Prof Stanislaw TOSZA

Stanislaw Tosza is Full Professor in Compliance and Law Enforcement. He is also the Director of the Bachelor in Law programme. He teaches and researches comparative and European criminal law, white-collar crime, compliance law and cyberlaw.

Before joining the University of Luxembourg, Stanislaw was assistant professor at the Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University. As visiting researcher he spent also time at Georgetown University Law Center, D.C. (2019), Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University (2017) and Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg i.B. (2008-2010). He defended cum laude his PhD thesis on criminal liability of managers for excessive risk-taking at Utrecht University and at the University of Luxembourg in 2016.

He has extensive experience in research on EU criminal law and criminal investigation, which includes numerous articles and participation and leading projects in such areas as the rules of criminal procedure for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, cooperation in criminal matters in the EU, gathering and use of electronic evidence for criminal investigations at EU and national level, the EU anti-money laundering reform, enforcement of international sanctions (restrictive measures), regulation of the metaverse and the role of private actors in enforcement.

Stanislaw published five books: a monography “Criminal Liability of Managers in Europe. Punishing Excessive Risk White Collar Crime” (Hart 2018), and four collective volumes: “White collar crime. A Comparative Perspective” (Hart 2018), “Combatting illicit trade in tobacco products” (Springer 2022), “Gathering electronic evidence from online services providers in administrative punitive proceedings” (University of Luxembourg 2025) and “The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations” (Cambridge University Press 2025).

Since 2019 he has been the Secretary General of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP).