Heike Jung (lawyer)

Heike Jung (born April 23, 1942 ) is a professor emeritus for criminal law at Saarland University .

Jung studied from 1961 to 1965 at the universities in Heidelberg , Tübingen and at the University of Saarland. He received his doctorate in 1972 and completed his habilitation in 1976. From 1976 to 1977 he was Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Hamburg and then Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law from 1977 to 2008 and later held the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Criminology and Comparative Criminal Law at Saarland University . He was visiting professor in Edinburgh , visiting fellow at All Souls College , Oxford and visiting professor at the Universities of Paris I, Uppsala and Bergen . From 1990 to 1995 he was a member of the “Criminological Scientific Council” at the Council of Europe and from 1995 to 2006 the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law . He is an Honorary Doctor of Law from Uppsala University.

In addition to his teaching activities, he worked as a judge at the Saarbrücken Regional Court and the Saarland Higher Regional Court from 1980 to 1994 .

Web links

• Heike Jung on the homepage of Saarland University
• Literature by and about Heike Jung in the catalog of the German National Library