Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law

Main Research:

• Business and economic criminal law
• European and international criminal law
• Law of criminal procedure
• Comparative criminal law

Academic Background:

Marc Engelhart was born in Stuttgart in 1976. After completing his secondary school education (Abitur) at Salier-Gymnasium in Waiblingen in 1996 und his military service as an air-land signaler, he took up the study of law at the University of Freiburg in 1997. In 1999/2000, he spent an academic year at the law faculty of the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). During his studies, Marc Engelhart worked for Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Albin Eser and later at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law as a student assistant. He successfully completed his legal studies with the first state examination in law in early 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he completed his training in the judicial service (Referendariat) at the Freiburg district court (Landgericht Freiburg). As part of this legal apprenticeship, he was also a trainee at the international law department of the German Federal Ministry of Justice (Bundesministerium der Justiz) in Berlin.

From 2003 to 2009, Marc Engelhart held a research position at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, where he became responsible for the German section. He researched and wrote country reports on Germany for the Institute projects Criminal Liability of Leaders of Criminal Groups and Networks and Rethinking European Criminal Justice. In addition, he coordinated the project Judicial Training in China. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich Sieber, he earned his doctorate on Corporate Criminal Liability and Compliance Measures. His doctoral thesis was published under the title Sanktionierung von Unternehmen und Compliance (Responsibility and Sanctioning of Corporations: The Role of Compliance Measures) for which he was distinguished with the Otto Hahn Medal in 2011 and honored with the prize of the Wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Vereinigung (a German economic criminal law association) in 2012.

Marc Engelhart has been a practicing lawyer since 2006. From 2009 to 2011, he worked at an international corporate law firm in Stuttgart, where he specialized in questions of compliance and the corporate responsibility of companies and their leaders. Marc Engelhart returned to the Max Planck Institute in 2012 to accept a position as the head of section for business and economic criminal law. He continues to practice as an independent lawyer in Freiburg.

Publications (selection):

• Engelhart, Marc / Sieber, Ulrich: Strafrechtskodifikation – Eine Analyse des Kodifikationskonzepts und seiner Umsetzung im deutschen Strafrecht –. In: Rechtswissenschaft - Zeitschrift für rechtswissenschaftliche Forschung (RW), 2012, Issue⁄Volume 4, p. 364 - 405.
• Engelhart, Marc: Corporate Criminal Liability and Compliance in Germany. In: Antonio Fiorella / Alfonso Maria Stile (ed(s).): Corporate Criminal Liability and Compliance Programs. Napoli, Jovene Editore, 2012, p. 167 - 206.
• Engelhart, Marc: Unternehmensstrafbarkeit im europäischen und internationalen Recht. In: eucrim, 2012, issue 3, p. 110 – 123.
• Engelhart, Marc: El desarrollo del derecho penal económico en Alemania. In: Ius et Veritas, 2012, Issue⁄Volume 44, p. 324 - 338.
• Engelhart, Marc: Reform der Compliance-Regelungen der United States Sentencing Guidelines. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG), 2011, p. 126 - 129.

• Engelhart, Marc: Sanktionierung von Unternehmen und Compliance – eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse des Straf- und Ordnungswidrigkeitenrechts in Deutschland und den USA. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 889 p., 2010. In addition: Diss.
  2nd, revised und expanded edition, 961 p., 2012.

  Reviews in:
  CCZ Aktuell, issue 4/2011, p. VII (Dr. Simone Kämpfer)
  WiJ (Journal der Wirtschaftsstrafrechtlichen Vereinigung e.V), issue 1/2012, p. 77 – 78 (RA Christian Rosinus).

• Engelhart, Marc: Die neuen Compliance-Anforderungen der BaFin (MaComp). In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP), 2010, p. 1832 - 1840.

• Engelhart, Marc: International Criminal Responsibility of Corporations. In: Burchard, Christoph/Triffterer, Otto/Vogel, Joachim (ed(s).): The Review Conference and the Future of the International Criminal Court. Proceedings of the First AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists in Tübingen, Germany, co-organized by the AIDP YP Committee. Wolters Kluwer/Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2010, p. 175 - 190

  [Translation into Japanese in: The Quarterly Review of Corporation Law and Society 2010, p. 155-177].

• Engelhart, Marc: The Secret Service’s Influence on Criminal Proceedings. In: Wade, Marianne/Almir, Maljević (ed(s).): A War on Terror? The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications. Springer, 2010, p. 505 - 547.
• Engelhart, Marc: Meldepflichtige und meldefreie Geschäftsarten bei Directors’ Dealings (§ 15a WpHG). In: Die Aktiengesellschaft (AG), 2009, p. 856 - 866.
• Engelhart, Marc: Die Sanktionierung von Unternehmen in Deutschland und den USA unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Compliance-Programmen [in Japanese]. In: The Quarterly Review of Corporation Law and Society, 2009, p. 148 - 160.
• Engelhart, Marc / Christoph Burchard: Klausur Strafrecht: Eine Bärenjagd auf Abwegen. In: Juristische Arbeitsblätter (JA), 2009, p. 271 - 279.
• Engelhart, Marc / Christoph Burchard: Examensklausur Strafrecht: Der getäuschte Brandstifter. In: Coester-Waltjen, Dagmar; Ehlers, Dirk; Geppert, Klaus (ed(s).): JURA Juristische Ausbildung, Sonderheft Examensklausurenkurs (3. Auflage). De Gruyter, 2008, p. 56 - 63.
• Engelhart, Marc / Yang Zhou: Case Materials on Judicial Methodology in Criminal Law. In: GTZ (ed(s).): Course Materials on Judicial Methodology (2 Volumes, Chinese/English). Beijing, 2006.
• Engelhart, Marc: Der Weg zum Völkerstrafgesetzbuch - Eine kurze Geschichte des Völkerstrafrechts. In: Juristische Ausbildung (Jura), 2004, p. 734 - 743.

Further information:

• International Conference on Private Commercial Bribery

  Marc Engelhart is co-organisor and chairman of the international conference on private commercial bribery entitled "Black Accounts and Kickback Payments among Private Parties," 16.11.2012 in the Freiburg Max Planck Institute.

• Corporate Crime Project

  Marc Engelhart participated as a speaker and chairperson in the project "Preventing fraud, corruption and bribery committed through legal entities for the purpose of financial and economic gain" by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague.

• German National Merit Foundation

  Marc Engelhart is a regular member of the selection committee of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

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