Klaus Günther (lawyer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Klaus Günther (born February 26, 1957 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer . Since 1998 he has held the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law and legal theory at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He is considered an important representative of the so-called "third generation" of the Frankfurt School .

Life

Klaus Günther studied philosophy and law in Frankfurt am Main. In 1983 he passed the first state examination in law.

From 1983 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant and university assistant in Frankfurt am Main. During this time he worked from 1986 to 1997 in a working group funded by the DFG under the direction of Jürgen Habermas , in which the preliminary studies for his work "factuality and validity" were developed. He received his doctorate in 1987. Ten years later, Günther received the license to teach the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure law, criminology, and legal philosophy. Shortly afterwards, in 1998, he was offered the Frankfurt chair.

In 2007 Günther was the coordinator of the application for the establishment of a cluster of excellence The Formation of Normative Orders within the framework of the Excellence Initiative of the federal and state governments. Since November of the same year he has been co-spokesman for the cluster of excellence of the same name 243.

Günther has published with Rainer Forst and Axel Honneth, among others . His main research interests are in the discourse theory of law and the fundamental problems of criminal law .

Memberships

  • 1997–2001: Advisory Board for the Werner Reimers Conferences for innovative questions in science at the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg v. d. H.; Spokesman for the Program Advisory Board 1999–2001.
  • Since 1998: Board member of the German Section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy .
  • Since 2001: Research College at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main.
  • Since 2007: Fellow and member of the board of directors at the Human Sciences Research College at the Goethe University in Bad Homburg v. d. H.

Research stays

Fonts (selection)

  • The sense of appropriateness. Discourses of application in morality and law. Zugl .: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1987. Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt am Main. 1988. ISBN 3-518-57927-4
  • Guilt and communicative freedom. Studies on personal attribution of criminal injustice in a democratic constitutional state. Zugl .: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2004. Klostermann. Frankfurt am Main. 2005. ISBN 3-465-03378-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joel Anderson: The 'Third Generation' of the Frankfurt School
  2. Unless otherwise stated, the presentation of the curriculum vitae is based on the information on Günther's professional website at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
  3. Jürgen Habermas: factuality and validity. Contributions to the discourse theory of law and the democratic constitutional state . Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt am Main. 1998. stw 1361. ISBN 9783518289617 , page 14.
  4. ^ Günther, Klaus . In: Gerhard Köbler: Juristen (with reference to Kürschner , 2005). Without a date. Retrieved December 16, 2012.