Georg Steinberg

Georg Steinberg (* 1974 in Waibstadt ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Potsdam .

Life

After high school and basic military service , Steinberg began studying musicology and law at the University of Heidelberg in 1995 . In 2001 he passed his first state examination in law. Subsequently, he took up a doctoral degree at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , which he achieved in 2004 with the doctoral degree to the doctorate supervised by Hinrich Rüping . iur. completed. From 2005 he completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal , which he completed in 2005 with the second state examination. Steinberg then worked as Rüping's research assistant at the University of Hanover . Steinberg completed his habilitation there in 2008 and received the Venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure law, commercial criminal law and legal philosophy. From October 2007 Steinberg also worked as a lawyer in a Berlin law firm. He has been of counsel there since 2010 .

After a substitute for a professorship at the University of Münster and a lectureship at the University of Passau , Steinberg accepted a professorship for criminal law and criminal procedure law from the University of Cologne in 2009 . In 2012 he moved to the chair of the same name at the EBS University of Economics and Law in Wiesbaden. Since 2016 he has held the full chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Potsdam .

Works (selection)

Steinberg's main research areas are substantive criminal law, commercial criminal law and the history and philosophy of criminal law.

• Christian Thomasius as a natural law teacher . Heymanns, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-452-25903-5 (dissertation).
• Applied legal methodology for beginners: explained using examples from criminal law . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55345-9 .
• Judicial power and individual freedom. An approach to general process theory . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-465-03675-3 (habilitation thesis).
• Punishment for being scared to death. Mental health as a criminal legal asset . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1797-2 .

Web links

• Steinberg at his chair at the University of Potsdam
• Author profile at Beck-Verlag
• Steinberg at Paschke & Partner Rechtsanwälte