Michael Pawlik

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Michael Pawlik (born July 11, 1965 in Düsseldorf ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .

Life

From 1984 Pawlik studied law at the University of Bonn , where he passed his first state examination in 1989. This was followed by a year at the University of Cambridge , where he obtained the title Master of Laws in 1990 . He then returned to Germany to work as a doctoral student at Günther Jakobs' chair in Bonn. There he completed his doctorate in 1992, which was awarded the "Prize of the President of the Italian Republic for the best scientific work of the year at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Bonn" the following year. After completing his legal clerkship at the Düsseldorf Regional Court , he passed his second state examination in 1995. Afterwards he returned to the legal philosophy seminar in Bonn as a scientific assistant to Jakobs, where he subsequently worked on his habilitation. His activity was interrupted by a one-year research stay at the European University Institute in Florence . In January 1998 Pawlik completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law and criminal procedure law.

In the following years, Pawlik represented chairs at the universities of Würzburg , Regensburg and Rostock . From April 2000 he held his first full professorship in Rostock with the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law and legal philosophy. In the 2003/04 winter semester he turned down an offer from the University of Cologne and moved to Regensburg. There he was dean of the law faculty from 2009 to 2011. In April 2013, Pawlik switched to the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law and legal philosophy at the University of Freiburg , which he has held since then. In 2017 Michael Pawlik was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Michael Pawlik is married and has two children. He has also been a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 1991, with well over 150 articles.

Research profile

The focus of Pawlik's criminal law interests lies in the area of ​​fundamental questions of criminal law theory and general crime theory. Within the philosophy of law, his interests are, on the one hand, the period from the 17th to the 19th century with a special focus on the philosophy of German idealism and, on the other hand, current questions of justice and medical ethics.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Pure Legal Doctrine and HLA Harts' Legal Theory. A critical comparison. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-428-07638-3 . (Dissertation)
  • The unlawful behavior in fraud. Heymann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-452-24124-5 (Partly at the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation thesis, 1997–1998)
  • The justifying emergency. At the same time a contribution to the problem of criminal solidarity obligations. De Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-11-017364-2 .
  • Person, subject, citizen. To legitimize punishment. (= Writings on criminal law. Vol. 153). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-428-11542-6 .
  • The terrorist and his rights: on the legal-theoretical classification of modern terrorism (= writings of the Legal Study Society Regensburg eV, issue 31). Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57723-9 .
  • The citizen's injustice. Basics of General Criminal Doctrine. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-152189-8 .
  • Confirmation of norms and identity balance. About the legitimation of state penalties (= Würzburg lectures on legal philosophy, legal theory and legal sociology. Issue 53). Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-4521-0 .

literature

  • Inaugural address by Michael Pawlik at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences on January 26, 2019. In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2019. Heidelberg 2020, pp. 161–166 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Michael Pawlik at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on December 8, 2017.


personal data
SURNAME Pawlik, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf