Sabine 
GLESS

 
University of Basel 
Visiting Scholar

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In Residence

16 January 2023 to 8 February 2023

Sabine Gless is a Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings at the University of Basel (Switzerland), having joined in 2005. From 1997 to 2005 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg/Br (Germany). Professor Gless earned a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (Germany) and completed her habilitation at the University of Münster (Germany), examining principles for evidence transfer across different criminal justice systems. Currently she is serving as a member of the funding commissions of the German and Swiss National Science Foundations as well as the Evaluation Senate Committee of the Leibniz Association.

Her research and writing encompasses various fields of criminal law and criminal procedure law as well as international criminal law. In particular, she is interested in using automated-decision making in criminal justice and the evolution of general principles for attributing responsibility in human-robot interaction that can be applied cross-borders. Recently her work and publications has focused mainly on accountability for accidents and driving automations as well as using cars as a sort of witness against human drivers.