Eric Hilgendorf

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Eric Hilgendorf (2011)

Eric Andreas Hilgendorf (born December 3, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and legal philosopher . He holds the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law, legal theory, information law and legal informatics at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

After graduating from high school in Ansbach in 1980, Hilgendorf studied philosophy , modern history , religious studies and law at the University of Tübingen . He completed the subjects of philosophy and history with a master's thesis on the "History of the Development of Parliamentary Freedom of Speech in Germany". The doctorate in philosophy took place in 1990 with a study on "Argumentation in Jurisprudenz". In 1992 he received his doctorate in law with a thesis on “ Criminal producer liability in risk society ”. In 1997 he qualified as a professor for the subjects of criminal law , criminal procedural law and legal philosophy with the text "On the delimitation of factual statements and value judgments in criminal law". After completing his habilitation in Tübingen, Hilgendorf was Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Konstanz from 1997 to 2001 , and from 1999 to 2001 at the same time as Dean . Since 2001 he has been teaching at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From October 2010 to September 2012 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg.

In 2019 Hilgendorf was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

activities

Hilgendorf's main areas of work are medical and organic criminal law, comparative law ( comparative law ) and digitization law, especially computer and internet criminal law . In addition, he is involved in the field of legal basic research ( philosophy of law , legal theory , bioethics Studies, History of legal thought and criminal legal history ) and the right teaching. Hilgendorf is one of the pioneers of e-learning in jurisprudence; 2005–2009 he was a member of the program committee of the Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb).

Hilgendorf is u. a. Member of the International Legal Commission, the German Association of Criminal Law Teachers , the Society for Analytical Philosophy , the Scientific Advisory Board of the Humanistic Academy Germany as well as the Giordano Bruno Foundation and correspondent of the Hans Kelsen Society (Vienna). He has advised the German Bundestag and the Federal Government several times on questions of medical criminal law, internet crime and digital transformation. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Hans Albert Institute since 2020.

With Jan C. Joerden (Frankfurt / Oder) and Felix Thiele (Bad Neuenahr / Ahrweiler) Hilgendorf was head of an international research group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld in 2009/2010 .

From 2008 to 2012 Hilgendorf was the spokesman for the Würzburg Center for Basic Legal Research. Together with other departments, he founded the Würzburg university project “Global Systems and Intercultural Competence” (GSIK) and was the project spokesperson for it from 2008 to 2014. This teaching project is about teaching students from all faculties the skills to act and want to act competently in an intercultural context. As a representative of his department in the GSIK project, Hilgendorf focuses on competencies to recognize, analyze and (ideally) solve intercultural conflicts as such. Closely related to this are numerous comparative law and international projects.

He is heavily involved in legal development partnerships with Turkey, Central Asia (especially Azerbaijan, Mongolia ) and East Asia (China, Korea, Japan). In 2013 Hilgendorf worked as a visiting professor at the Law Faculty of Peking University, where he was awarded an honorary professorship. In 2014 Hilgendorf was visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also maintains very close contacts with colleagues from Latin America and the USA, the latter especially in connection with digitization law.

In 2010 Hilgendorf founded the research center RobotRecht, which has meanwhile won several awards, in Würzburg, which deals with the legal questions of autonomous systems in industry, road traffic and private life. This includes questions of civil and criminal liability as well as questions of data protection and road traffic approval. In the research project "AdaptIVe", which has been funded by the EU since 2013, which deals with the development of automated vehicles, he is the head of the Europe-wide legal research group. Since 2014 Hilgendorf has been involved in the "round table" of the German Federal Ministry of Transport on automated driving. In 2016 he was appointed a member of the newly created ethics committee for automated driving.

Also in 2010, Hilgendorf and Genlin Liang (Peking University China) founded the Sino-German Criminal Law Teachers Association (CDSV), the aim of which is to promote academic exchange between the two countries. The association is now one of the best-known institutions for legal cooperation between Germany and China.

In February 2017, Hilgendorf was a founding advisory board of the Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht (ifw), which advocates secular legal policy.

Since June 2018 Hilgendorf has been a member of the newly created "High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence" of the EU.

Publications (a selection)

Monographs and textbooks:

  • Argumentation in jurisprudence. On the reception of analytical philosophy and critical theory in basic research in jurisprudence , Tübingen, Univ., Diss. 1990, Berlin 1991
  • The history of the development of parliamentary freedom of speech in Germany , Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Hans Albert for an introduction , Hamburg 1997
  • dtv-Atlas Recht, Vol. 1: Basics, State Law, Criminal Law , Munich 2003, 2nd edition 2008, 3rd edition 2012
  • dtv-Atlas Recht, Vol. 2: Administrative Law, Civil Law , Munich 2008
  • Computer and Internet criminal law. Ein Grundriss , 2nd edition Berlin 2012 (together with Brian Valerius )
  • Criminal law special part , 3rd edition Bielefeld 2015 (together with Gunther Arzt , Ulrich Weber and Bernd Heinrich)
  • Criminal Law General Part , 2nd Edition Munich 2015 (together with Brian Valerius)
  • Medical criminal law. Basic legal and ethical questions , Munich 2016

Editorial activity:

  • Scientific humanism. Texts on the moral and legal philosophy of early logical empiricism , Freiburg 1998
  • German-language criminal law studies in self-portrayals , Berlin 2010
  • East Asian Criminal Law , Tübingen 2010
  • Festschrift for Wolfgang Heinz on his 70th birthday, Baden-Baden 2012 (together with Rudolf Rengier)
  • Handbook of Legal Philosophy, Stuttgart Verlag 2016 (together with Jan Joerden)
  • Autonomous Systems and New Mobility, Baden-Baden 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Humanist Academy of Bavaria: About Us ( Memento from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Board of Directors - Hans Albert Institute. Retrieved on February 23, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ J. Bienzeisler, C. Cousin, V. Deschamps, U. Eberle, J. Feldle, E. Hilgendorf et al .: Legal Aspects on Automated Driving . Ed .: AdaptIVe consortium. June 2017 ( online ).
  4. ^ Eric Hilgendorf: Homepage of the Chinese-German Criminal Law Teachers Association. In: Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Faculty of Law, Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Legal Theory, Information Law and Legal Informatics. Eric Hilgendorf, Genlin Liang, August 1, 2010, accessed on June 24, 2018 (German, 中文).
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf | ifw - Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  6. ^ High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. In: https://ec.europa.eu . European Commission, June 14, 2018, accessed June 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hilgendorf, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilgendorf, Eric Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer (criminal law and criminal procedure law)
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart