Prof. Dr. Michael Lindemann

Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure,and Criminology (University of Bielefeld) Of Counsel

Tel: +49 (0)89 51 61 890 – 0 Fax: +49 (0)89 51 61 890 – 19

Michael serves as Of Counsel in medical and white-collar criminal law as well as in healthcare compliance. In these areas, he also acts as defense counsel. He holds the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminology at Bielefeld University and currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Law. His research focuses include medical and white-collar criminal law, corporate and healthcare criminology, and healthcare compliance. He is the founder and academic coordinator of the Bielefeld Center for Healthcare Compliance (BCHC), which conducts research projects and continuing education programs on various aspects of compliance management in the healthcare sector. In addition, Michael is a member of the editorial board and co-editor of the Journal of Medical Criminal Law (medstra) and serves as head of the Confidentiality Office for Organ Transplantation, a joint body established by the German Medical Association (BÄK), the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-SV), and the German Hospital Federation (DKG).

Curriculum Vitae

1994 – 1999

Legal studies at Bielefeld University

2002 – 2004

Legal clerkship (Referendariat) in Wuppertal, Düsseldorf und 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)

2003

Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) conferred by the Faculty of Law, Bielefeld University

2004 – 2006

Research Associate at the Institute for Empirical Legal Studies and Criminal Policy (now the Institute for Empirical Legal Studies and Legal Policy) at Bielefeld University, in the research project “Public Prosecutors’ and Police Investigative Practices in White-Collar Crime Cases”

2006 – 2008

Judicial Research Assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in the chambers of Justice Professor Dr. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff

2008 – 2012

Assistant Professor (fixed-term) in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Chair of Professor Dr. Helmut Frister, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2012

Habilitation and conferment of the venia legendi in criminal law, in particular white-collar and medical criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, and the law of penal enforcement, by the Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2012

Acting Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, White-Collar Crime, and International Criminal Law at the University of Augsburg

2012 – 2014

Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, White-Collar Crime, and Environmental Criminal Law at the University of Augsburg

Since 2014

Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminology at Bielefeld University

2016

Research stay at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Leiden University (Netherlands)

2018 – 2022

Member of the Senate of Bielefeld University

2018

Declination of an offer of a chair at the University of Münster

Since 2023

Of Counsel at GNP Rechtsanwälte, Munich

Since 2023

Dean of the Faculty of Law at Bielefeld University

2024

Declination of an offer of a chair at the University of Bonn

Memberships and Activities

Bielefeld Center for Healthcare Compliance (BCHC) - Coordinator

Institute for Empirical Legal Studies and Legal Policy, Bielefeld University – Executive Director

Confidentiality Office for Transplantation Medicine, established by the German Medical Association (BÄK), the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-SV), and the German Hospital Federation (DKG) – Head

Recht & Psychiatrie (R&P) – Managing Editor

Journal of Medical Criminal Law (medstra) – Editorial Board Member and Co-Editor

Working Group on Alternative Draft Legislation

Strafverteidiger (StV) – Member of the Advisory Board

Society for Interdisciplinary Scientific Criminology (GIWK)

German Criminological Society (KrimG)

European Society of Criminology (ESC)

American Society of Criminology (ASC)