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Professor Andreas Schloenhardt
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Andreas Schloenhardt

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Overview

Background

Andreas Schloenhardt is Professor of Criminal Law in the School of Law at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and Honorary Professor for Foreign and International Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Professor Schloenhardt is the convenor of the Transnational Organised Crime programme (https://toc.jura.uni-koeln.de/), a research and learning network with academic staff and students from the University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the University of Cologne (Germany), the University of Ferrara (Italy), and the University of Queensland (Australia). Professor Schloenhardt holds a PhD in Law from The University of Adelaide. Prior to his position at The University of Queensland, he was a lecturer at The University of Adelaide Law School.

Professor Schloenhardt’s principal areas of research include criminal law, organised crime, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, wildlife trafficking, narco-trafficking, terrorism, criminology, and immigration and refugee law. He is the author of many books and journal articles and his work is frequently cited by other scholars, in government reports, and judicial decisions, including the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Austria.

Professor Schloenhardt has held adjunct appointments and visiting professorships at the University of Zurich, the University of St Gallen, the University of Ferrara, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law , The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. In 2011-2012, Professor Schloenhardt was a recipient of a Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Professor Schloenhardt is a member of the Austrian Society of Criminal Law and Criminology and he has worked extensively with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Council of Europe, the Global Initiative against Transnational Crime, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and a range of law enforcement agencies in Australia and Asia.

Availability

Professor Andreas Schloenhardt is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide

Research interests

  • Smuggling of migrants, irregular migration, trafficking in persons

  • Trafficking in fauna and flora: illegal trade in wildlife, animal parts and plants

  • Organised Crime

  • Immigration and Refugee Law

Research impacts

Professor Andreas Schloenhardt research work has shaped international and domestic laws and policies relating to organised crime, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, and other areas of criminal law. He has been instrumental in developing interpretative tools, assessment guides, best practice guidelines and drafted national laws on these and other topics. This includes, inter alia, the Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Assessment Guide for the Criminal Justice Response to Smuggling of Migrants, and the Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytical Toolkit. Professor Schloenhardt has developed a range of model laws for the United Nations and several Member States and worked closely with Australian Government agencies in the development and critical review of anti-organised crime legislation. His work has been cited in judicial decisions, including by the High Court of Australia, and he is frequent commentator in the Austrian, Australian, and Swiss news media.

Works

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265 works between 1999 and 2025

81 - 100 of 265 works

2020

Book

Wildlife trafficking: the illicit trade in wildlife, animal parts, and derivatives

Gian Ege, Andreas Schloenhardt and Christian Schwarzenegger eds. (2020). Wildlife trafficking: the illicit trade in wildlife, animal parts, and derivatives. Sui generis, Berlin, Germany: Carl Grossmann. doi: 10.24921/2020.94115945

Wildlife trafficking: the illicit trade in wildlife, animal parts, and derivatives

2020

Conference Publication

Legal frameworks to combat organised crime in the Pacific Islands

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2020). Legal frameworks to combat organised crime in the Pacific Islands. In: 20 years after Palermo: Revisiting the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Online - hosted by University of Canterbury, (). 11 September 2020.

Legal frameworks to combat organised crime in the Pacific Islands

2020

Journal Article

More scope for murder: reckless indifference in Queensland's criminal code

Lelliott, Joseph, Schloenhardt, Andreas, Causer, Lauren and Skeen, Madeleine (2020). More scope for murder: reckless indifference in Queensland's criminal code. Criminal Law Journal, 44 (1), 19-31.

More scope for murder: reckless indifference in Queensland's criminal code

2020

Conference Publication

Wildlife trafficking: criminological, international law, and criminal law perspectives

Schloenhardt, Andreas and Ege, Gian (2020). Wildlife trafficking: criminological, international law, and criminal law perspectives. 16th Wissenschaftliche Fachtagung der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft - 16th Scientific Conference of the Criminological Society, Vienna, Austria, 5-7 September 2019. Moenchengladbach, Germany: Forum Verlag.

