Eric Hilgendorf

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Full Name	Eric Hilgendorf
Occupation	Jurist
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1960(1960-12-03)
Age	64
Country	Germany
Birth City	Stuttgart
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Eric Hilgendorf Biography

Eric Hilgendorf is one of the most popular and richest Jurist who was born on December 3, 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany. Eric Andreas Hilgendorf (born 3 December 1960 in Stuttgart) is an German lawyer and professor. He is also a a legal philosopher. He is currently a professor as a professor at the University of Wurzburg, serving as Director in the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Theory as well as Information and Computer Science Law. Hilgendorf is among Germany’s most influential researchers in the area of criminal law with a particular concentration on IT law, artificial law and intelligence.

In the year 2010, Hilgendorf established Hilgendorf founded the “Forschungsstelle Robotrecht”, a recognized research center that addresses legal issues relating with autonomous technology in the field of industrial processes, transportation and personal life. Concerning autonomous cars it is a matter of the liability of civil as well as criminal, the protection of privacy and registration for roads. Since 2013, he’s been in charge of the pan-European law research group for AdaptIVe which is a research project that studies autonomous vehicles’ development. In 2016 Hilgendorf was appointed as a member of the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt to sit on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving.. In 2019, Hilgendorf has been Co-Director of the newly established Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (BIDT) located in Munich. In addition, he is a member of the European High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.

In 2013, Hilgendorf was appointed visiting professor at the Law Faculty of the Peking University. He was given the title of honorary professor. Since 2018, he is member of the “Global Faculty” of Peking University Law School. In the same year. he received an honorary professorship from Renmin University Law School. In 2014, he was a guest professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Among other distinctions, Hilgendorf is a member of the Association of Criminal Law Teachers and the European Society for Analytic Philosophy, a correspondent of the Hans Kelsen Society in Vienna, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Giordano Bruno Foundation. He has been called upon several times to give counsel to the German Parliament and Federal government on matters of criminal law, medical law, and Internet crime. Since 2014, Hilgendorf has been serving as co-editor of the renowned JuristenZeitung.

Hilgendorf’s primary areas of focus include medical law, computer as well as Internet criminal law in addition to law and technology as well as comparative law. He also participates in the field of legal foundations, which includes work in the fields of legal philosophy, legal theory bioethics and history of legal thinking as well as the historical development of criminal law and human rights. He is a member of the Pioneers of E-Learning in Jurisprudence . He also between 2005 and 2009, was an active member of the Commission on Virtual Higher Education in Bavaria.

Eric Hilgendorf Net Worth

Eric Hilgendorf is one of the richest Jurist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eric Hilgendorf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After finishing the high school of Ansbach in the year 1980, Hilgendorf was accepted into his first year at the University of Tubingen where he took classes in philosophy Modern history, religion studies as well as law. He graduated with a BA/MA with a focus on philosophy and history , culminating in the completion of his master’s thesis focused on “History of the Parliamentary Freedom of Speech in Germany.” Following that, he completed the PhD research in Philosophy in the year 1990, with research of “Argumentation in Jurisprudence,” and was granted the second PhD in the area of Law with his dissertation titled “Criminal Production Liability in the Society of Risk.” In 1997, he completed his dissertation on habilitation with focus on criminal law, criminal procedure and legal philosophy, with his work “On the Distinction of Factual Statements and Value Judgments in Criminal Law.”

After receiving his degree, Hilgendorf taught as an associate instructor of the field of criminal law at University of Konstanz from 1997 until 2001, and was as the Dean of the University from 1999 to 2001. Since 2001, he taught at the Julius Maxilian University of Wurzburg. He was appointed the position of Chair in the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law. He was Dean of the Law Faculty from October 2010 until September 2012.

He is involved in the field of legal development through his partnerships with universities in Turkey, the Caucasus (mainly Azerbaijan), and East Asia (China, Korea and Japan), for example forming cooperative relations with Peking University Law School. In 2010, he and Professor Genlin Liang of the Peking University of China founded the Chinese-German Federation of Criminal Law Professors (CDSV), whose goal it is to promote the academic exchange between the two countries. Meanwhile, the CDSV is considered to be one of the most important academic platforms for academic cooperation in criminal law between Germany and China.

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