Johannes Stefan Weigel

Doctoral Researcher

Independent Research Group Criminal Law Theory

j.weigel@csl.mpg.de

Main Focus

Foundations of culpability
Fundamentals and basic issues of criminal liability for risk-taking
History of criminal law

Curriculum Vitae

July 2023–present: Doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (member of Independent Research Group “Criminal Law Theory”).

2023–present: scholarship from the Cusanuswerk doctoral program (Promotionsförderung).

2017–present: student assistant, then research assistant at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law held by Prof. Dr. Uwe Murmann at the University of Göttingen.

2021: First State Exam (Law).

2016–2021: Studied law at the University of Göttingen.

Projects

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Criminalising Carelessness

Heads of project: Philipp-Alexander Hirsch, Johannes Weigel
Can we punish people for crimes they didn’t even know they committed? Ultimately, the answer to this question lies at the core of criminal liability for inadvertent negligence. But legal systems respond very differently. Although most civil law jurisdictions seem to have no problem… more

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The Criminalization of Inadvertent Negligence from a German and an Anglo-American Perspective

Head of project: Johannes Weigel
The criminalization of inadvertent negligence has long been deliberated in German criminal law scholarship, although the debate seems largely to have come to a standstill in recent decades. Today, most scholars defend the existing criminalization by means of a (purely) norm-based allocation of blame. more