Keiichi Yamanaka

Keiichi Yamanaka (born March 16, 1947 in Osaka ) is a Japanese law scholar and professor at Kansai University .

Life

Yamanaka studied from 1966 to 1970 law at Kansai University in Osaka , where he made 1972 his Master of Law ( Shushi ). In 1975 he achieved a doctorate ( Hakase ) at the University of Kyoto . Yamanaka then worked as a lecturer in Osaka. In 1978 he became an associate professor there, and in 1985 he was given a scheduled full professorship at the Kansai University of Osaka. Numerous research stays in Germany followed, including at the universities of Munich , Cologne , Tübingen , Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen . From 1996 to 1998 he was dean of the Faculty of Law at Osaka University, and from 1997 to 2000 he was head of the Criminal Law Society of Japan. In 1999 he received his doctorate in Kyoto. iur. From 2001 to 2012 he was also a lecturer in criminal procedural law at the Kinki Region Police Academy .

Honors

• 2007: Honorary doctorate from the University of Białystok (Poland)
• 2009: Honorary doctorate from the University of Huánuco (Peru)
• 2014: Honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen (Germany)
• 2014: Reimar Lüst Prize for international science and culture mediation from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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Yamanaka's research focus is primarily on the comparison of criminal law, especially the comparison of the criminal law of Germany and Austria with that of Japan. He is also the co-author of numerous standard textbooks on the general and specific parts of Japanese criminal law.

• Causality and imputation in criminal law . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 1984 (Japanese, title translated into German).
• Limits of Self-Defense . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 1985 (Japanese, title translated into German).
• Reflections on the Otsu Affair . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 1994 (Japanese, title translated into German).
• The doctrine of objective imputation in criminal law . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 1997 (Japanese, title translated into German).
• Studies on withdrawal from the attempt . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 2001 (Japanese, title translated into German).
• Criminal Law Dogmatics in the Japanese Risk Society . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3886-4 .
• Structure and function of the criminal offense doctrine . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 2010 (Japanese, title translated into German).
• History and Present of Japanese Criminal Law . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029872-7 .
• Medical Criminal Law, Vol. 1 (Introduction / Treatment Errors) . Seibundo-Verlag, Tokyo 2014 (Japanese, title translated into German).

literature

• Jan C. Joerden and Kurt Schmoller : Rule of law punishment: Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Keiichi Yamanaka's 70th birthday on March 16, 2017 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-14629-1 .

Web links

• Yamanaka at the Humboldt Foundation