Prof. Krisztina Karsai

University of Szeged

Krisztina Karsai is full professor in criminal law at the University of Szeged and is specialized in European and international criminal law, and criminal policy.

Since 2000, she has been a member of the expert group of the Ministry of Justice for combating drug problems and, since 2005, for crime prevention. She is active in international networks of criminal sciences; she prepared more times the Hungarian reports for the world congresses of the AIDP, of IFCCLGE, of ISSD, of EAK+.

She is guest professor of three universities (University of Istanbul, University of Oradea, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law), and she gives many guest lectures in German and Spanish universities. She delivered reports as contracted expert of European projects and is since 2013 independent expert of the Commission (DG Justice; Fields of justice, freedom and security; criminal justice, prevent and combat criminality). Krisztina Karsai is author of many books and articles on Hungarian and European criminal law and policy; she is editor and co-author of the Commentary on the Hungarian Criminal Code of 2012.She has worked many years as a member of the expert group of the Ministry of Justice for combating drug problems and for crime prevention. She has been granted with Jean Monnet Chair (2016-2019), the title of her project: Legal Innovation for Citizens, the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.