Tatjana Hörnle#
| Membership Number: | 5560 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://csl.mpg.de/de/personen/tatjana-hoernle |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since June 2019 Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg
- July 2009 to September 2019 Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, chair for criminal law, criminal procedure, legal philosophy, and comparative law
- 2004 to 2009 Professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum; chair for criminal law, criminal procedure, and legal philosophy
- 1999-2003 Habilitation funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1993 to 1999 Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Bernd Schünemann at the Institute for Legal Philosophy and Legal Informatics, University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Foundations of criminal law
- Theories of punishment and criminalisation
- Attribution of responsibility, role of the victim
- Role of criminal law in times of socio-cultural change
- Sexual offenses, with emphasis on reform processes and comparative law
Honours and Awards
- Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Corresponding member, Academy of Sciences and Literature/Mainz
