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Melody Bozinova

PhD Candidate
Research project Revamping Anticorruption Criminal Law (PI: Prof. Nadja Capus)

Phone: +41 32 718 1557
Building A.-L. Breguet 1, office 120

Melody Bozinova is a PhD candidate in the project "Revamping Anticorruption Criminal Law - Strategies and Consequences (RevACLaw)" led by Prof. Nadja Capus (Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). This project analyses recent developments in the fight against corporate corruption in the three areas of criminal law: substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and international mutual assistance.
In 2014, Melody Bozinova obtained  her Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Fribourg and in 2017 her Master of Law in Criminology and Security from the University of Lausanne. Before starting her PhD, she worked since 2017 in the field of rehabilitation of people suffering from addiction and in the execution of sentences or penal measures in open environments.

Bozinova, M. (2024). De l’assimilation à la différenciation : vers une justice négociée pour la criminalité d’entreprise en Suisse. Bulletin Infoprisons, n° 37. link

Bozinova, M. et Nunnari, B. (2023). La coordination des accords en matière de corruption transnationale : l'affaire ABB. Nouvelle Revue de Criminologie et de Politique Pénale (2). link

Capus, N. and Bozinova, M. (2023). Impression management in corporate corruption settlements: The storied self of the prosecutorial authority. International Journal of Law Crime and Justice (73). link

(2024) From rules to stories: A narrative expressivism approach to anti-bribery enforcement, Graduate Workshop with David Garland: What’s the Point of Theorising about Criminal Law and Justice? University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

(2024) Comparative narratives of transnational corporate bribery: Corporate offenders in focus, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Criminology goes East, Bucharest, Romania.

(2024) Storying transnational corporate bribery: Corporate offenders in focus, European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) annual conference, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Juridicas, Elche, Spain.

(2023) Settlement stories of transnational corporate bribery: A comparative perspective between England and Wales and Switzerland, Socio-legal Studies Association (SLSA) annual conference, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, 05.04.2023.

(2023) Storying transnational corporate bribery: Negotiated resolutions in Switzerland, Manchester Organizational Non-compliance Initiative (MONI) conference, Manchester, England.