Research Interests

Global law enforcement cooperation, transnational and comparative criminal justice and art crime

Additional Professional Information

Saskia Hufnagel is a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. She is a qualified German legal professional and accredited specialist in criminal law. From 2013-2023 Saskia worked at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, where she taught Criminal Law, led the LL.M. in Criminal Justice and was Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Centre (CJC). Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University, Australia, and a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Leeds. During the completion of her PhD she taught at the ANU College of Law and between 2009 and 2011 she held a permanent teaching position at the University of Canberra.

Publications

Books

"Policing Global Regions - The Legal Context of Transnational Law Enforcement Cooperation” (Routledge 2021), pp. 322 and xi – nominated for the Division of International Criminology (DIC) of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) 2022 Outstanding Book Award.

“Policing Cooperation Across Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Law Enforcement within the EU and Australia” (Ashgate, 2013), pp. 332 and xxiv.

Edited Books

“Global Perspectives on Cultural Property Crime” (M. Fabiani, K. Burman and S. Hufnagel, eds.) (Routledge, 2022), pp. 231 and xi.

“Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement: Global Perspectives on Illegal Enterprise” (S. Hufnagel and A. Moiseienko, eds.) (Routledge, 2020), pp. 233 and ix.

“Policing Transnational Crime: Law Enforcement of International Flows” (S. Hufnagel and A. Moiseienko, eds.) (Routledge, 2020), pp. 212 and x.

“Research Handbook on Transnational Crime” (V. Mitsilegas, S. Hufnagel and A. Moiseienko, eds.) (Edward Elgar, 2020), pp. 505 and viii.

“Palgrave Handbook of Art Crime” (S. Hufnagel and D. Chappell, eds.) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 909 and xxix.

“Transnational Crime – European and Chinese Perspectives” (V. Mitsilegas, S. Hufnagel, A. Moiseienko, Shi Yanan and Liu Mingxiang, eds.) (Routledge, 2018), pp. 258 and x.

“Trust in International Police and Justice Cooperation” (S. Hufnagel & C. McCartney, eds) (Hart Publishing, 2017), pp. 264 and vi.

“Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime” (D. Chappell & S. Hufnagel, eds) (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 276 and xiv.

“Emergency Law” (S. Hufnagel & K. Roach, eds) (Ashgate, 2012), pp. 547 and xix.

“Shooting to Kill: Socio-legal Perspectives on the Use of Lethal Force” (S. Bronitt, M. Gani & S. Hufnagel, eds) (Hart Publishing, 2012), pp. 324 and xvii.

“Cross-Border Law Enforcement: Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation - European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives” (S. Hufnagel, C. Harfield & S. Bronitt, eds) (Routledge, 2012), pp. 289 and xx. 

Articles

‘Non-Fungible Tokens: Art and Crime in a Virtual World’ (with Colin King) (2023) 5 Criminal Law Review forthcoming (7,285 words).

‘The Perpetual Motion Machine: Police Cooperation in the First Five Schengen States and EU Lawmaking Dynamics’ (2021) 59 Cahiers Politiestudies 119-138 (10,629 words).

‘De aanpak van kunstcriminaliteit in Europa’ (2020) Justitële Verkenningen 20(4) (3,000 words).

‘Anti-Money Laundering Regulation and the Art Market’ (with Colin King) (2020) 40(1) Legal Studies 131-150 (14,098 words).

‘A Brief History of Art, Fraud and the Framing of Law’ (2018) 42(2) Criminal Law Journal 122-124 (2, 028 words).

‘Women in International Policing: Revolutionising the “Old Boys Network”?’ (with Maira Hassan, 2018) 6(1) SALUS Journal 63-79 (5,509 words). 

‘Regulation of Cross-Border Law Enforcement: “Locks” and “Dams” to Regional and International Flows of Policing’ (2017) 18(3) Global Crime 218-236 (7,730 words).

‘“Third Party” Status in EU Policing and Security - Comparing the Position of Norway with the UK before and after the “Brexit”’ (2016) 3(2) Nordic Journal of Policing Studies 163–178 (7,653 words).

