Gerhard Werle

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Gerhard Werle (born March 11, 1952 in Mannheim ) is a German law scholar and university professor. He holds the chair for German and international criminal law , criminal procedural law and contemporary legal history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was director of the South African-German Center for Transnational Criminal Justice, a DAAD- funded cooperation of the Humboldt University from 2008 to 2018 Berlin and the University of the Western Cape , Cape Town (South Africa). Since 2019 he has been director of the newly founded and DAAD- funded African-German Research Network for Transnational Criminal Justice.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1970, Werle studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen . After the first and second state examinations (1975 in Heidelberg and 1977 in Stuttgart ), he was from 1978 to 1981 a research assistant at the chair for criminal law of Karl Lackner in Heidelberg. In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate degree with a dissertation on the subject of “The competition in long-term offenses, continuation offenses and prolonged violations of the law”. iur. ”. From 1982 to 1989 Werle worked as a criminal defense attorney and from 1983 to 1989 he was a research assistant at Thomas Hillenkamp's chair in Heidelberg. In 1988, after completing his habilitation with a thesis on “Judicial criminal law and the fight against crime in the Third Reich”, he was appointed private lecturer. From 1989 to 1993 Werle was Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . Since 1993 he has held the chair for German and international criminal law, criminal procedure law and contemporary legal history at the Humboldt University in Berlin (until 2003: chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law and contemporary legal history).

Werle has made several academic stays abroad, including a .: University of Cape Town in Cape Town (1993), DAAD foreign professorship at the Law Faculty of the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town (1997/98), visiting professor at Kansai University in Osaka (2004), University of the Western Cape (2005), University of Sydney (2006), Columbia Law School (2008).

Werle has been a member of the Expert Committee for International Humanitarian Law of the German Red Cross since 1998, since 2006 Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and since 2009 Honorary Professor at the University of Northwest China in Xi'an .

Werle was a consultant for the German Bundestag's study commission on “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity” (1997) and a member of the “International Criminal Code” working group at the Federal Ministry of Justice (1999 to 2001). In 2005 he received the Humboldt Research Award South Africa.

Werle has been the director of the DAAD- funded African-German Research Network for Transnational Criminal Justice since 2019 . The network continues the work of the South African-German Center for Transnational Criminal Justice and is mainly concerned with an in-depth scientific discussion of the topic of international criminal law .

Publications (selection)

  • Germany and international criminal law: contemporary historical perspectives in: Florian Jeßberger / Julia Geneuss (eds.), Ten Years of the International Criminal Code. Balance sheet and perspectives of a “German international criminal law”, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2013, pp. 23–33.
  • International criminal law. With the collaboration of Boris Burghardt, Florian Jeßberger, Volker Nerlich, Paul Christoph Bornkamm and Petra Viebig. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012.
  • The future of international criminal law. In: Stefan Grundmann / Michael Kloepfer / Christoph G.Paulus / Rainer Schröder / Gerhard Werle (eds.): Festschrift 200 Years of the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. History, present, future. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, pp. 1219-1239.
  • The prosecution of injustice in the GDR. Facts and figures (together with Klaus Marxen and Petra Schäfter). Foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship, Berlin 2007.
  • Auschwitz in court. Genocide and Federal German Criminal Justice. With a documentation of the Auschwitz judgment. (together with Thomas Wandres). CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-37489-1 .
  • Judicial criminal law and the police fight against crime in the Third Reich. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989. (Habilitation)
  • The competition in long-term offenses, continuation offenses and prolonged violations of the law (= criminal law treatises. Volume 42). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 22nd edition (2009), Vol. 4, p. 4548.
  2. ↑ People. In: African-German Research Network for Transnational Criminal Justice. Retrieved on February 22, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ People. In: African-German Research Network for Transnational Criminal Justice. Retrieved on February 22, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Humboldt University of Berlin (PDF; 293 kB), accessed on May 21, 2013.
  5. ^ Research Network. In: African-German Research Network for Transnational Criminal Justice. Retrieved on February 22, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Table of contents, excerpt
personal data
SURNAME Werle, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim