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Eric Hilgendorf: Criminal Law Legislation and Empiricism
Eric Hilgendorf: Criminal Law Legislation and Empiricism
Date：2025-01-07
Eric Hilgendorf: Criminal Law Legislation and Empiricism
On September 16, 2024, Professor Eric Hilgendorf, University of Wuerzburg Professor and PKU Law Global Faculty Professor, delivered a lecture titled “Criminal Law Legislation and Empiricism,” exploring the role of empirical sciences in shaping criminal law. Using examples from Germany and China, he demonstrated how disciplines such as legal statistics, the sociology of law, and criminology contribute to setting legislative goals, assessing feasibility and necessity, evaluating the effectiveness of criminal law provisions, and guiding legal amendments. He emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary, evidence-based approaches in criminal legislation.
【Speaker Profile】
Professor Eric Hilgendorf holds a degree in Philosophy, Modern History, and Law from the University of Tübingen (BA/MA equivalent). Since 2013, he is head of the pan-European legal research group of AdaptIVe. In 2016, he was appointed by Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt to serve on the German government's Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving. Since 2019, Hilgendorf is Co-Director of the newly founded Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (BIDT). Moreover, he is member of the European High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Some of his important works include Medical Criminal Law (2019), Handbook of German Criminal Law (2018), Casebook on Criminal Law: General and Specific Sections (2008).
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