Christoph Safferling

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Christoph JM Safferling (* 1971 in Alzenau-Wasserlos ) is a German professor for criminal law , criminal procedure law , international criminal law and international law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Life

He studied in Munich and passed his first state examination there in 1996. From 1996 to 1997 he studied at the London School of Economics , where he obtained a Master of Laws degree . In 1999 he received his doctorate in Munich and passed the second state examination there in 2000. From 2000 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the University of Hanover . From 2002 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In June 2006 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen. In the summer semester 2006 and winter semester 2006/2007 he started as a substitute professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

On August 1, 2007, he took over the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law, international criminal law and international law at the Philipps University of Marburg. From November 2008 to March 2015 he was a member of the board of directors of the Research and Documentation Center for War Crimes Trials at the University of Marburg. Safferling is also a lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . He is also co-editor of the German Law Journal (area of ​​criminal law) and the Revista internationale del Diritto Penale . He is an advisor to the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court in matters of “ Nuremberg Trials ”, member of the Advisory Board of the Nuremberg Museums for the establishment of the Nuremberg Trials Memorium and member of the International Criminal Law Working Group.

In 2005 he was named Whitney R. Harris International Law Scholar at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown , NY, USA. In 2006 he was awarded the prize for good teaching by the Bavarian Minister of Science. In 2006 he received the Konrad Hellwig Prize for his habilitation thesis intent and guilt .

Scientific activity

In his research, Safferling is particularly concerned with international criminal law and the legal processing of war crimes .

Safferling, together with the historian Manfred Görtemaker, was commissioned by the Federal Minister of Justice to investigate the "continuity of National Socialist Germany in the governmental activities of the Federal Ministry of Justice in the post-war period of the 1950s and 1960s". The final report was published in 2016.

In April 2014, Christoph Safferling was elected a non-judicial member of the State Court of Hesse . Since he has his main residence outside of Hesse, the election was declared invalid in September.

On April 1, 2015, he accepted a position at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Fonts

  • Intent and guilt: subjective elements of the perpetrator in German and English criminal law , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008
  • Towards an international criminal procedure: how to reconcile continental and Anglo-American criminal procedure in an international procedural order from a human rights perspective , Munich, 1999
  • Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling (ed.): The Rosenburg. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi past - an inventory . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016 ISBN 978-3-525-30046-6
  • with Manfred Görtemaker : The Rosenburg files, The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era , CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 .
  • "The Inevitable Walk of a Decent Person," NJW 2017, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Müller: The cold statute of limitations , FAZ , January 10, 2012.
  2. ^ Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era , 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 .
  3. ↑ The Hessian State Court has to replace Safferling. FAZ, September 5, 2014, accessed on September 18, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law and International Law
personal data
SURNAME Safferling, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Safferling, Christoph JM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Alzenau-Wasserlos , Lower Franconia