
Thomas Wahl is a senior researcher in the Department of Public Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (formerly: May Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He is responsible for “European Law” matters. His academic work deals with the legal instruments of the European Union and the Council of Europe that concern criminal law. He is an international expert on judicial and police cooperation, extradition, procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings, data protection, and fighting terrorism. He is also the managing editor of eucrim – a project that regularly informs the public on current developments in European criminal law (https://eucrim.eu).