Maria Gahn, LL.M.

Member of the scientific staff (and project Digital Forensics)
Building C3 1, Room 1.09
Tel.: +49 681 302-4951
maria.gahn@uni-saarland.de
Publications and conferences
Publications:
- Extended reality – Crime scene reconstruction, virtual laboratory and use in court, in: Bouadi/Gahn, AI-Based Crime Investigation: a Game Changer to Privacy? (will be published in 2026).
- Gathering of electronic evidence in punitive administrative proceedings in Germany, in: Tosza, Stanislaw/Lannier, Salomé, Gathering electronic evidence from online services providers in administrative punitive proceedings, 2025 – together with Philipp Blume, Dominik Brodowski, Julia Leo Reichmann und Christoph Zoller.
- Private accessory prosecutors and their influence on German criminal proceeding, in: Megumi Ochi/Renata Barbosa/Luyuan Bai. Victim-Centered Criminal Justice, RIDP-libri 2024.
- Abuse Process including (Cyber) Grooming and Online Sexual Solicitation, in: Gert Vermeulen/Nina Peršak/Stéphanie De Coensel (eds.), Researching the boundaries of sexual integrity, gender violence and image-based abuse, RIDP 95.2 (2024), p. 299–322, online: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01J70W6DT750ZNCAVDD9BDRD61.
- Ransomware. Klausur – together with Dominik Brodowski –, in: AL 2021, p. 224–230.
- Gerangel um den Impfstoff. Strafrechts-Examensklausur zum Betrugs- und Urkundenstrafrecht – together with Dominik Brodowski –, in: Jura 2022, p. 768–767.
Conferences:
- AI-based crime investigations and privacy: a general perspective (Part I) 2025 Saarbrücken: Use of virtual reality at the crime scene and in court: challenges of data protection; further information on the conference series
- Current challenges in international and european procedural law, (University of Salamanca) 2024: Presentation “Reconstruction of Crime Scenes with Virtual Reality”
- Exzellenzlabor Europa 2023, "The European Public Prosecutor‘s Office as Motor for Transformation in the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice“: keynote speech on data protection issues in cooperation between private individuals and the European Public Prosecutor's Office ("Datenschutzrechtlichen Schwierigkeiten bei der Zusammenarbeit Privater mit der Europäischen Staatsanwaltschaft")
- 11th AIDP Young Penalists Symposium,Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto) 2023: Presentation"Private accessory prosecutors and their influence on German criminal proceedings"
- Conference on interfaces, transitions, and boundaries between criminal law and police law ("Schnittstellen, Übergänge und Grenzen zwischen Strafrecht und Polizeirecht"), Saarland University 2023 (organisation and participation)
- 17th International Symposium of the World Society of Victimology 2022: presentation “Cyber grooming. Types of offenders and victims – and the grooming process” as well as moderation of the penal
- FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, workshop “Need to reform the legal framework in IT security research and responsible disclosure policies” (participation)
Teaching
- Summer 2024: EKK with personal exam coaching (together with Philipp Blume, Julia Reichmann and Christoph Zoller)
- Winter 2023/24: Kolloquium zum Strafrecht AT
- Summer 2023: Ferien-EKK 22.07.23
- Winter 2022/23: Tutorium Strafrecht III
- Summer 2022: Tutorium Strafrecht AT II
- Summer 2021: Ferien-EKK (together with Christina Ost)
- Winter 2021/22: AG Strafrecht AT I
- Winter 2021/22: Kolloquium zum Strafrecht AT
- Winter 2020/21: Ferien-EKK
- Winter 2020/21: AG Strafrecht AT I