Christoph Burchard

Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard, LL.M. (NYU), holds the Chair for German, European, and International Criminal Law and Procedure, Comparative Law, and Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. His research and teaching focus on the constitutional dimensions of criminal justice, the internationalization and Europeanization of criminal law, and the impact of digital transformation on legal systems.

• Key research themes include comparative constitutional criminal law, normative orders in digital societies, therapeutic criminal justice, and critical computational studies.
• He founded the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) and leads projects like Legal Argument Mining and ConTrust.

His recent publications analyze AI's challenges to criminal law, the political foundations of punishment, climate criminal law critiques, and the evolution of transnational legal cooperation. He teaches courses on AI and criminal justice, international criminal law, and digital evidence.

• Collaborations include the Anglo-German Dialogue on Constitutional Criminal Law and the European Public Prosecutor's Office commentary.
• He supervises PhD research in foundational criminal law topics, requiring high academic performance and comparative approaches.