Rate My Professor Klaus Hoffmann-Holland

Klaus Hoffmann-Holland is University Professor holding the chair of Criminology and Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin, since March 2008. Born in 1971, he studied law at the universities of Saarbrücken, Marburg, and Gießen, completed his Referendariat in Mainz, passed his First Legal State Examination in 1998 with very good grades, earned his Dr. iur. in 2000 summa cum laude from Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen with the dissertation "Grenzen der Unfreiheit – Konturen der Versagungen aus Behandlungsgründen im Strafvollzug", obtained his Second Legal State Examination in 2006 with good grades, and completed his habilitation in 2005 at the same university with "Der Modellgedanke im Strafrecht – Eine kriminologische und strafrechtliche Analyse von Modellversuchen", receiving venia legendi for criminology, criminal law, juvenile justice, and corrections. Prior to Berlin, he worked as a scientific assistant, public prosecutor, and judge in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2013, he was appointed presiding judge at the Landgericht Berlin. He received calls to professorships at the Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei Münster, Hochschule Fulda (2007), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and Universität Bern (2012). He served as Vice President (2014-2018) and Executive Vice President (2018-2022) of Freie Universität Berlin, and as spokesperson (2014-2017) for the German-Israeli International Graduate College "Human Rights under Pressure – Ethics, Law, and Politics".

His academic interests include law and literature, law and emotions, general principles of criminal law, criminology, human rights, international criminal law, and criminology. Hoffmann-Holland has conducted teaching and research stays at the University of Warwick (2006), École normale supérieure Paris (2011, 2013), Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (2012), Université de Strasbourg (2013), and Donau-Universität Krems (2014); held visiting professorships at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010) and Nihon University Tokyo (2010); and served as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center Summer Law Programs in London (2010-2017) and Washington, D.C. (2016). He received the Dr.-Herbert-Stolzenberg-Preis in jurisprudence in 2005. Key publications are "Strafrecht, Allgemeiner Teil" (4th ed., UTB/Mohr Siebeck, 2023), "Strafrecht, Besonderer Teil" (ed., 2015), "Ethics and Human Rights in a Globalized World" (ed., 2009), his habilitation (2007), dissertation (2000), and commentaries including §§ 22-24 StGB (Münchener Kommentar zum StGB, 5th ed., 2024) and §§ 25-31 StGB (Kommentar zum Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, 3rd ed., 2024).