Kurt Seelmann (legal philosopher)

Kurt Seelmann (born June 12, 1947 in Berchtesgaden ) is a German legal philosopher and criminal lawyer.

Life

Kurt Seelmann studied law and philosophy in Munich and received his doctorate there in 1973 with a paper on Gustav Radbruch . From 1974 to 1978 he was a research assistant at Saarland University . In 1978 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the development of subjective law in late Spanish scholasticism and acquired the Venia Legendi for criminal law , criminal procedure law , legal philosophy and European legal history . Since then he has been Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy, initially in Saarbrücken , from 1983 to 1995 in Hamburg and since 1995 in Basel . The University of Budapest awarded him an honorary doctorate. Long stays abroad and visiting professorships led him to universities in Italy, England, the USA and Japan. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2011 .

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In his numerous historical, dogmatic and legal philosophy projects, Kurt Seelmann deals with the relationship between the individual and responsibility as well as with humanism .

In the history of law Kurt Seelmann has with its many contributions to the Spanish late scholasticism and the Enlightenment philosophy ( Gaetano Filangieri ) two key for the transformation of Western law periods under the magnifying glass taken. In the doctrine of criminal law , he has made significant contributions to omissions , emergencies and association punishments, among others. a. in his comments on the offense of omission, most recently in the Basel Commentary. In his legal philosophy , he mainly dealt with the legal philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the importance of human dignity for medical law and bioethical issues. His textbook on legal philosophy is u. a. has been translated into Italian, Korean and Russian.

Major works

• Socialism and social law in Gustav Radbruch , 1973.
• The teaching of Fernando Vazques de Menchaca on the Dominium , 1979.
• Philosophy of Law , 1994, 5th edition 2010.
• Theology and jurisprudence on the threshold of modernity. The Birth of Modern Natural Law in Late Iberian Scholasticism , 1997
• Le filosofie della pena di Hegel , a cura di Paolo Becchi, ( Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici , Hegeliana 35), 2002.
• Collective Responsibility in Criminal Law , 2002
• Kurt Seelmann / Paolo Becchi: Gaetano Filangieri and the European Enlightenment , 2000
• Kurt Seelmann (Ed.): Human dignity as a legal concept , 2004.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Seelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• balex.law