Dr Marianne Wade

Birmingham Law School
Reader in Criminal Justice

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4790
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3585
Email: m.l.wade@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Wade’s activities focus on cross-border criminal justice co-operation and particularly related developments within the EU. Work focusing on the crimes of terrorism and trafficking human beings and their prevention, investigation and prosecution at a national, regional and global level forms part of this. The genesis of a European public prosecutor’s office and the concept of European citizenship particularly as it relates to defence rights are further focal points. Comparative legal scholarship constitutes an important component of this work.

A key aspect of Dr. Wade’s work is informing policy. Examples of this are the EuroNEEDs study (preliminary report published in 2011 and cited by the European Commission in its Impact Assessment as evidence in its proposal for a European Public Prosecutor’s Office), evidence provided to the House of Lords EU Select Committee and a study delivered to the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament on “Developing a Criminal Justice System for the European Union”. Previously Dr Wade has provided expert advice to i.a. the German Federal and State Committee of Data Protection Commissioners, the Rule of Law Delegation of the OSCE Spillover Mission to Skopje, the international prosecutor’s office of the ECCC, the UNDP’s POGAR conference, the President of the German Prosecutor-Generals’ working group and the Dutch Ministry of Justice.

Dr Wade is the Director of the Institute of Judicial Administration and the Co-Director (Law) of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing, a Fellow of the Institute of Global Innovation and a member of West Midlands Police Counter-Terrorism Reference Group.

Qualifications

LLB Law and German – University of Bristol
Magistra Iura – University of Göttingen, Germany
Doc. Jur - University of Göttingen, Germany

Biography

Dr Wade was educated in Norway, the UK and Germany before she began working for the Department of Criminology of the University of G枚ttingen and then the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law both in Germany. She joined the University 麻豆精选 in 2011.

Teaching

Criminology (LLB)
Counter-terrorism (LLB)
Criminal Law (LLB)
Global Crime Problems (LLM, module leader)
EU Criminal Law and Justice (LLM, module leader)

Postgraduate supervision

European Criminal Law
European Criminal Justice
Comparative criminal and criminal procedure law
Structural Developments in Criminal Justice
Terrorism 鈥� Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings

Current doctoral students:

The Challenges Associated with Identifying Victims of Trafficking Human Beings 鈥� Matthew Davis
The Suitability of Trial by Jury for Trafficking in Persons Cases 鈥� Jack Murphy

Find out more - our PhD Law page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

Dr Wade鈥檚 interests relate strongly to the reality of cross-border criminal justice cooperation and the impact of criminal justice measures on people鈥檚 lives. As a consequence the notion of EU citizenship, the development of a European Public Prosecutor鈥檚 Office and the impact of Counter-terrorism policy are areas of specific focus.

This builds on comparative work on criminal justice structures across the world. Dr Wade has previously done criminological work on surveillance and legal comparative work on prosecution services and criminal justice structures.

Other activities

Dr Wade speaks regularly at academic (e.g. European Society of Criminology Plenary, 2018) and practitioner conferences (ERA, Europol, Eurojust).

She also works as a member of the legal expert advisory board of the NGO Fair Trials International, is a member of the UK European Criminal Law Association and a Fellow of the Daimler-Benz Foundation.

Peer Reviewing activities include evaluation of EU projects (FP6, FP7, H2020 including Marie Curie) for CUP, Routledge and a variety of academic journals.

She is an associate editor of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research and an editorial board member of Crime, Law and Social Change as well as Sicherheit und Frieden.

She is regularly interviewed by screen and print media including the BBC, ITV, (German) BR and (Austrian) ATV and will speak at the upcoming TedX University 麻豆精选 event on 16th February 2019.

Co-Director of the Institute of Judicial Administration
Co-Director (Law) of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing
Fellow of the Institute of Global Innovation
West Midlands Police Counter-Terrorism Reference Group Member

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Wade, ML 2021, '', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 265-280.

Wade, M 2020, '', Criminal Law Forum, vol. 31, pp. 291-344.

Wade, M 2019, '', Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, vol. 2018, no. 5-6, pp. 1-35. <>

Wade, M 2015, '', European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 145-169.

Wade, M 2013, '', Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 506-609.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Wade, M 2023, . in The Cambridge Companion to European Criminal Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 182-205.

Wade, M 2019, in J Winterdyk & J Jones (eds), The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. 1st edn, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-21.

Wade, M 2016, . in F Ejdus & P Jurekovi膰 (eds), Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans. Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of Republic of Austria, Vienna, pp. 179-200, Violent Extremism in the Western Balkans鈥�, Belgrade, Serbia, 27/09/15.

Wade, M 2016, in R Colson & S Field (eds), EU Criminal Justice and the Challenges of Diversity: Legal Cultures in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-84.

Chapter

Wade, M 2025, . in The UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post Brexit. Hart Publishing.

Wade, M 2019, . in T Rafaraci & R Belfiore (eds), EU Criminal Justice : Fundamental Rights, Transnational Proceedings and the European Public Prosecutor's Office. Springer, Cham, pp. 165-180.

Wade, M 2017, . in K Ligeti (ed.), Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union, Volume 2: Draft Rules of Procedure. Hart Publishing.

Commissioned report

Wade, M 2014, . European Union, Brussels.