Florian Jeßberger

Florian Jeßberger (* 1971 in Mannheim ) is a German lawyer and university professor .

Life

After graduating from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg in 1990 , Jeßberger studied law and political science in Saarbrücken , London and Cologne . In 1995 he passed his first state examination in Cologne . Parallel to his legal clerkship in Berlin, where he passed his second state examination in 2000, Jeßberger was a research assistant at Thomas Weigend in Cologne from 1995 to 1998 , where he obtained his doctorate in 1999. He then worked as a research assistant to Gerhard Werle at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 2007 . There he completed his habilitation in 2008. He held the Lichtenberg Professorship of the Volkswagen Foundation several times.

From 2007 to 2010 Jeßberger held the professorship for international criminal law and comparative criminal law in Berlin. Since then he has been working in Hamburg, initially as holder of the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law, international criminal law and contemporary legal history as well as director of the department for international criminal law and comparative criminal law, from 2012 to 2014 also as managing director of the Institute for Criminal Science. Since 2013 he has also been Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching and Head of the Examinations Office.

Florian Jeßberger is married and has three children.

Works (selection)

• Cooperation and sentencing . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-428-09878-1 . (Dissertation)
• The transnational scope of German criminal law. Basics and limits of the validity of German criminal law for offenses with international contact . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150223-1 . (Habilitation)

In addition, there are comments such as the one in the Leipziger Commentary and numerous articles in specialist journals such as From the Duty of the State to Investigate Human Rights Violations, in: Kritische Justiz 1996, pp. 290–306 or From the origins of an “ International Economic Criminal Law”: IG Farben in front of court , in: Juristenteitung (JZ) 2009, pp. 924–932.

Web links

• Jeßberger on the website of the Institute for Criminal Sciences at the University of Hamburg