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
University of Birmingham
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 Göttingen and then the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law both in Germany. She joined the University of Birmingham 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 – Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings

Current doctoral students:

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

Find out more - our PhD Law page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

Dr Wade’s interests relate strongly to the reality of cross-border criminal justice cooperation and the impact of criminal justice measures on people’s lives. As a consequence the notion of EU citizenship, the development of a European Public Prosecutor’s 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 of Birmingham 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, 'The EPPO and the pitfalls of actuarial justice', Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/1023263X211006516

Wade, M 2020, 'True EU citizenship as a precursor to genuine criminal justice in Europe: an analysis of EU citizenship as it relates to a sustainable area of freedom, security and justice', Criminal Law Forum, vol. 31, pp. 291-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-020-09396-9

Wade, M 2019, 'Meeting the demands of justice whilst coping with crushing caseloads? How Sykes and Matza help us understand prosecutors across Europe', Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, vol. 2018, no. 5-6, pp. 1-35. <http://krimteme.fkn.unsa.ba/index.php/kt/article/view/242>

Wade, M 2015, 'Securing Defence Rights in Transnational Proceedings', European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 145-169. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-23022065

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Wade, M 2023, Cross-Border Crimes. in K Ambos & P Racknow (eds), The Cambridge Companion to European Criminal Law. 1 edn, Cambridge Companions to Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 182-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891875.012

Wade, M 2019, Combatting trafficking human beings: a step on the road to global justice? in J Winterdyk & J Jones (eds), The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. 1st edn, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63192-9_108-1

Wade, M 2016, Countering Violent Extremism - The Role of the European Union. in F Ejdus & P Jureković (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”, Belgrade, Serbia, 27/09/15.

Wade, M 2016, Why some old dogs must learn new tricks: recognising the new in EU criminal justice? 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, Judicial Cooperation Between the UK and EU in Criminal Matters Post Brexit. in G Davies & H Carrapico (eds), UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. 1st edn, Hart Studies in European Criminal Law, Bloomsbury Publishing.

Wade, M 2019, The European Public Prosecutor: Controversy Expressed in Structural Form. 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, Online Searches. in K Ligeti (ed.), Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union, Volume 2: Draft Rules of Procedure. Hart Publishing.

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

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

Commissioned report

Wade, M 2014, Developing a Criminal Justice Area in the European Union. European Union, Brussels.

Other contribution

Cole, SJ, Noszlopy, L & Wade, M 2025, Written evidence submitted by Dr Sam J Cole; Dr Laura Noszlopy; Dr Marianne L Wade – Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK (COM0032). UK Parliament. <https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/142735/pdf/>

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