Michael Baumann. Born in 1952, he was professor and doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Frankfurt and taught at the University of Mauncia between 1984 and 1997. Since 1997 he is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Düsseldorf . He is the author of numerous articles and essays and of the books Folgenorientierung und subjektive Verantwortlichkeit and Zweckrationalität und Strafrecht. Argue für ein tatbezogenes Massnahmerecht.