Prof. Dr. Osman Isfen
Vice-President 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 in the Faculty of Law at the FernUniversität in Hagen since August 2016.
He studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, later receiving his doctorate in 2007 from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with a dissertation on the principle of guilt in criminal law. In 2012, he completed a post-doctorate at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on the application of criminal law. From 2009 to 2016, prior to his appointment to the FernUniversität, he served as a junior professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Ruhr University Bochum.
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 1 April 2025, Prof. Dr. Osman Isfen has been the Vice-President 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 Vice-President
Email: florian.horstmann
Phone: +49 2331 987-2484
