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Jürgen-Peter Graf (born 22 December 1952 in

Oberkirch (Baden) Oberkirch ( Low Alemannic: ''Owerkirch'') is a town in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 12 km North-East of Offenburg and belongs to the Ortenaukreis district. Oberkirch is twinned with Haverfordwest which is a town in Pembrokeshi ...

) is a German lawyer. He became judge of the

German Federal Court of Justice The Federal Court of Justice (german: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) is the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction (''ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit'') in Germany, founded in 1950. It has its seat in Karlsruhe with two panels being situat ...

(''Bundesgerichtshof'') on 5 February 2003. Graf studied law in Freiburg/Breisgau and passed his first legal state examination at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

in 1977, and the second in 1979. From 1980 to 1982 he was assistant lecturer at the University of Freiburg. In 1983 he became a judge in Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany, then a public-prosecutor and then a judge again. From 1988 to 2003 he was one of the federal prosecutors at the German Generalbundesanwalt in Karlsruhe, and 1994 he became a senior federal prosecutor at the office of the Generalbundesanwalt. In 2003 he was appointed Judge at the Federal Supreme Court of Justice in Karlsruhe. His special interests are the matter of

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s on the

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, new types of crime on the internet like

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and

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, the responsibility of

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s and the monitoring of

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1952 births Living people People from Oberkirch (Baden) 20th-century German judges 21st-century German judges Judges of the Federal Court of Justice {{Germany-law-bio-stub