Katalin Ligeti is a full Professor of European and international criminal law at the University of Luxembourg. In April 2017, Prof. Ligeti was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg, assuming office on 1 September 2017.
Prof. Ligeti obtained her Doctor of Law at the University of Hamburg in 2004, after having completed her legal studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. She also holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Bristol (UK).
Prof. Ligeti’s research focuses primarily on police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters, EU criminal law, comparative criminal procedure, economic and financial criminal law as well as the use of information technology in criminal proceedings. Publishing three monographs, several edited volumes and over 100 articles and chapters in academic volumes in English, German, French and Hungarian, her most recent books are ‘’ (with Maria Joao Antunes and Fabio Guiffrida, Wolters Kluwer, 2020), ‘’ (with Gavin Robinson, Oxford University Press, 2018) and ‘’ (with Stanislaw Tosza, Hart, 2018). The European Public Prosecutor’s Office at Launch. Adapting National Systems, Transforming EU Criminal Law Preventing and Resolving Conflicts of Jurisdiction in EU Criminal Law White Collar Crime. A Comparative Perspective
Prof. Ligeti has participated as an expert in several impact assessment studies of the European Commission. She has been also called on for her expertise by several European Parliament committees, the OECD, the House of Lords, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), as well as the European Law Institute. In 2015 she was appointed first time as expert of the European Commission on EU criminal law policy. This appointment was reconfirmed in 2021 for the following five years. Between April 2017 and March 2018 she was special advisor of Ms. Věra Jourová, former Commissioner for Consumer Protection, Justice and Gender Equality. In 2021, she was appointed as member of the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for International and European Procedural Law.
Professor Ligeti plays a leading role in several transnational research networks:
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Vice President in Charge of Scientific Coordination of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP)
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Co-coordinator of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN)
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Member of the Board of Directors of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights
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Member of the Board of Directors of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation
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Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC)
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Member of the Jean Monet Network on Enforcement of EU law (EULEN)
