Dr iur. Florian Slogsnat deals in his criminal law dissertation "Rechtfertigender Notstand im demokratischen Rechtsstaat. Der Vorrang staatlicher Verfahren bei § 34 StGB" ("The Priority of State Proceedings in Section 34 of the German Criminal Code") deals with the tension between private and state powers in situations of danger and conflict: Which conflicts may citizens resolve "on their own" or for which is this reserved to the state? The focus is on Section 34 of the German Criminal Code (StGB), which considers an act to be justified and therefore exempt from punishment if it was necessary and appropriate to avert a danger and thereby protect a higher-ranking interest. However, where state institutions already offer solutions, the question arises as to who is responsible for averting danger - the individual or the state. In his work, Florian Slogsnat incorporates legal and state philosophy, democratic, procedural and fundamental rights theory as well as constitutional, administrative and procedural law. On this basis, he develops practical solutions for specific individual cases of a justifiable state of emergency and thus explores the boundaries between civil courage and state responsibility.
His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr Tatjana H?rnle, M.A. (Rutgers), Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (MPI) in Freiburg im Breisgau and Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (HU). The second reviewer was Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Luís Greco, LL.M., Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Foreign Criminal Law and Criminal Law Theory at the HU.
Florian Slogsnat studied law at the University of Konstanz and wrote his doctoral thesis, for which he received his doctorate from the HU Faculty of Law, at the MPI in Freiburg. He then completed his legal traineeship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart. He will return to the MPI as a PostDoc in 2026.
Tiburtius Prize
The Landeskonferenz der Rektor*innen und Pr?sident*innen der Berliner 金贝棋牌n (LKRP) awards three prizes annually as well as three additional recognition prizes to doctoral students at Berlin universities for outstanding dissertations and three prizes to graduates of Berlin universities of applied sciences for outstanding master's theses. The prize is named after Professor Joachim Tiburtius, who was Senator for Public Education in Berlin from 1951 to 1963. The prizes are endowed with 500 to 4,000 euros, depending on the category. The award ceremony will take place on 1 December 2025 at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin.
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