Dr. Jürgen-Peter Graf (born 22 December 1952 in

Oberkirch (Baden) Oberkirch (; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Owerkirch'') is a city in Western Baden-Württemberg, Germany about 12 km North-East of Offenburg and belongs to the Ortenaukreis district. Twin towns Oberkirch is twinned with Haverfor ...

) is a German

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. He became

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of the

German Federal Court of Justice The Federal Court of Justice ( , ) is the highest court of civil and criminal jurisdiction in Germany. Its primary responsibility is the final appellate review of decisions by lower courts for errors of law. While, legally, a decision by the F ...

(''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 ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...

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 in 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 Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart a ...

. 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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