Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf
Curriculum vitae
A-levels in Ansbach, followed by military service near Würzburg. Studied philosophy, modern history and law in Tübingen. Graduated in philosophy and history with a master's thesis on the "History of the development of parliamentary freedom of speech in Germany".
Doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on "Argumentation in Jurisprudence", doctorate in law with a study on "Criminal producer liability in the risk society". The thesis was honoured with the prize of the Reinhold and Maria Teufel Foundation. 1996 Habilitation in criminal law, criminal procedural law and philosophy of law with the publication "Zur Abgrenzung von Tatsachenaussagen und Werturteilen im Strafrecht".
Professor of criminal law and related subjects in Constance since summer term 1997. From winter semester 1998/99 Vice Dean and Dean of Studies, from winter semester 1999/2000 Dean in Constance. Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Theory, Information Law and Legal Informatics at the University of Würzburg since summer semester 2001. Prof Hilgendorf has been a member of theGlobal Faculty of Peking University Law School since summer 2018.
Memberships and activities
- 1993-1999 Supervision of the literature report in the Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy (ARSP)
- Member of the study committee of the Master's programme "Medical Ethics" at
Fern-Universität Hagen - Member of the Association of Teachers of Criminal Law
- Member of the Society for Analytical Philosophy
- Member of the German-American Lawyers' Association
- Member of the Working Group on Contemporary Legal History
- Member of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (member of the board since autumn 2006)
- Liaison lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation (2002-2006)
- Liaison lecturer of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2006-2009)
- Chairman of the Juristen Alumni Würzburg
Main areas of work
- Medical and bio-criminal law
- Bioethics
- Media criminal law, in particular computer and internet criminal law
- Protection of honour under criminal law (commentary on §§ 185 ff. StGB in the Leipzig Commentary, 12th edition, 2005 ff.)
- European criminal law
- History of law and philosophy of law
- Further publications deal with the protection of life under criminal law, the value judgement problem, questions of causality and other fundamental problems.
- Media didactics: Involvement in the Bavarian Virtual University (vhb) with various online courses on criminal law and criminal procedure law.
