Amelia Schwedersky advises and defends clients in all areas of criminal law, in particular in cases with international implications.

While working as a research assistant at Knauer&, she already participated in highly complex extradition proceedings, focussing in particular on proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (EGMR) and the European Convention on Human Rights (EMRK).

Following her studies at the Free University of Berlin and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Amelia Schwedersky completed her legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, including stations at the Federal Ministry of Justice in the International Criminal Law Department and with a Berlin criminal defence lawyer. In addition, Amelia Schwedersky worked in a law firm in Brussels (Belgium), which is highly regarded internationally in the fields of criminal law and human rights law, as part of her elective traineeship.

Amelia Schwedersky speaks German, English and Spanish.

• Commercial criminal law

• Criminal tax law

• Extradition, mutual legal assistance and Interpol

• International criminal law / criminal human rights protection

• General criminal law

• Comment on: Federal Court of Justice (BGH), Decision of Jan. 22, 2026 - 6 StR 245/25 – “Prohibition of Double Jeopardy," co-authored with Sören Schomburg, NStZ 9/2026, 577 [2026]

• Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V. (djb)

German, English, Spanish