Prof. Dr. Christian Becker

Of Counsel

About

Professor Dr Christian Becker holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Philosophy of Law at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

He studied law at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate there in 2008 with a thesis on the general part of criminal law. In 2017, Professor Dr Becker habilitated at Bucerius Law School with a thesis on fundamental questions of criminal property law, in particular on financial loss in cases of fraud and breach of trust. His venia legendi covers the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure law, commercial criminal law, legal theory and legal philosophy. After a temporary professorship in Frankfurt (Oder), Christian Becker was appointed to the Leibniz University of Hanover in December 2017. In 2019, he returned to the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) to take up the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Philosophy of Law.

From the beginning of his academic career, Prof Dr Becker was also active in practice. In addition to working as a criminal defence lawyer in a Hamburg law firm, he was also involved in the preparation of criminal law expert opinions. He is a member of the editorial board of the online journal Höchstrichterliche Rechtsprechung im Strafrecht (HRRS) and a permanent author of the ‘Praxiskommentare’ section in the Neue Zeitschrift für Strafrecht (NStZ). .

In 2020, Professor Dr Becker received the Brandenburg State Teaching Award, for which he was nominated following a suggestion from the participants of his lecture ‘Criminal Law GK I’. He has given lectures in English and also has experience as a lecturer for practice-orientated training courses

Since 01.07.2023 Professor Dr Becker is Of Counsel at Knauer&..


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