Sabine Witting is an Assistant Professor at eLaw.

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Research

Sabine Witting is an Assistant Professor at eLaw focusing on the intersection of fundamental rights and children’s rights with digital technologies. In this highly polarised area, various interest groups often pit rights against each other, making it challenging to reconcile competing fundamental rights interests. This complexity is further amplified when considering different rights holders, such as adults and children, and the diverse compelling interests involved, such as investigating online child sexual abuse offences while upholding privacy and data protection. In this context, Sabine is particularly interested in the development of regulatory measures within the EU, and how such measures impact lawmaking and regulatory processes across the world. Acknowledging the complex transnational nature of fundamental rights, children’s rights and digital technologies, her research and teaching is interdisciplinary and comparative in nature.

Teaching

Sabine is the Course Coordinator and main lecturer for the module ‘Human Rights in a Digital Age’ in the Advanced LL.M. in European and International Human Rights Law. She also teaches modules on children’s rights and digital technologies as part of the Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies and the Advanced LL.M. in International Children’s Rights.

Biography

Sabine Witting studied law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and China University of Political Science and Law, specialising in the internationalisation and Europeanisation of law. In 2020, she successfully defended her PhD thesis at Leiden University entitled 'Child sexual abuse in the digital era - Rethinking legal frameworks and transnational law enforcement collaboration’. Since 2015, Sabine has worked for the United Nations and national NGOs in Eastern and Southern Africa and the East Asia and Pacific region, where she advises governments, civil society and other stakeholders on the prevention of and responses to online and physical violence against women and children, legal reform and international law.

In 2022, she co-founded Tech Legality, a consulting firm founded to ensure that digital technologies are deployed and governed in a way that protects and respects human rights, safeguarding the needs of children and vulnerable and marginalised communities.

Publications