Klaus Volk (born 29 April 1944) is a German jurist, professor at

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and

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specialized in commercial-law-related criminal cases. His doctorate thesis at University of Munich 1970 was about

philosophy of law Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political philosophy. It asks questions like "What is law?", "What are the criteria for legal vali ...

. Among his clients were

Josef Ackermann Josef Meinrad Ackermann (born 7 February 1948) is a Swiss banker, former Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus, and former chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank. He has also been a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, th ...

(''see Mannesmann Trial''),

Joachim Zahn Professor Joachim Zahn (born Wuppertal 24 January 1914, died Munich 8 October 2002) 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 late ...

and

Boris Becker Boris Franz Becker (, ; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker was successful from the start of his career, winning the Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17. He ultimately won six Grand Slam singles tit ...

. Volk was critical towards the "security measures" of

Wolfgang Schäuble Wolfgang Schäuble (; born 18 September 1942) is a German lawyer, politician and statesman whose political career has spanned for more than five decades. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he is one of the longest-serving politi ...

against

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

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"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. 1944 births Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich German scholars Living people {{Germany-law-bio-stub