Kai Ambos

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Kai Ambos (born March 29, 1965 in Heidelberg ) holds the chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law, comparative law, international criminal law and international law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He is the author and editor of numerous publications on German and international criminal and criminal procedure law as well as international criminal law .

Life

After studying law and political science in Freiburg im Breisgau , Oxford and Munich , Ambos passed his first state examination in Munich in 1990. For his doctorate on "Drug control and its problems in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia" with Horst Schüler-Springorum at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he received the "Law and Development" award from the Herbert Krüger Foundation for Overseas Constitutional Comparisons in October 1997 Ambos passed his second state examination in law in 1994.

He then worked as a research assistant for international criminal law and Hispanic America at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and as a research assistant at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg at Albin Eser's chair .

This was followed by his habilitation at the LMU Munich with Profs. Volk and Simma in the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure law, criminology, comparative law and international law in the summer semester 2001 with a thesis on the “General Part of International Criminal Law”.

Initially employed as a substitute for a professorship in Freiburg, he followed the call of the University of Göttingen at the beginning of 2003, where he is now professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law, comparative law, international criminal law and international law. He declined a simultaneous call to the University of Graz (Austria).

Kai Ambos has been a judge at the Göttingen Regional Court since March 24, 2006 . From January 1, 2015 to September 30, 2015, he was seconded as a judge at the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court.

Ambos was a member of Mladen Markač's defense team at the appeal hearing in the Gotovina et al. before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which ended in November 2012 with an acquittal for those sentenced to long prison terms in the lower court.

In 2013 Ambos received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana for his services to “Latin American and especially Peruvian criminal law and criminal procedure law as well as his commitment to judicial reforms in Peru and other Latin American countries” .

In January 2014, a “Research Center for Latin American Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law” (Spanish abbreviation CEDPAL) was set up at Ambos' chair. The research center is supported by a scientific advisory board and has its own special library with around 16,000 titles.

Ambos sees the fact that Ecuador used its embassy in London to protect Julian Assange from criminal prosecution as a violation of international law.

In the debate about the not only politically but also legally correct name for the genocide of the Armenians , Ambos pointed out that it was difficult to prove the intent to destroy, which is constitutive for genocide .

He has been a judge at the Kosovo Special Tribunal in The Hague since February 7, 2017 . On December 6, 2017, Kai Ambos was appointed advisor ( Amicus Curiae ) of the Colombian special justice system for peace in a competitive selection process .

On September 17, 2018 he received the “Orden Carlos Lemos Simmonds” award for his commitment to the Colombian peace process .

Publications (selection)

  • The general part of international criminal law - approaches to dogmatization, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, 2nd unchanged new edition 2004 ISBN 3-428-10762-4 .
  • La Parte General del Derecho Penal Internacional - Bases para una elaboración dogmática, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Programa de Estado de Derecho, Montevideo, Uruguay and Temis, Bogotá 2005 ISBN 9974-7868-5-1 .
  • International criminal law - the application of criminal law, international criminal law, European criminal law, CH Beck, 2006 ISBN 3-406-54163-1 ; 2nd edition 2008, 3rd edition 2011.
  • Evidence prohibitions. Basics and case studies - international references - selected problems. Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2010, 171 pp.
  • Is the development of a common substantive criminal law for Europe possible? Some preliminary reflections. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 12 (2005), 173-190.
  • International Criminal Procedure: "Adversarial", "Inquisitorial" or mixed? International Criminal Law Review 3 (2003), 1-37.
  • Public prosecutor's control of the police, verpolizeilichung the investigation and organized crime. Jura 25 (2003), 67-682.
  • Freedom in being as part of the personality and basis of criminal guilt. On the doctrine of guilt by Jorge de Figueiredo Dias. GA 2009, 561-585.
  • What does 'intent to destroy' in genocide mean? International Review of the Red Cross 91 (2009), 833-858.
  • Terrorismo, tortura y Derecho penal. Respuestas en situaciones de emergencia. Barcelona (Atelier) 2009, 135 pp. y Bogotá (Universidad Externado de Colombia), 2009, 129 pp.
  • The Colombian Peace Process and the Principle of Complementarity of the International Criminal Court, Berlin et al. (Springer) 2010, 161 pp.
  • Fundamentos y ensayos criticos de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal. Palestra Editores, Lima 2010, ISBN 978-612-4047-21-3 .
  • Transnational Obtaining Evidence - 10 Theses on the EU Commission's Green Paper “Obtaining usable evidence in criminal matters from another Member State”, ZIS 2010, 557-566.
  • The Fujimori Judgment: A President's Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity as Indirect Perpetrator by Virtue of an Organized Power Apparatus. JICJ 9: 137-158 (2011).
  • Derecho procesal penal contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica (Editorial Jurídica Continental) 2011, 263 pp.
  • The Crime of Aggression after Kampala. German Yearbook of International Law 53 (2010), 2011, 463–509.
  • To "organization" in the case of organizational rule. In: Heinrich / Jäger / Achenbach et al. (Ed.), Criminal Law as Scientia Universalis, Festschrift for Claus Roxin, 2011, Volume 1, 837–852.
  • The Iraq War and International Law. (Ed. Together with Jörg Arnold ), Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8305-0559-0 .
  • National Socialist Criminal Law: Continuity and Radicalization . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019 ISBN 978-3-8487-5631-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Case Information Sheet Gotovina et al. (IT-06-90) "Operation Storm" (PDF, English; 148 kB)
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorate for lawyers from Göttingen. Press release from December 10, 2013 at the Science Information Service (idw-online)
  3. ^ Announcement about the establishment of CEDPAL at Cooperation International
  4. ↑ Homepage of CEDPAL
  5. ↑ Kai Ambos: With unfair means. In: FAZ.net . August 22, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kai Ambos: Genocide against the Armenians? In: FAZ.net . April 29, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ambos, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg