theodorakakou (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2024, ISBN: 9781789902983, DOI: 10.4337/9781789902990.data.theft
  • Sprenger/Brodowski, ‘Predictive policing’, ‘Predictive Justice’, and the use of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in the Administration of Criminal Justice in Germany, eRIDP A-02/2023, online: https://www.penal.org/sites/default/files/files/A-02-23.pdf
    Extract and partial addition: Predictive policing in Germany, – together with Johanna Sprenger –, RIDP 94.2 (2023), S. 117–148
  • Brodowski, The Role of Criminal Law in Regulating Cybercrime and IT Security, in: Georg Borges / Christoph Sorge (eds.), Law and Technology in a Global Digital Society. Autonomous Systems, Big Data, IT Security and Legal Tech, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022, S. 233–255, ISBN: 978-3-030-90512-5, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90513-2_12
  • Brodowski, Cibercrimen y protección de la seguridad informática, translated by María Belén Linares, Buenos Aires: Ad Hoc, 2021, ISBN: 978-987-745-191-7
  • Brodowski, The Emerging History of Transnational Criminal Law Relating to Cybercrime, in: Neil Boister / Sabine Gless / Florian Jeßberger (eds.), Histories of Transnational Criminal Law, Oxford: OUP, 2021, S. 236–248, ISBN: 978-0-19-284570-2, DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192845702.003.0018

Lectures

Selection of non-German Lectures

  • Brodowski, Lecture on »'Artificial Intelligence' in European institutions of criminal justice« at the Conference »Artificial Decision-Making. Autonomy – Responsibility – Control« of WWU Münster (03.–05.02.2022)