Abteilung für Kriminologie, Jugendstrafrecht und Strafvollzug
Lehrstuhl für Strafrecht und Kriminologie

Prof. Dr. Alexander Baur, M.A., B.Sc. (Psych.)

Chairholder

Alexander Baur is Director of the Department of Criminology, Juvenile Criminal Law and Penology and holds the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Göttingen. Since 2025, he is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law.

His research focuses on the law of sanctions and enforcement (in particular the law on measures of reform and prevention), including its empirical references, the law of corporate sanctions, including procedural references and criminological foundations (white-collar crime), as well as general crime prevention law. In addition, there is a focus on law-related evaluation research.

In addition to his membership at the Institute of Criminal Law and Justice, Alexander Baur is also a member of the Center for Medical Law and the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig).

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025

  • Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law

since 2024

  • Secondary member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen

since 2023

  • Director of the Department of Criminology, Juvenile Criminal Law and Penology at the University of Göttingen

  • Holder of the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology and member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen

2024–2025
Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the University of Göttingen
2021–2022
Senior Researcher for Criminal Law, Procedural Law and Corrections at the Department of Justice and Home Affairs of the Canton of Zurich
2017–2020
Assistant Professor for Criminal Law at the University of Hamburg
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2016–2017
Lawyer at the Stuttgart Office of the law firm Gleiss Lutz
2015
Second State Exam (bar exam) in Baden-Württemberg
2013–2015
Legal clerkship at the District Court in Tübingen
2008–2013
Assistant at the Chair for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Tübingen, (Prof. Dr. J. Kinzig) as well as the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen
2003–2008
Teaching Assistant at the Institute for General Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. J. Knape)
since 2018
Habilitation at the University of Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. M. Kubiciel) with a thesis on criminal law dogmatics (mistake of law)
2011–2014
Doctorate in criminal law with a doctoral dissertation on criminology and sanctions (supervision of conduct)
University of Tübingen Dissertation Award 2015 and Prize of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Foundation 2015
2011–2014
Second major in psychology (B.Sc.) at the University of Konstanz
2002–2008
Attended Law School with a double major in law and rhetorics (M.A.) and a minor in psychology at the University of Tübingen as well as the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires
2001
Abitur at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Böblingen