Prof. Dr. Osman Isfen
Prorector for Continuing Education, Academic Careers and Social Responsibility
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Prof. Dr. Osman Isfen has held the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Commercial Criminal Law, and International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the FernUniversität in Hagen since August 2016.
After studying law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, he received his doctorate in 2007 from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on the principle of guilt in criminal law. In 2012, he completed his habilitation at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on the application of criminal law. Before his appointment to the FernUniversität, he was a junior professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Ruhr University Bochum from 2009 to 2016.
From 2020 to 2024, he was a member of the Senate of the FernUniversität and from 2024 to 2025, Dean of the Faculty of Law.
Since April 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Osman Isfen is Prorector for Continuing Education, Academic Careers and Social Responsibility at the FernUniversität.
Contact:
Email: osman.isfen
Phone: +49 2331 987-4052
Address: Universitätsstr. 11, 58097 Hagen
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Florian Horstmann
Personal Assistant to the Proector
Email: florian.horstmann
Phone: +49 2331 987-2484