Wildlife trafficking: criminological, international law, and criminal law perspectives

2020

Book Chapter

Wildlife trafficking: causes, characteristics, and consequences

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2020). Wildlife trafficking: causes, characteristics, and consequences. Wildlife trafficking: the illicit trade in wildlife, animal parts, and derivatives. (pp. 1-36) edited by Gian Ege, Andreas Schloenhardt and Christian Schwarzenegger. Berlin, Germany: Carl Grossmann.

Wildlife trafficking: causes, characteristics, and consequences

2020

Book

Legislative guide for the protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, supplementing the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2020). Legislative guide for the protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, supplementing the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime. Vienna, Austria: United Nations.

Legislative guide for the protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, supplementing the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime

2019

Other Outputs

Facilitators of smuggling of migrants in Southeast Asia: fraudulent documents, money laundering, and corruption

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Facilitators of smuggling of migrants in Southeast Asia: fraudulent documents, money laundering, and corruption. Bangkok, Thailand: UNODC.

Facilitators of smuggling of migrants in Southeast Asia: fraudulent documents, money laundering, and corruption

2019

Other Outputs

The new drug highway: Pacific Islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom

Lyons, Kate and Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019, 06 19). The new drug highway: Pacific Islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom The Guardian (Australia)

The new drug highway: Pacific Islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom

2019

Journal Article

Die kriminelle Vereinigung als Qualifikationsmerkmal im oesterreichischen Strafrecht

Schloenhardt, Andreas and Rauchegger, Dorothea (2019). Die kriminelle Vereinigung als Qualifikationsmerkmal im oesterreichischen Strafrecht. Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, 131 (1), 239-258. doi: 10.1515/zstw-2019-0009

Die kriminelle Vereinigung als Qualifikationsmerkmal im oesterreichischen Strafrecht

2019

Conference Publication

Irregular migration and smuggling of migrant along the Balkans Route 2011-2017

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Irregular migration and smuggling of migrant along the Balkans Route 2011-2017. Flucht und Migration entlang der Balkanroute, Vienna, Austria, 2 July 2019.

Irregular migration and smuggling of migrant along the Balkans Route 2011-2017

2019

Book Chapter

Irregular migration and smuggling of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific: A review of existing evidence

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Irregular migration and smuggling of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific: A review of existing evidence. Supporting brighter futures: Young women and girls and labour migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific. (pp. 99-111) edited by McAuliffe, Marie. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Migration.

Irregular migration and smuggling of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific: A review of existing evidence

2019

Conference Publication

A short history of smuggling of migrants in international law

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). A short history of smuggling of migrants in international law. Histories of Transnational Criminal Law, Hanover, Germany, 15-18 October 2019.

A short history of smuggling of migrants in international law

2019

Conference Publication

Wildlife Trafficking: Criminological, International law and criminal law perspectives

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Wildlife Trafficking: Criminological, International law and criminal law perspectives. 16. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft, Vienna, Austria, 5-7 September 2019.

Wildlife Trafficking: Criminological, International law and criminal law perspectives

2019

Conference Publication

Wildlife, forest and fisheries crime

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Wildlife, forest and fisheries crime. Educating for the Rule of Law: United Nations Education for Justice International High Level Conference, Vienna, Austria, 7-9 October 2019.

Wildlife, forest and fisheries crime

2019

Book

Austrian Code of Criminal Procedure/Strafprozessordnung

Schloenhardt, Andreas, Eder, Johannes and Höpfel, Frank (2019). Austrian Code of Criminal Procedure/Strafprozessordnung. Vienna, Austria: NWV.

Austrian Code of Criminal Procedure/Strafprozessordnung

2019

Other Outputs

Criminalisation Of Smuggling Of Migrants In ASEAN Member States

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Criminalisation Of Smuggling Of Migrants In ASEAN Member States. Bangkok, Thailand: UNODC.

