Karsten Altenhain

Karsten Altenhain (* 1962 in Wuppertal ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Life and work

In 1982 Altenhain began studying law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He later moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1988 he completed his studies with the first state examination in law. He passed his examination at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . He passed his second state examination in law in 1993 at the State Justice Examination Office in Düsseldorf. In the same year he did his doctorate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn with the subject "The criminal liability of the participant in excess", while he was a judgeDistrict Court Bonn was. The Ernst and Anna Landsberg Foundation supported his dissertation with a doctoral scholarship.

In 2000 he completed his habilitation at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on the subject of "The Anschlussdelikt " and received the license to teach in the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure law and media law. He was then a professor at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Technical University of Dresden . Altenhain has been a university professor at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf since the 2002/03 winter semester and holds the chair for criminal law, commercial criminal law and media law. In addition, he has been managing director of the Center for Information Law since 2003 and was dean of the law faculty at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf from April 2014 to March 2016 .

In November 2012 Altenhain published the results of a study that he had carried out on behalf of the Federal Constitutional Court . It was about compliance with statutory agreements in criminal proceedings . He interviewed 330 judges , public prosecutors and defense lawyers from North Rhine-Westphalia . According to the study, almost 60% of the judges make the majority of their agreements without the required logging. According to this, only around a quarter (28%) of the judges check whether the negotiated confession is credible.

Altenhain is married and has one son.

Publications (selection)

Fonts

• The connection offense. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147635-2 .
• Torture in court. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0056-0 .
• The history of torture since its abolition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-863-8 .
• With Heribert Hirte (Ed.): Cologne Commentary on the WpHG. Heymann, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-452-26187-8 .
• With Heribert Hirte (Ed.): Cologne Commentary on WpÜG. Heymann, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-452-27045-0 .
• The practice of collusion in white collar crime proceedings. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2677-9 .
• With Alexander Roßnagel (ed.): Law of multimedia services. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-44463-0 .
• The participant's liability for excess. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-47358-3 .
• The return of torture? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0008-9 .

Essays

• With Ansgar Heitkamp : Current developments in youth media protection law. In: NJW . Munich 2010, pp. 16-18.
• With Ansgar Heitkamp: Age verification using the electronic identity card. In: K&R . Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 619-625.
• Attacking and defending accessory charges. In: JZ . Tübingen 2001, pp. 791-801.
• With Michael Haimerl : The legal regulation of understanding in criminal proceedings - a refused reform. In: JZ. Tübingen 2010, 327–337.
• The involvement of another gang member. In: ZStW . Berlin 2001, pp. 112-145.
• The new regulation of market price manipulation by the Fourth Financial Market Promotion Act. In: BB . Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 1874–1879.
• To breach the legal force of the revision which is inadmissible according to § 55 II JGG. In: NStZ . Munich 2007, pp. 283–285.
• The punishable false balance sheet oath. In: WM . Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 1141–1147.
• The criminal abuse of card-based electronic payment systems. In: JZ. Tübingen 1997, pp. 752-760.
• The criminal responsibility for the distribution of disapproved content on computer networks. In: CR . Cologne 1997, 485-496.
• The realization of several alternative offenses - individual crime or ideal competition? In: ZStW. Berlin 1995, pp. 382-401.
• The connection between the basic offense and serious consequences in the offenses that qualify for success. In: GA . Munich 1996, pp. 19-36.

Comments

• Sections 1–8, 105–106 JGG. In: Munich Commentary on the Criminal Code . 1st edition. Munich 2006.
• Preliminary remark to §§ 7ff. StGB. In: Munich Commentary on the Criminal Code. 1st edition. Munich 2010.
• Section 206 of the Criminal Code. In: Munich Commentary on the Criminal Code. 1st edition. Munich 2003.
• §§ 257–261 StGB. In: Nomos Commentary. 3. Edition. Baden-Baden 2010.
• Section 148 TKG. In: Munich Commentary on the Criminal Code. 1st edition. Munich 2010.
• §§ 3, 7-10 TMG. In: Munich Commentary on the Criminal Code. 1st edition. Munich 2010.
• Sections 1–3, 5–28 Assembly Act. In: Munich Commentary on the Criminal Code. 1st edition. Munich 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karsten Altenhain in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chair of Criminal Law, Commercial Criminal Law and Media Law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ The connection offense. CH Beck, accessed October 22, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Lorenz: Law Faculty: New chair appointed. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, October 11, 2002, archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; Retrieved October 22, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Altenhain: The Anschlussdelikt. 2002, p. IV.
4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Karsten Altenhain - Vita. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, accessed on October 22, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Well-known lecturers from science and practice. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 23, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Press release No. 71/2012 - Oral hearing in the matter of "Agreements in criminal proceedings". Federal Constitutional Court, October 4, 2012, accessed November 8, 2012 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Neumeyer: BVerfG clearly criticizes the “deal” in criminal proceedings. German Press Agency, November 7, 2012, accessed on November 8, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Janisch: Many judges fiddle on criminal past. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 2, 2012, accessed on November 8, 2012 .