‘EU Integrated and Re-Integrated Security. The Position of the UK after the Opt-Out – or Brexit’ (2016) 4(1) European Journal of Policing Studies 63-86 (10,772 words).

‘Editorial’ for Special Issue on Restrictive Measures (Sanctions) Against Individuals, (with Francesca Galli and Scott Crosby), (2015) 6(3) New Journal of European Criminal Law (1,800 words).

‘Targeted Sanctions, Crimes and State Sovereignty’ (with Anton Moiseienko), (2015) 6(3) New Journal of European Criminal Law 351-371 (8,701 words). 

‘Transnational Policing and Regulation: The Effect of Shared Fundamental Rights on the Formalisation of Cross-Border Police Cooperation’ (2015) 3(2) European Journal of Policing Studies 204-222 (9,149 words). 

‘Strategies of Police Cooperation along the Southern Chinese Seaboard: A Comparison with the EU’ (2014) 61(4) Crime, Law and Social Change 377-399 (10,873 words). 

‘Two systems, one challenge? Comparing legal regulation on police co-operation in Australia and Europe’ (2014) 1(4) European Journal of Policing Studies 274-298 (11,616 words).

‘Transnational Organized Crime: Police Cooperation in China and the EU’ (2014) 2(1) Griffith Asia Quarterly 75-92 (7,865 words).

‘Observing Crowd-Sourced Surveillance through the Eyes of the German Basic Law’ 33(2) IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (Summer 2014) 34-35 (1,311 words).

‘The Beltracchi affair: A comment on the “most spectacular” German art forgery case in recent times’ (with Duncan Chappell) (2012) 7 Journal of Art Crime 38-43 (4,100 words).

‘Harmonising police cooperation laws in Australia and the European Union: the tension between local/national and national/supranational Interests’ (2012) 44(1) Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 45-62 (9,000 words).

‘Cross-border Police Cooperation: Traversing Domestic and International Frontiers’ (2011) 35(6) Criminal Law Journal 333-344 (7,500 words).

‘Jurisdiction Spotlight: Australia’ (2011) 1(1) Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law 132-150 (7,283 words).

‘“The Fear of insignificance”: New Perspectives on Harmonising Police Cooperation in Europe and Australia’ (2010) 6(2) Journal of Contemporary European Research 165-193 (17,408 words).

‘Harmonisation and Regional Cooperation in Cross-Border Policing: Comparing European and Australian Frameworks’ (2009) National Europe Centre Briefing Paper Series 1(2) (December 2009) ISSN 1837-4999 (6,782 words).

‘German Perspectives on the Right to Life and Human Dignity in the “War on Terror”’ (2008) Criminal Law Journal 100-113 (8,512 words). 
 

Book Chapters

‘EU Law Enforcement Cooperation with non-EU Countries’ in Shin Matsuzawa, Anne Weyembergh and Irene Wieczorek (eds) Europe and Japan Cooperation in the Fight against Cross-Border Crime, Routledge, 2022 (10,243 words).

‘Policing by Consent in a Pandemic: Security governance and policing of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom’ (with Clive Walker, Rudi Fortson and Megan O’Neill) in Monica Den Boer, Linda Hak and Eric Bervoets (eds) Plural Policing, Security and the COVID Crisis: Comparative European Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 (11,715 words). 

‘Police cooperation in counter-terrorism: limits and suitable partners’ in Clive Walker, Mariona Llobet Angli & Manuel C. Melia (eds) Precursor Crimes of Terrorism - The Criminalisation of Terrorism Risk in Comparative Perspective, Edward Elgar, 2022, 221-239 (7,579 words).

‘The Historical Development of International Law Enforcement Cooperation – The Case of Interpol’ in Neil Boister, Sabine Gless and Florian Jessberger (eds) Histories of Transnational Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, 2021, 288-300 (5,504 words).

