Christoph Safferling (Vice-President) (2015–2023)
Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law and Public International Law, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Biography
Christoph Safferling (Dr. jur., LL.M.) is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Law Procedure, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is Director of the Research Unit International Criminal Law at the University. Moreover he is the Whitney R. Harris International Law Fellow of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown N.Y.
Since 2012, he is member of the Independent Academic Commission at the Federal Ministry of Justice for the Critical Study of the National Socialist Past. He has been the speaker of the Founding Commission of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy from 2010-2012.
His main fields of research are: contemporary legal history, international criminal law and the subjective elements of the crime. He has published several articles and books in the field of criminal law, international law and human rights law, inter alia "International Criminal Procedure" in 2012 and "The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law since 1945" in 2006. Professor Safferling is co-editor of the German Law Journal and the Revista Internationale di Diritto Penale. He studied Law in Munich and London and received his doctoral degree at the University of Munich in 1999.