1978/81 First and Second State Law Examination. 1982–1988 Appointment as Akademischer Rat at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. 1985 Awarded Dr. iur. Erlangen-Nuremberg; 1987 Awarded Dr. iur. habil. (Habilitation) Erlangen-Nürnberg. Awarded »Konrad Hellwig Prize« of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg 1988–1993 Awarded Heisenberg-Scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Representations of professorships in Berlin, Erlangen, Jena and Trier. 1993–2019 Chair for Criminal Law, especially International Criminal Law and Comparative Law, Jurisprudence at the European-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). 1994–1998 Vice-President (Prorektor). 1995–2019 Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the European-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). 1996 Offered the Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Jurisprudence at the University of Rostock (declined). 1998–2002 Vice-President (Prorektor) for the Collegium Polonicum in Slubice/Poland. 2001 Offered the Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Crimes in Economy at the University of Augsburg (declined). 2002–2014 Member of the Steering Committee of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), German Section. 2004 Awarded the »Medal for Merits of the Adam-Mickiewicz-University, Poznań«. 2007/08 Senior Fellow at the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. 2009/10 Member of the Steering Committee and Fellow of a Research-Group at the Centre of interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld. 2011–2015 President of the Academic Senate of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). 2012–2018 Adjunct Professor at the Özyeğin University, Istanbul. Since 2013 Member of the scientific commission »Ethics in Science« of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle-Wittenberg (since 2015 as 2nd speaker, and since 2018 as 1st speaker). 2015 Awarded Dr. h. c. from the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland). Since 2016 Member of the Board of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM) e. V., Göttingen. 2017 Awarded Medal »Universitatis Lodziensis Amico« of the University łódź (Poland). 31.3.2019 Retired. Wintersemester 2019/20 Associate Lecturer for »Logic in Law« at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).