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Benno Zabel studied law from 1992 to 1998, as well as philosophy and literature from 1998 to 2001. In 2007 he obtained his PhD. From 2007 to 2014 he worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Leipzig, from 2015 to 2021 as Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Bonn. Since 2021 he's Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law at the University Frankfurt am Main. In 2017 he was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities Law as Culture, in 2018/ 2019 Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg. Since 2018 he's active as Second Chair of the International Association for Philosophy of Law (German section).
Prof. Dr. Klaus Vieweg – Professor für Philosophie, Universität Jena, Forschungsschwerpunkte: Deutscher Idealismus, besonders Hegel; Skeptizismus; praktische Philosophie; Fellowships/Gastprofessuren: Pisa, Seattle, Bochum, Erlangen, Prag, Wien, Siena, Medellin, Kyoto; wichtigste Publikationen: Das Denken der Freiheit. Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (München 2012); Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes (zus. mit W. Welsch; Frankfurt a.M. 2008); Philosophie des Remis. Der junge Hegel und das Gespenst des Skepticismus (München 1999); Skepsis und Freiheit (München 2008); Genius loci – Ansichten großer Philosophen in Text und Bild (Darmstadt 2014).
Eberhard Eichenhofer studied in Tübingen and Saarbrücken, where he also received his doctorate and habilitation. He worked as a research associate at the Federal Social Court and as a research consultant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law. From 1989 he was a professor of civil law and social law at the University of Osnabrück (until 1997) and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg and in 2012 he was a corresponding member of the Scientific Academy in Göttingen. Since 2016 he has been living in Berlin in retirement.
Stephan Kirste studied Law, History and Philosophy in Freiburg i.Br. and received his PhD in 1997. From 2004–2012 he was Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Heidelberg. After he was substitute Professor of several Chairs in Münster and Heidelberg, he accepted the call to a Chair for Public law, European Law and Legal Philosophy at the German Speaking Andrássy University, Budapest in 2009. Since 2012 he has been University Professor at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg.
Michael Pawlik; Doctorate (»Die Reine Rechtslehre und die Rechtstheorie H. L. A. Harts« – »The Pure Theory of Law and the Legal Theory of H. L. A. Hart«) and Habilitation (»Das unerlaubte Verhalten beim Betrug« – »The Unlawful Behavior in Fraud«) at the University of Bonn. LL.M. at the University of Cambridge. From 2000 to 2003 Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Rostock, from 2003 to 2013 Professor at the University of Regensburg, since 2013 Professor at the University of Freiburg. Full Member of the Leopoldina (German National Academy) and of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Corresponding Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts. Holder of multiple Visiting Professorships and Honorary Doctorates.
Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch ist Professor für Philosophie an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig. Seine Forschung liegt auf den Gebieten der Politischen Philosophie, der Sozialphilosophie und der Rechtsphilosophie. Darüber hinaus interessiert sich Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch für die Geschichte und die philosophischen Grundlagen der Ökonomik. Er ist Autor des Buches »›Anerkennung‹ als Prinzip der Kritischen Theorie« (Berlin / New York, de Gruyter, 2011). Zu den von ihm herausgegebenen Schriften gehören Charles Fourier, »Über das weltweite soziale Chaos. Ausgewählte Schriften zur Philosophie und Gesellschaftstheorie« (Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2012), »Karl Marx and the Philosophy of Recognition« (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16, 4, 2013, 679–758) sowie »Die Philosophie des Marktes / The Philosophy of the Market« (Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag, 2016).
