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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Kubiciel

Chairholder | Dean of Studies | Executive Director of the Institute for Comprehensive Criminal Law Studies | Honorary Doctor (USP, Peru) Chair of German, European and International Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Medical and Business Criminal Law
Faculty of Law
Phone: +49 821 598-4561
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Room: 2036 (H)
Address: Universitätsstraße 24, 86159 Augsburg
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German and European Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Legal Philosophy, and Comparative Criminal Law

 

Research Areas

  • Foundations of Criminal Law (criminal law theory, constitutional principles of criminal law, history of ideas)
  • Special Part of Criminal Law
  • Corporate and Economic Criminal Law in its International Dimensions
  • Medical Criminal Law
  • Sports Criminal Law

Curriculum/Vitae

Professional Career

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Personal

Married to a judge; two children.

Roles in University Self-Governance

Since 2019:   Member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Law, University of Augsburg

2017 bis

Oct. 2021:   Member of the Examination Committee Faculty of Law, University of Augsburg

2016-2017: Member of the Study Advisory Board, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne
2015-2017: Student Liaison Lecturer (Student Liaison Lecturer), University of Cologne

Awards

2016: Award of an Honorary Doctorate by the Universidad San Pedro, Chimbote, Peru

2012: Habilitation Prize of the University of Regensburg

2011: Award for Excellence in Teaching (Freistaat Bayern)

Expert Opinions, Legal Assessments, and Advisory Work

Prof. Kubiciel regularly prepares legal opinions for governmental institutions and private actors

 

  • Evaluation of legislation commissioned by the German Bundestag
  • Regular expert witness before the Legal Affairs Committee and other committees of the German Bundestag
  • Expert advisor to various state parliaments in Germany
  • National Research Correspondent on corruption for the European Commission
  • Advisory work for GRECO (Council of Europe) and UNODC
  • Legal opinions and advisory services for companies, associations, and professional bodies, including:
  • German Football League (DFL) – §§ 265c, 265d German Criminal Code; offences in stadiums
  • Marburger Bund – § 5c IfSG
  • Pharmaceutical company – § 299a German Criminal Code
  • Donum Vitae – German Genetic Diagnostics Act (SchKG)
  • Die Familienunternehmer e.V. – comparative legal study
  • European clothing company – subsidy fraud
  • Beverage corporation – cartel offence
  • Automotive company – § 353d German Criminal Code; foreign criminal procedure law
  • Sports betting provider – international and European criminal law
  • Start‑up – copyright and licensing infringements
  • State ministry – § 218a German Criminal Code
  • FinTech company – regulatory issues under the German Anti‑Money Laundering Act (GwG)
  • Regional healthcare provider – scope of advance healthcare directives
  • Energy park operator – applicability of corruption offences
  • Physician – economic efficiency review and professional/criminal law
  • Representation of various CEOs in criminal proceedings and as counsel in internal investigations
  • Multiple representations before the Federal Constitutional Court (for parliamentary groups and complainants)
  • Project reviewer for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  • Peer reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Publications

List of Publications

 

Editorial Activities

  • Regular Contributor to Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht (since 2022)
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Cammino Diritto (Italy) (since 2022)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Magazine for Sports Law and eSports Practice (since 2021)
  • Co‑Founder of the book series Unternehmensstrafrechtliche Tage (Corporate Criminal Law Days), Nomos Publishing (since 2020)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Kriminalpolitische Zeitschrift (Criminal Policy Journal) (since 2016)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the German‑Chinese Journal of Criminal Law (since 2016)
  • Co‑Editor of the series German, European and International Business Criminal Law, Nomos Publishing (since 2016)
  • Co‑Editor of the series Foundations of Criminal Law Scholarship, Nomos Publishing (co‑founder 2014)
  • Former Co‑Editor of the series Kölner Kriminalwissenschaftliche Schriften (Cologne Criminal Law Studies), Duncker & Humblot (2013–2019)
  • Former Editor of the Juris Praxis Report on Criminal Law (2016–2020)

 

 

 

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