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ELISA HOVEN

Elisa Hoven is Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the Institute for Media Law at the University of Leipzi. She also serves as a judge at Saxony’s constitutional court. She writes regularly for DIE ZEIT and Die Welt and makes various expert guest appearances on TV. In 2023, together with Thomas Weigend, she published her first DuMont non-fiction title. Her first novel ‘Dunkle Momente’ was published in February 2025.