Walter Perron

Biography

Born 1956 in Worms / Rhine Study and legal training 1975-1976, 1977-1981 Studied law at the universities of Mannheim and Freiburg, first state examination 1983 Second state examination in Stuttgart Scientific training 1981 - 1983 Research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law in Freiburg 1984 - 1986 doctoral student with doctoral thesis Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law, doctorate at the Law Faculty of Freiburg, Faculty of Law 12/1986 1987 - 1993 Research Assistant University of Freiburg (LS Eser) and Speaker Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law May to November 1989 Research stay at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, funded by MPG 1993 Habilitation at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in the subjects "German and foreign criminal law and criminal procedural law as well as criminology" Working as a university lecturer SS 1993 - SS94 Professorship Representations Universities of Tübingen, Konstanz 1994 - 1995 University professor (C 3) for criminal law and secondary areas at the University of Konstanz 1995 - 2003 University professor (C 4) for German and foreign criminal law and criminal law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2003, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Dept. 3 (German and Foreign Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings), since 2003 professor (C 4) of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Comparative Criminal Law at the Albert Ludwigs-University Freiburg, 2004 - 2006 Prodekan of the Faculty of Law 2006 - 2008 Dean of the Faculty of Law  

Research Interest

His current research focuses on Security has advanced to one of the hottest topics in modern societies. Innovative technologies while beneficial on the one hand, causes increasing concerns of privacy violations. Moreover, economic, social and political transformation processes.