Klaus Volk is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 jurist, professor at University of Munich and defense lawyer specialized in commercial-law

Commercial law

Commercial law is the body of law that governs business and commercial transactions...

-related criminal cases.

His doctorate thesis at University of Munich 1970 was about philosophy of law.

Among his clients were Josef Ackermann (see Mannesmann Trial), Joachim Zahn

Joachim Zahn

Professor Joachim Zahn was the chairman of Daimler Benz AG between 1971 and 1979.Zahn was the youngest of four sons of a Wuppertal Lawyer. He himself studied law at Tübingen and later obtained a doctorate at Cologne based on a study on the limits of credit insurance...

 and Boris Becker

Boris Becker

Boris Franz Becker is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17...

.

Volk was critical towards the "security measures" of Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Schäuble

Wolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union , currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel....

 against terrorists.

External links

• "The principles of criminal procedure and post-modern society: contradictions and perspectives". Paper delivered at the International Society for the reform of Criminal Law in the Hague, Netherlands, 2003.