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 Corrections and holds the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Göttingen.

Curriculum Vitae


  • since 2024: Secondary member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen
  • since 2024: Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the University of Göttingen
  • since 2023: Director of the Department of Criminology, Juvenile Criminal Law and Corrections at the University of Göttingen
  • since 2023: Holder of the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology and member of the Faculty of Law 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
  • seit 2018: Habilitation at the University of Augsburg (Prof. Dr. Dr. M. Kubiciel) with a thesis on criminal law dogmatics
  • 2017-2020: Assistant professor for Criminal Law at the University of Hamburg (positive evaluation)

  • 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

  • 2011-2014: Doctorate in criminal law with a doctoral dissertation on criminology and sanctions (University of Tübingen Dissertation Award 2015 and Prize of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Foundation 2015)
  • 2011-2014: Second major in psychology at the University of Konstanz
  • 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

  • 2008: University graduation (first State exam) in Baden-Württemberg
  • 2003-2008: Teaching Assistant at the Institute for General Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. J. Knape)
  • 2002-2008: Attended Law School with a double major in law and rhetorics 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



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