Brigitte Kenzel
Researcher
Main Research:
Brigitte Kenzel is mainly engaged in questions concerning the interface of police law and criminal procedure law. She is involved in different projects concerning data retention and associated forms of telecommunication surveillance on the one hand, as well as the automatic number plate recognition on the other hand. The doctoral thesis she is currently working on deals with the automatic number plate recognition and general problems emerging from the dual function of the German police.
Furthermore organized crime and penitentiary law belong to Brigitte Kenzel’s primary interests.
Academic Background:
Brigitte Kenzel was born in 1984 in Esslingen / Neckar, Germany. After graduating from high school in 2004, she studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Germany and Helsinki, Finland. Temporarily she was working as a student assistant at the Institute of Administrative Science at the University of Freiburg (Prof. Dr. R. Wahl). Furthermore, Brigitte Kenzel interned at a juvenile court, at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, Dallas, Texas, USA, and at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Berlin, Germany.
In spring 2008, Brigitte Kenzel completed a training program in European, international, and foreign law. She took the first part of her first state examination in summer 2008, majoring in criminal justice, and graduated from law school in July 2009. Since September 2009, Brigitte Kenzel has been working as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in the Department of Criminology.