Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law

Main Research:

• Human Rights Law
• International Criminal Law

Academic Background:

Johanna Rinceanu was born in Bucarest (Romania). She moved to Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) in 1977. After her final secondary-school examinations in 1993 in Freiburg, she studied law at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg. During her studies, Johanna Rinceanu worked (1996–1998) as a research assistant at the Institute of Public Law V for Professor Dr. Friedrich Schoch at the Albert Ludwigs University. In 1998, Johanna Rinceanu finished her studies successfully with the First State Examination. In the same year, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States. In 1998 and 1999, she studied at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C., USA. After obtaining her LL.M. in international law, Johanna Rinceanu worked (1999–2000) as a consultant at The World Bank, Legal Department, Office of the Senior Vice President & Former General Counsel Dr. Ibrahim F. I. Shihata, Washington D.C. Johanna Rinceanu completed her Legal Clerkship (Referendariat, 2000–2002) at the Oberlandesgericht Zweibrücken (Germany) and successfully passed her Second State Examination in 2002. Johanna Rinceanu completed her doctorate with Professor Dr. Jörg Arnold at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a dissertation entitled International Criminal Law in Romania.

Since 2002, Johanna Rinceanu has worked as an attorney in Freiburg with a focus on human rights law, criminal law, and family law. From 2002 to 2008, she worked as a researcher and senior researcher and, since 2009, as head of the section Romania at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. Johanna Rinceanu was deputy women’s representative and deputy equal opportunity commissioner from November 2005 to November 2008. She is responsible for guest researchers of the Department of Criminal Law at the Institute. As of the winter semester 2007/2008 she is lecturer at the University of Freiburg. Besides German and Romanian, Johanna Rinceanu speaks fluent English, Italian, and French.

Hearing at the European Court of Human Rights:

The Georgian Labour Party v. Georgia (II) (Section 2) (no. 9103/04)

4 September 2007, 9 a.m.

Judgement, 8 July 2008, 11 a.m.

Publications (selection):

• Rinceanu, Johanna: Analiza trăsăturilor esenţiale ale infracţiunii în legea penală română. In: Revista de Drept Penal, 2010, Issue⁄Volume 1, p. 14 - 27.
• Rinceanu, Johanna / Attilio Nisco: La definizione di reato nel codice penale rumeno: caratteri essenziali e prospettive di riforma. In: Diritto penale XXI secolo, 2009, Issue⁄Volume 2/VIII.
• Rinceanu, Johanna: Auf der Suche nach einem Straftatbegriff in Rumänien. In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, 2009, Issue⁄Volume 3/121, p. 792 - 812.
• Rinceanu, Johanna: Strafprozessrechtliche Eingriffsbefugnisse und Kontrollmechanismen - Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung heimlicher Ermittlungsmaßnahmen zur Bekämpfung komplexer Kriminalität. In: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Hukuk Fakültesi, Kazanci, 2009, p. 313 - 325.
• Rinceanu, Johanna: Protezione dei diritti dell`uomo: evoluzione giuridica e istituzionale. In: L`indice penale, 2009, Issue⁄Volume 1/XII, p. 289 - 307.
• Rinceanu, Johanna: Norm- und Systementwicklung zum Schutz der Menschenrechte - Die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte feiert ihren 60. Geburtstag -. In: Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Informationsschriften - Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, 2008, Issue⁄Volume 4/21, p. 220 - 229.
• Rinceanu, Johanna: Völkerstrafrecht in Rumänien. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 284 p., 2008. In addition: Dissertation. 
• Rinceanu, Johanna / Mitarbeit an Korošec, D.: Grundlagen der Strafverfolgung völkerrechtlicher Verbrechen in Slowenien. In: Sieber, U. / Eser, A. / Kreicker, H. (ed(s).): Nationale Strafverfolgung völkerrechtlicher Verbrechen. National Prosecution of International Crimes. Bd. S 95.3: Kroatien, Österreich, Serbien und Montenegro, Slowenien. Berlin, 2004, p. 329 - 413.
• Rinceanu, Johanna / Mitarbeit an Škulic, M.: Grundlagen der Strafverfolgung völkerrechtlicher Verbrechen in Serbien und Montenegro. In: Sieber, U. / Eser, A. / Kreicker, H. (ed(s).): Nationale Strafverfolgung völkerrechtlicher Verbrechen. National Prosecution of International Crimes. Bd. S 95.3: Kroatien, Österreich, Serbien und Montenegro, Slowenien. Berlin, 2004, p. 211 - 237.
• Rinceanu, Johanna / Mitarbeit an Novoselec, P.: Grundlagen der Strafverfolgung völkerrechtlicher Verbrechen in Kroatien. In: Sieber, U. / Eser, A. / Kreicker, H. (ed(s).): Nationale Strafverfolgung völkerrechtlicher Verbrechen. National Prosecution of International Crimes. Bd. S 95.3: Kroatien, Österreich, Serbien und Montenegro, Slowenien. Berlin, 2004, p. 19 - 83.
• Rinceanu, Johanna: Enforcement Mechanisms in International Environmental Law: Quo Vadunt? In: Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (JELL), 2000, Issue⁄Volume 15, p. 147 - 177.

Lectures:

• "Das internationale System des Menschenrechtsschutzes" (24.6.2009)
• "Die Strafrechtsentwicklung in Rumänien, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Prävention und Strafverfolgung von komplexer Kriminalität" (22.6.2009)
• "Strafbarkeit juristischer Personen in Rumänien" (22.6.2009)

University of Pécs. Pécs/Hungary, 22.-25.6.2009

International scientific conference on "Strafrechtliche Erfassung komplexer Kriminalität"

"Criminal law in Germany:
Introduction and current issues on plea agreements according to the law of criminal procedure"
International scientific conference on the "Limits of criminal law, comparative criminal law, and internationalization of criminal law" at the University of Pécs. Pécs/Hungary, 16.-21.6.2007

University of Pécs

Courses:

Class WS 2009/2010

Participants of the lecture "Introduction to the German criminal procedural law for foreign students and guest researchers"

University of Freiburg

Class WS 2008/2009

Participants of the lecture "Introduction to the German criminal procedural law for foreign students and guest researchers"

University of Freiburg

Class WS 2007/2008

Participants of the lecture "Introduction to the German criminal procedural law for foreign students and guest researchers"

University of Freiburg

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