Markus D. Dubber
Markus Dirk Dubber (born February 7, 1966 ) is a German-American legal scholar . He is Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Toronto .
life and work
Markus Dirk Dubber studied at Harvard (BA 1988) and Stanford (JD 1991) universities .
He taught for several years at the State University of New York at Buffalo , where he headed the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, among other things.
He then became professor of law and criminology at the University of Toronto, where he is also director of the interdisciplinary Center for Ethics .
As an author and editor, he published over twenty books and eighty writings. His work has appeared in English and German and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Research priorities
Dubber is particularly concerned with the theoretical, historical and philosophical foundations of criminal law , often from a comparative legal perspective.
Due to his German origins, he has dealt in depth with German criminal law in the past and repeatedly contrasted it with Anglo-American criminal law .
His latest project is ethical issues related to artificial intelligence and the normative dimensions of the global AI revolution for private, public and political life. He is the founder and director of the interdisciplinary Ethics of AI Lab at the University of Toronto, with which he wants to advance and promote the academic and public discourse on ethics and thereby bring all disciplines - especially the humanities - together in context.
Publications (selection)
- Introduction to US Criminal Law. CH Beck, 2005, ISBN 3406530427 .
- with Tatjana Hörnle : Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach. Oxford University Press , 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-958960-9 .
- with Tatjana Hörnle: The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law. Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-967359-9 .
- The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-874429-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Markus D. Dubber in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d University of Toronto, Faculty of Law: Markus Dubber. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
- ^ U of T's Center for Ethics speeds ahead with popular 'ethics of AI' focus. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Ethics of AI Lab | Center for Ethics, University of Toronto. Retrieved March 8, 2020 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dubber, Markus D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dubber, Markus Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1966 |