Prof. Dr. Alexander Baur is Director of the Department of Criminology, Juvenile Criminal Law and Penology and holds the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law of Georg August University in Göttingen. He has been Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law since 2025. His research focuses on sanctions and penal law (in particular, corrective measures) and its legal implications, corporate sanctions law in relation to criminal procedure and criminological principles (economic criminology), and general crime prevention law. In addition, he specialises in law-related evaluation research.