Claus Roxin
Claus Roxin ( born May 15, 1931 in Hamburg ) is a German legal scholar. He is considered one of the most influential dogmatists of criminal law and enjoys a national and international reputation. A total of 20 universities have awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Life
Claus Roxin was born in 1931 as the son of Hans and Charlotte Roxin in Hamburg, where he spent the school.
After completing his studies ( 1950-1954 ) at the University of Hamburg Roxin worked as a research assistant at the chair of Professor Heinrich Henkel, where he habilitated in 1962 with the study perpetration and over the infringement. Doctorate he had in 1957 on the subject of open situations and legal duty features.
At the age of 32 years Roxin in 1963 professor at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen in the year. In 1966 he participated in the preparation and presentation of so-called alternative draft of the General Part of the German Penal Code. This - for that time liberal and innovative - design shaped the West German criminal law shall prevail. Roxin was also co-author of an alternative design for the Special Part of the Penal Code, which was published in four volumes from 1968 to 1971.
Then looked Roxin with a working group of German and Swiss criminal law teacher who earned the 1973 alternative draft of a penal law in the jurisprudential discussion. Published in 1980, the working group an alternative draft Code of Criminal Procedure. Roxin was also involved in this design. ( See also: Large Criminal Law Reform)
In 1971 Roxin was changed from Göttingen to the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich. There, he taught and conducted research 28 years as Professor of Criminal Law and general legal theory. Since 1974 he was managing director of the Institute for the entire criminal justice sciences. Roxin emeritus in 1999.
By guest appearances in the television series How would you decide? Roxin became known in the 1970s to a wider audience.
Roxin is co-editor of the journal for the entire criminal jurisprudence and the New Journal of Criminal Law. Since 1994 he is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Privately, Roxin engaged in the co-founders of the Karl-May -Gesellschaft. 28 years, from 1971 to 1999, he was Chairman of the Company. He was appointed an honorary chairman in 1999.
Roxin is married, has three children and lives in village Stock.
Work
Roxins work includes a number of monographs and a variety of essays, judgment notes and essays. Indicative of Roxins influence on the German criminal law is the enduring interest in his writings, which are among the standard works of the German criminal law doctrine. His habilitation thesis perpetration over the infringement and appears as a classic of the general criminal law doctrine forty-four years after it was first written in 2006 in the 8th edition. The study book acquired by him in 1967 for criminal law last appeared in 2012 in the 27th edition.
His most important works include:
- Open situations and legal duty features. 2nd edition. Publisher Cram, de Gruyter & Co., Hamburg 1970.
- Perpetration and over the infringement. 8th edition. De Gruyter Verlag, Hamburg, 2006.
- Criminal Law, General Part, Volume I: Basics. The structure of the crime theory. 4th edition. C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2006.
- Criminal Law, General Part, Volume II: Specific manifestations of the offense. C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich 2003.
- Karl May, the criminal law and literature. inter alia, in: Yearbook of the Karl-May -Gesellschaft in 1978, pp. 9-36. For further publications of this article see here.
Awards and honors
Honorary doctorates
Claus Roxin received from 20 universities the honorary doctorate awarded:
Other awards and honors
Claus Roxin since 1994 winner of the Honorary Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort and since 2000 of the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class.
There were also on 19 May 2000 an Honorary Professor at the Universidad de Lima, Peru, in 2002, the ceremony Beccaria Gold Medal and the Max Friedlaender - Award 2007 of the Bavarian Bar Association.