Speaker: Dr. Kai Ambos

Dr. Kai Ambos is a professor of criminal law and criminal procedure, comparative law, international criminal law and public international law and director general of the Center for Studies of Latin American Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He served as a judge at the Provincial Court of Göttingen, Germany, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers at The Hague and amicus curiae of the Peace Tribunal of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. In addition, he is a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lisbon.

Ambos received the Carlos Lemos Simmonds Order from the Colombian Press Association and the German Embassy in Bogotá award. It rewards transparency, democracy, Colombian-German friendship and social development in Colombia. 

Moderator: Dr. Carsten Momsen

Dr. Carsten Momsen heads the Department of Comparative Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, White Collar/ Economic and Environmental Criminal Law at Freie Universität Berlin. He is an ongoing visiting scholar at the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College and holds a position as scholar in residence at New York Law School. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. Momsen is a founding member and PI of the Berlin-based Einstein Center Digital Future and a permanent member of the program committee of the international conference series, Systematic Approaches on Digital Forensic Engineering.

In addition to various compliance issues, Momsen’s projects are focused on corporate responsibility for human rights violations. His research also includes data protection issues, digital evidence, digital forensics and the discriminatory effects of predictive policing based on the use of Big Data and AI and the subsequent impact on human rights. He is the co-founder and director of the first nationwide German Wrongful-Conviction Project.

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Co-sponsored by the International Crime & Justice MA Program, International Criminal Justice BA Program, Human Rights MA Program and Minor in Human Rights Program.