Carsten Momsen

Carsten Momsen (* 1966 in Bremen ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Momsen completed an apprenticeship as a banker from 1985 to 1987 and was then a foreign exchange and securities dealer in Bremen and Frankfurt am Main until 1989. He then studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen until 1993 . From 1994 he worked at the Chair for Criminal Law , Criminal Procedure Law , Comparative Criminal Law with Manfred Maiwald and was a research fellow of the State of Lower Saxony . In addition, he took up a second degree in philosophy as well as medieval and modern history. In 1996 the doctorate to Dr. jur. on the subject of procedural errors and the right to complain in criminal proceedings . Until 1998 he started his internship at the Higher Regional Court in Celle . Momsen then became a research assistant at Maiwald. As a part-time, he also worked as a criminal defense lawyer , primarily in commercial criminal proceedings and appeal proceedings . In 2004 he completed his habilitation on the subject of the reasonableness as the limit of criminal obligations .

In the same year Momsen accepted a professorship for criminal law including commercial criminal law and criminal procedure law at Saarland University . From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a lecturer in the specialist lawyer course. In 2008 he was awarded the State Prize for University Teaching. In 2010 Momsen accepted a professorship for criminal law, criminal procedural law and commercial criminal law at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . In the same year he founded the research center for banking and capital market law as well as capital market criminal law. In 2012 he was visiting professor at Symbiosis Law School in Pune . From 2012 he also headed the student legal advice at the University of Hanover. From 2013 to 2015 Momsen was Dean of Studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Hanover.

Since 2015, Momsen has headed the department (chair) for comparative criminal law, criminal procedural law, commercial and environmental criminal law at the Free University of Berlin. In 2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Toronto / Canada. In 2019 he will be visiting professor again at the University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Toronto / Canada, and at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University New York (CUNY) / USA. In 2020 Momsen is again visiting professor at the Center for International Human Rights of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University New York (CUNY) / USA.

Momsen is a permanent member of the Program Committee of the "SADFE" Conference Series (Systematic Approaches for Digital Forensic Engineering) and a member of the "Kriminalpolitischer Kreis" and the "Anglo-German Dialogue on Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Justice". Momsen has been a founding member and PI of the "Einstein Center Digital Future" since 2017. Momsen has been a member of the "AE Working Group Alternative Design" since 2018. Momsen has been Scholar in Residence at New York Law School, New York, USA, since 2020.

He heads the “FU Law Clinic - Practice of Criminal Defense” project. In 2019, the project was expanded to include pro bono advice on criminal warrant proceedings in cooperation with the Berlin Defense Lawyers Association.

Momsen works part-time as a criminal defense attorney ( Of Counsel ) in the law firm Hannover und Partner in Bremen, in particular in revision and commercial criminal law as well as in proceedings related to the USA.

Web links

Literature by and about Carsten Momsen in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/einrichtungen/strafrecht/lehrende/momsenc/index.html
2. ↑ http://www.jura.fu-berlin.de/en/studium/lawclinic/index.html
3. ↑ System administrator: Hannover & Partner: Chancellery. Retrieved July 19, 2017 .