Prof. Dr. iur. Wolfgang Wohlers
About the Person
Born 1962 in Hamburg
Education
- WS 1983 - WS 1987 Law studies, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law I
- August 1987 Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
- 14 September 1988 1st state examination, Hamburg
- October 1991 - November 1994 Trainee lawyer at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court Hamburg
- 28 October 1992 Doctorate (Dr. iur.)
- 28 October 1994 2nd state examination, Hamburg
- 20 December 1994 Admission to the bar
- July 1999 Granting of teaching authorisation for the subjects of criminal law and criminal procedure law by the University of Basel
Work Experience
- October 1988 - October 1992 Research assistant at the Seminar for Criminal Law and Criminology of the Department of Law I of the University of Hamburg (Chair of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fezer)
- October 1992 - December 1993 as well as April 1994 - April 1995 Representation of the university assistant at the Seminar for Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law I of the University of Hamburg
- December 1994 - December 2000 Lawyer in Hamburg
- since April 1995 Assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bremen
- 1998 - 2001 Lecturer at the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie (specialist course in criminal law)
- Summer semester 1999 Substitute for the chair of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg
- July 1999 Appointment as private lecturer at the University of Basel
- Winter semester 1999/2000 and summer semester 2000 Representation of the Chair for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Technical University of Dresden
- 1 August 2000 Appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Technical University of Dresden
- Winter semester 2000/2001 Lectureship at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostock
- February 2001 Appointment as full professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich
- 2010 - 2012 Dean of the Faculty of Law Zurich
- Since 1.2.2015 Professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Basel
- Since 1.8.2019 Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel
Prof. Dr. iur. Wolfgang Wohlers
- since 2001 Co-editor of the series "Zürcher Studien zum Strafrecht"
- since 2002 Permanent contributor to the journal "Goltdammer's Archiv für Strafrecht"
- since 2002 Advisory board of the journal "Strafverteidiger"
- since 2004 Regular contributor to the Online Journal for Criminal Law HRRS
- since 2006 Co-editor of the series "Studies on criminal law", Nomos Verlag
- since 2006 Co-editor of the series "Neue Schriften zum Strafrecht", Nomos Verlag
- 2007 to 2011 Co-editor of the "Yearbook on Road Traffic Law"
- since 2008 Founder and co-editor of the magazine "forumpoenale"
- since 2009 Co-editor of the "Swiss Journal of Criminal Law" (2009-2019 co-editor)
- since 2015 Member of the Board of the Swiss Criminal Society
Prof. Dr. iur. Wolfgang Wohlers
Fields of Studies
- Criminal Law, General Part / Special Part
- Subsidiary criminal law (focus: Road traffic law, narcotics law, criminal law for foreigners)
- Criminal procedural law (focus: Rights of the defence of the accused person; criminal defence as an institution; prohibition of use of evidence)
Fields of Research
- General and Special Part of Criminal Law (Hand Commentary on the Swiss Criminal Code, 4th edition to be published in 2020 [5th edition in preparation]; essay projects on Swiss and German law)
- Challenges of criminal law by autonomous vehicles (SNF project)
- The dissolution of the anthropocentric orientation of criminal law: criminal liability of associations and/or intelligent agents
- Road traffic criminal law (essay projects)
- Financial market offences (handbook article to be published in 2020; various commentaries, partly completed and partly in preparation)
- Prohibitions on the exploitation of evidence in Swiss and German law (comments on the German and Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure [completed; new editions in preparation]; essay projects)
- The law of criminal defence (commentary on the German Code of Criminal Procedure [completed; new edition in preparation]; essay projects on Swiss and German law)
- The Institute of Public Prosecutors (Commentary on German Law [completed; new edition in preparation]; essay projects)