Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Günther Jakobs

Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn, em.

Curriculum Vitae

Günther Jakobs studied law in Cologne, Kiel and Bonn, obtained his doctorate degree in 1967 from the University of Bonn and wrote his habilitation treatise there under Hans Welzel in 1971 on “Studien zum fahrlässigen Erfolgsedikt”. In the same year, he was called to the University of Kiel, in 1976 he became professor at the University of Regensburg. From 1986 up to his attainment of emeritus status in 2002, Günther Jakobs taught and researched at the University of Bonn, where he was director of the Legal-Philosophical Seminary, as well as co-director of the Institute for Criminal Law.

Günther Jakobs is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft (ZStW). Furthermore, he is a member of the Bavarian and North Rhine Westphalian Academy of Science.

Publikations (selected)

• System der strafrechtlichen Zurechnung (Volume 2 of the publication series “Law as Culture” (“Reht als Kultur”), edited by Werner Gephart, 2012)
• Staatliche Strafe – Bedeutung und Zweck,Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 2004
• Tötung auf Verlangen, Euthanasie und Strafrechtssystem, München 1998
• Norm, Person, Gesellschaft – Vorüberlegungen zu einer Rechtsphilosophie, Berlin 1997, 2. ed. 1999
• Die strafrechtliche Zurechnung von Tun und Unterlassen, Paderborn 1996