‘Policing and Prosecution of Transnational Crime’ in Valsamis Mitsilagas, Saskia Hufnagel and Anton Moiseienko (eds) Research Handbook on Transnational Crime, Edward Elgar, 2020, 32-50 (8,235 words).

‘Policing Flows in Counter-Terrorism: Barriers to Local and Global Law Enforcement Cooperation’ in Saskia Hufnagel und Anton Moiseienko (eds) Policing Transnational Crime – Law Enforcement of Criminal Flows, Routledge, 2020, 147-165 (9,393 words).

‘Policing Australasia: Challenges and Successes of Law Enforcement Cooperation in a Diverse Region’ in John MacDaniel, Karlie Stonard and David Cox (eds) The Development of Transnational Policing – Past, Present and Future, Routledge, 2019, 118-135 (8,087 words).

‘Art Crime: Exposing a Panoply of Theft, Fraud and Plunder’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell (eds) The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 3-32 (12,868 words).

‘INTERPOL and International Trends and Developments in the Fight Against Cultural Property Crime’ in Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell (eds) The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 89-106 (7,160 words).

‘Case Study 1: Beltracchi and the History of Art Fraud in Germany’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell (eds) The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 321-342 (9,454 words).

‘Case Study 3: A Perspective from the Frontline – An Interview with an Art Forger’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell (eds) The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 363-380 (6,701 words).

‘The Gurlitt Collection and Nazi-Looted Art’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Saskia Hufnagel and Duncan Chappell (eds)  The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 587-606 (8,442 words).

‘Article 48. Law enforcement cooperation’ in Michael Kubiciel, Oliver Landwehr and Cecily Rose (eds) The United Nations Convention Against Corruption: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2018 (6,300 words).

‘A Comparative Legal History of International Policing’ in Monica den Boer (ed) Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective, Edward Elgar, 2018 (17,482 words). 

‘Policing and Society: A Legal Perspective on Gender in Police Organisations’ (with Monica den Boer) in Monica den Boer (ed) Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective, Edward Elgar, 2018 (8,851 words). 

‘Police Cooperation in Europe, China and Australia: Does Trust Depend on the Political System?’ in Saskia Hufnagel and Carole McCartney (eds) Trust in International Police and Justice Cooperation, Hart Publishing, 2017, 31-50 (7,401 words).  

‘Cross Border Law Enforcement’ in André Nollkaemper and Ilias Plakokefalos (SHARES Project) (ed) The Practice of Shared Responsibility, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 184-211 (11,098 words).

‘Organised Crime’ in Valsamis Mitsilegas, Maria Bergström, and Theodore Konstadinides (eds) Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law, Edward Elgar, 2016, 355-375 (10,222 words). 

‘The Beltracchi Affair: A Comment and Further Reflections on the “Most Spectacular” German Art Forgery Case in Recent Times’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Noah Charney (ed) Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 9-20 (3,901 words).  

‘Strategies of Police Cooperation along the Southern Chinese Seaboard: A Comparison with the EU’ in Ben Bowling and James W.E. Sheptycki (eds) Global Policing and Transnational Law Enforcement, Sage, 2015, 377-399 (10,873 words). 

‘Counter-terrorism policing and security arrangements’ in Clive Walker and Genevieve Lennon (eds), Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism, Routledge, 2015, 179-193 (8,491 words).

‘Art Fraud in Germany: Lessons Learned or the Fast Falling into Oblivion?’ in Joris Kila and Marc Balcells (eds) Cultural Property Crimes, BRILL, 2015, 111-129 (8,241 words).

‘The Gurlitt Case in German and International Perspective’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Joris Kila and Marc Balcells (eds) Cultural Property Crimes, BRILL, 2015, 221-236 (5,938 words).

‘Law Enforcement’s Still Evolving Role in Art Crime: Some Introductory Remarks’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel (eds) Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime, Ashgate, 2014, 1-14 (5,126 words).

‘Fraud and Fakes in the Art Market: Some Contemporary Case Studies’ (with Duncan Chappell) in Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel (eds) Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime, Ashgate, 2014, 57-78 (9,838 words).

