How is it possible to acquire property rights for illegally possessed items (that are also illegal to acquire)? What sense does it make to defend such rights? And should they be justifiable in criminal law? The answers to these questions can only be found by dealing with far more fundamental questions of criminal law and property theory.

Sören Lichtenthäler investigates the extent to which things it is unlawful to possess can nevertheless be suitable objects of crimes against property or assets. In contrast to the well-known dispute in Germany as to whether, for example, the possession of stolen goods might be protected by criminal law, it is the allocation or assignability of the unlawfully possessed objects themselves that is problematic here. How is it possible to acquire property rights for illegally possessed items (that are also illegal to acquire)? What sense does it make to defend such rights? And should they be justifiable in criminal law? The answers to these questions can only be found by dealing with far more fundamental questions of criminal law and property theory.

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Geboren 1991; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Mainz; 2016 Erste juristische Prüfung; Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Strafrecht und Strafprozessrecht der Universität Mainz; seit 2020 Rechtsreferendar am LG Wiesbaden (OLG-Bezirk Frankfurt a.M.); 2020 Promotion.