Honorary doctor of the Faculty of Law, the University of Pécs.
Professor Ulrich Sieber began his academic career at the University of Freiburg/ Germany, where he earned his doctoral degree as well. For some time he worked as a private attorney-at-law, and later he completed his habilitation on the relationship between substantive criminal law and criminal procedure. He was a professor at the University of Bayreuth, at the University of Würzburg, where he was dean of the Faculty of Law for a year, and at the University of Munich. Since 2003 he has been the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg.
Prof. Sieber ‘s research and teaching career have flourished since the ‘80s; he is one of the most well-known authorities on organized crime, terrorism, economic crime and cybercrime, as well as on comparative criminal law, European criminal law and international criminal law. He has more than 150 scientific publications, many of which have been translated into foreign languages. The primary focus of his research is the territorial and functional limits of criminal law in the prosecution of new types of transnational and complex crime.
The Criminal Law Department of the Faculty of Law, the University of Pécs and the Department of Criminal Law at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law maintain a more than three decade-long successful scientific cooperation in the framework of which a special German language summer course on Criminal Law is offered every year to young researchers in Central Europe.
Promoter: Dr. Gyula Berke, Dean of the Faculty of Law, the University of Pécs