Jan Zopfs

Jan Zopfs (born May 7, 1964 in Osnabrück ) is a German criminal lawyer and university professor .

Life

Zopfs studied law from 1984 to 1989 in Heidelberg . In 1993 he received his doctorate there with a traffic criminal law topic at the chair of Wilfried Küper. In 1999 Zopfs completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (qualification to teach criminal law, criminal procedure law and criminal law history). After a substitute for a professorship in Rostock and a call to a C3 professorship in Leipzig, he has held the chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz since 2001 . His research areas are in traffic law and criminal law history. Until 2012, Zopfs was the liaison lecturer of the Mainz scholarship holders of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst , since 2009 he has been a member of the ethics committee of the State Medical Association of Rhineland-Palatinate, and since 2012 deputy chairman of the ethics committee.

Works (selection)

• Escape from an accident with clear liability situation ?: Immediate requirement and option in § 142 Paragraph 2 and 3 StGB . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-631-46319-2 . (Dissertation)
• The principle »in dubio pro reo« - on the history of origin and the current area of ​​application of the principle of doubt, in particular its validity in the case of findings that are significant in terms of procedural law . Baden-Baden 1999. (Habilitation)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Zopf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jan Zopfs at the University of Mainz