Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure & Philosophy of Law
Prof. Dr Bayer and her team focus their research on the following topics:
- Criminal law: the doctrine of participation, pre-offence criminalisation, offences against the maintenance of peace, protection of infrastructure, organised crime structures
- Criminal procedure law: victims’ and witnesses’ rights, the presumption of innocence, assessment of evidence, ‘he said, she said’ scenarios
- Political philosophy of law: social contract theories, theories of crime, democratisation
- Interdisciplinary legal criticism: law and literature, in particular political theatre, materialist and feminist perspectives, alternatives to the law