Konstanze Jarvers

Dr. Konstanze Jarvers is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, specializing in Italian criminal law, comparative criminal law, and gender-based violence. She leads the Expert Opinions Section and co-leads the International Max Planck Information System for Comparative Criminal Law.

• Focus Areas: Italian criminal law, prison law, alternative dispute resolution, femicide, domestic violence
• Projects: The Criminalization of Femicide: A Comparative Legal Perspective, After the Istanbul Convention: Measures against Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, The Codice Rosso: New Measures against Gender-Based Violence in Italy

She has contributed to translating legal texts like the Italian Penal Code and serves on editorial boards for legal history publications. Her work includes providing expert opinions for the German Federal Constitutional Court on incest cases.

Awards:

• Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (2013), conferred by the Italian Republic for strengthening academic ties between Italy and Germany in legal scholarship