‘The INTERPOL “PSYCHE” Program – Advancements in International Police Cooperation on Art Crime’ in Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel (eds) Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime, Ashgate, 2014, 255-266 (4,948).

‘Cross-Border Cooperation in Criminal Matters’ in Tony Carty (ed) Oxford Bibliographies in International Law, Oxford University Press, (online) 2014 (12,128 words).

‘Police Cooperation against Transnational Crimes’ (with Carole McCartney) in Neil Boister and Robert Currie (eds) Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law, Routledge, 2014, 107-120 (5,772 words).

‘Cross-Border Law Enforcement in the Area of Counter-Terrorism: Maintaining Human Rights in Transnational Policing’ in Clive Walker and Aniceto Masferrer (eds) Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Crossing Legal Boundaries in Defence of the State, Elgar Publishing, 2013, 241-264 (8,495 words).

‘AFP Liaison Officers: Connecting the World Down Under’ in Monica den Boer and Ludo Block (eds) Liaison Officers: An Analysis of Transnational Policing, Eleven International Publishing, 2013, 49-70 (8,827 words).

‘European Police Cooperation Frameworks: A Model for Australian Intergovernmental Coordination?’ in Maria O’Neill, Aaron Winter and Kenneth Swinton (eds) New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 258-288 (8,261 words).

‘Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Difference: Comparing the Right to Human Dignity and Criminal Liability in Germany and Australia’ in Simon Bronitt, Miriam Gani and Saskia Hufnagel (eds) Shooting to Kill: Socio-legal Perspectives on the Use of Lethal Force, Hart Publishing, 2012, 193-212 (7,299 words).

“German Perspectives on the Right to Life and Human Dignity in the ‘War on Terror’” in Saskia Hufnagel and Kent Roach (eds) Emergency Law, Ashgate, 2012, 100-113 (8,512 words).

‘(In)security crossing borders: A comparison of police cooperation within Australia and the European Union’ in Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield and Simon Bronitt (eds), Cross-Border Law Enforcement: Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation - European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Routledge, 2012, 177-208 (12,490 words).

‘The Impact of the German Human Dignity Principle on the Right to Life and the Right not to be Subject to Torture’ in Jürgen Broehmer (ed) The German Constitution Turns 60 – Basic Law and Commonwealth Constitution, German and Australian Perspectives, Peter Lang Verlag, 2011, 55-76 (9,760 words).

Other Publications

Publication of PhD Report for Julia Jansson ‘The Death of the Freedom Fighter – How the Threat of Terrorism is Suffocating the Protection of Political Criminals’ (with Christopher L Blakesley) (2015) 25 Finnish Yearbook of International Law (published in 2019) (2,378 words).

‘EPPO, Judicial review and human rights: is the New Agency benefiting from lessons learned?’ in Valentina Bazzocchi, EPPO and OLAF Investigations: The Judicial Review and Procedural Guarantees (2016) OLAF and Fondazione Lelio E Leslie Basso Issoco Publications, 76-88 (5,460 words).

‘Mapping Police Cooperation Strategies in the EU and Australia: Improving Inter-Agency Understanding’ (2016) European Police Science and Research Bulletin CEPOL, 114-122 (4,878 words).

‘EU Criminal Justice: A Work in Progress’ (with Simon Bronitt) Issue 1 (June 2012) Euro Legal Studies (Articles followed by questions for classroom activities that are designed to inform and stimulate discussions about the role and functions of the European Union with particular relevance to Australia. This is an outreach publication of the ANU Centre for European Studies.) Available online (4,360 words).

‘Double Jeopardy: A Principle in Jeopardy?’ (with Johannes Krebs) LegalDate 20(3), July 2008, available online (4,201 words).

‘The Use of Military Force Against Hijacked Aircraft: The Legal and Moral Limits of Necessity and Pre-emptive Defences’ (with Simon Bronitt) ANU College of Law Working Paper (30 October, 2007) (8,734 words).