Elvira Loibl (E.C.)
- Organized (Transnational) Crime
- Trafficking in Children
- Empirical Legal Research
- Interdisciplinary Research
- Cultural Studies
- European Criminal Law
- Procedural Criminal Law
- Criminal Policy
Dr. Elvira Loibl is an assistant professor at the department of criminal law and criminology. She received her law degree (Mag. iur.) at the University of Vienna and her LL.M. in Forensics, Criminology and Law at Maastricht University. In 2019, she defended her dissertation titled "The Transnational Illegal Adoption Market: A Criminological Study of the German and Dutch Intercountry Adoption System" cum laude. Her dissertation received an honourable mention from the selection committee of the Modderman Prize for the best dissertation in the field of criminal law.
Elvira Loibl's research interests lie transnational organized crime, illegal markets, and crimes against children. Her main focus is on child trafficking for adoption purposes, particularly on the question as to how illegal intercountry adoptions are organized and facilitated and which measures can be taken to respond to the harm inflicted upon the victims. She conducts comparative and interdisciplinary research, combining normative legal analysis with empirical legal research and cultural studies.