Criminalisation Of Smuggling Of Migrants In ASEAN Member States

2019

Journal Article

20 years of torture: reflections on s320A of Queensland's criminal code

Schloenhardt, Andreas, Lelliott, Joseph, Kretowicz, Anna, Harduwar, Omar, McFadden, Rory and Sweeney, Greta (2019). 20 years of torture: reflections on s320A of Queensland's criminal code. Criminal Law Journal, 43 (1), 58-68.

20 years of torture: reflections on s320A of Queensland's criminal code

2019

Book Chapter

Smugglers and samaritans: criminalising the smuggling of migrants in international and Australian law

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Smugglers and samaritans: criminalising the smuggling of migrants in international and Australian law. Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics, and Society. (pp. 253-273) edited by Billings, Peter. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-9093-7_11

Smugglers and samaritans: criminalising the smuggling of migrants in international and Australian law

2019

Journal Article

Review of Henri Decœur: Confronting the Shadow State: An International Law Perspective on State Organized Crime

Schloenhardt, Andreas (2019). Review of Henri Decœur: Confronting the Shadow State: An International Law Perspective on State Organized Crime. German Yearbook of International Law, 61, 582-585.

Review of Henri Decœur: Confronting the Shadow State: An International Law Perspective on State Organized Crime

2018

Journal Article

Of Mantraps and Spring Guns: Queensland's s 327 of the Criminal Code in the 21st Century

Schloenhardt, Andreas, Goffinet, Xavier, Lomas, Harriet, Moore, Alexander and Meehan, James (2018). Of Mantraps and Spring Guns: Queensland's s 327 of the Criminal Code in the 21st Century. Queensland Lawyer, 38, 35-47.

Of Mantraps and Spring Guns: Queensland's s 327 of the Criminal Code in the 21st Century

Funding

Past funding

  • 2012 - 2014
    Prosecuting migrant smuggling: International law and domestic practice
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2010
    Human Trafficking and the Protection of Foreign Sex Workers in Australia and Canada: A Comparative Analysis
    UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards - DVC(R) Funding
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    Protecting foreign workers in Queensland's sex industry
    Legal Practitioner Interest on Trust Accounts Fund
    Open grant
  • 2008
    Research on Organised Crime in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region
    Australian Federal Police
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2009
    An organised crime legislation in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2009
    Transitional organised crime: Contemporary criminology and criminal law in Australia and the Asia Pacific region
    Australian Institute of Criminology
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2006
    Transnational Organised Crime & International Criminal Law
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Crimes against the Environment in International Criminal Law

    In 2023, the Council of Europe started to draft a new convention ‘to protect the environment through criminal law’. Similar initiatives have been debated in the United Nations systems and by academic experts. Research on this topic can examine the new Council of Europe Convention in detail or look more broadly at existing or emerging international frameworks to criminalise crime against the environment.

    For further information please contact Professor Andreas Schloenhardt, e: a.schloenhardt@uq.edu.au.

  • Crimes against Cultural Property in International Criminal Law

    In 2017, the Council of Europe adopted a new Convention on Offences relating to Cultural Property. In addition, there is patchwork of other international frameworks that, directly or indirectly, address this crime type. Research on this topic can examine the new Council of Europe Convention in detail or look more broadly at existing or emerging international frameworks to criminalise offences relating to cultural property.

    For further information please contact Professor Andreas Schloenhardt, e: a.schloenhardt@uq.edu.au.

Supervision history

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

Contact Professor Andreas Schloenhardt directly for media enquiries about:

  • Criminal law
  • Criminology
  • Detention of refugees and law
  • Drug trafficking
  • Human rights law
  • Immigration law
  • International criminal law
  • Law - criminal
  • Law - human rights
  • Law - immigration
  • Law - international criminal
  • Law - refugee
  • Organised crime
  • Refugee law
  • Terrorism
  • Trafficking - drugs

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