Laura Neumann previously held chairs at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) as well as in Heidelberg, Mannheim, Hamburg, and Leipzig.

In July 2022, she habilitated at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on the supervisory sanctions law of European agencies using the example of EU capital market criminal law.

She received her PhD in 2014, also from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, with a thesis on the potential role model effect of the U.S. criminal law system for a European criminal law system. During her doctoral studies, she undertook research stays in Cambridge and Atlanta in the USA. Prof. Neumann completed her legal clerkship in Münster, Düsseldorf, Berlin, and Tokyo. Prior to that, she studied Law at the University of Heidelberg, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and the Università degli Studi Roma Tre.

Laura Neumann's research focuses are economic criminal law, especially in its European and international dimension, European and international criminal law as such, and comparative criminal law. She places a special focus on questions of criminal justice system research.