Prof. Dr Cathrine Konopatsch

Dr. Cathrine Konopatsch is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at UniDistance Suisse. She received her doctorate on the topic ‘The Law and Practice of Austrian Antitrust Enforcement - A Critical Analysis in the Light of National and European Competition Law Dogmatics and Policy’ from the University of Graz, Austria, and at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria, she completed a postgraduate degree in European Law.
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«StGB AT Kompakt: Ein Lehr- und Lernbuch zum Allgemeinen Teil I des Strafgesetzbuches»
Teaching
M02 |
Strafrecht AT
Bachelor in Geschichte
Strafrecht AT Bachelor in Recht |
M10 | Strafrecht BT Bachelor in Recht |
Functions at UniDistance Suisse
Faculty of Law
- Assistant Professor
White Collar Criminal Law and Digitalisation
- Assistant professor
Faculty Council of the Faculty of Law
- Assistant professor
Cathrine Konopatsch's research focuses in particular on asset recovery, national, European and international economic and corporate criminal law, and comparative criminal law.
In addition, Prof. Dr. Cathrine Konopatsch, MLaw Isabelle Baumann, Dr. iur. Martin Brandenstein and MLaw Patrick Uhrmeister work on various publications and conference contributions in the areas of whistleblowing, industrial espionage, corporate criminal law and asset forfeiture.
Ongoing research projects
- Habilitationsprojekt: Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Effizienz der Vorschriften zur Abschöpfung von Taterträgen – eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Geschädigteninteressen
- Beitrag zu «Industrial Espionage» in: Elgar Encyclopaedia of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (erscheint Mitte 2023)
- Kooperation mit der Universität Liechtenstein zur strafrechtlichen Verantwortlichkeit von Unternehmen (2022-2023)
- Kommentierung von Art. 148a, Art. 157, Art. 179decies, Art. 333 und Art. 335 StGB im OnlineKommentar Strafgesetzbuch, hrsg. von Prof. Dr. Marianne J. Lehmkuhl/Dr. Jan Wenk (2022-2023)
Research groups
White Collar Criminal Law and Digitalisation
Faculty of Law